Thanks for 1 Year + Announcements & AMA!

A note from me, a few general updates, and ask me anything!

Hey, this is Aleksandra.

I’ll be honest: when I wrote my first post on Transitics exactly 1 year ago, I wasn’t exactly sure what I wanted it to be—or why I was even writing in the first place. Was it a blog? Was it a place for me to vent? Was it a place for me to break down things for the community I care about? One thing’s certain: I never would have imagined that Transitics would turn into full-fledged independent journalism.

Seriously, this past year has been far beyond anything I could’ve ever dreamed of. Knowing my work has helped inform people has made me unbelievably happy, and it makes the amount of time I spend doing this—trust me, it’s more than you’d think—worth it. And over the last few months, Transitics has become the number one priority in my life; I’ve even begun thinking of it as my job! While I don’t actually get paid at the moment, I see it like this: I work for you. Thankfully, being a student allows me to get away with that.

I’ve been asked quite a few times for ways you can support my work, and it’s actually fairly easy: share it, share it, share it. Because Transitics is still a relatively small publication, I often rely on you to spread my work to the people that need to see it. So, if you think a story of mine is important, others probably will too. I cannot tell you how much of a difference it makes.

That said, a number of you have pledged me subscriptions, and I will be accepting those when I get my banking stuff sorted out (legal name changes are complicated). Thanks to all of you who want to support me financially! However, I do want to make one thing clear: as a strong believer in access to information, Transitics will always be 100% free. I hate paywalls and I definitely don’t do paywalls. Really, these subscriptions will just be a way for you to sustain my work, especially once I graduate.

Over the past year, Transitics has developed the most up-to-date trans policy tracker out there, found loopholes in many anti-trans policies, forced a response from the State Department over trans people’s passports, discovered Medicaid & ID policies that had gone unnoticed for years, spoken with politicians and journalists, been the first to expose 2 of the 3 states known to be making lists of trans people, and, the one I care about the most, played a key role in highlighting the horrific treatment of trans people in prisons.

And this is only the beginning.

So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much for a wonderful first year.

Aleksandra

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Now for some general announcements!

Let’s start with a big one: Transitics is now on TikTok and Bluesky! Follow me on TikTok if you want to see short-ish explainer videos, and follow me on Bluesky if you want to see me occasionally add a bit of commentary to both trans and non-trans news. I’m very bad at managing social media, so both are obviously a work in progress—but I’m excited to be getting them off the ground.

Also, Transitics hit 3,000 subscribers last week! This is a huge milestone (and came less than a month after hitting 2,000), and I couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you!

Lastly, I want to take this opportunity to tell you all a bit more about me, so I’ll open the floor up to an AMA! I have notifications enabled for the comments on this post, and I’ll be answering your questions as I see them come in. Feel free to ask me as much as you want about pretty much anything!