Field Guides

This guide critiques influencer culture within trans activism, distinguishing between influencers and leaders, and outlining the pitfalls of clout-driven organizing. It offers practices for anti-influencer leadership, such as centering collective work, transparency, and rotating leadership, aimed at trans organizers and community members.

This guide provides practical advice for surviving arrest and detention, covering legal rights, police tactics, mental scripts, and preparation strategies. It is intended for trans people and other marginalized groups facing heightened risks of state repression.

This toolkit provides guidance for building and sustaining trans community projects, covering foundational principles, organizational structures, practical activities like mutual aid and health clinics, and warning signs of harmful dynamics. It is intended for trans people and groups in the United States working on mutual aid, organizing, or community care.

This guide provides a comprehensive framework for decentralized, trans-led resistance and mutual defense, covering organizational structure, operational planning, security protocols, mutual aid, propaganda, training, and evaluation. It is intended for trans communities and allied groups organizing under conditions of state repression or societal collapse.

This field guide provides counter-surveillance tactics for evading state, corporate, and private surveillance systems in 2025. It covers visual disruption of facial recognition, vehicle and transit obfuscation, digital hygiene practices, and behavioral techniques for becoming unreadable to tracking technologies. It is intended for trans people, organizers, and other targeted individuals seeking to protect themselves from profiling and monitoring.

This guide provides tactics for using misinformation and deception in trans-led resistance, including creating ghost operatives, decoy cells, and digital data pollution to confuse surveillance and protect real networks. It covers ethical boundaries, operational rules, and tools, with examples from 2024-2025 queer resistance actions.

This guide provides tactical strategies for trans individuals and communities facing state violence, fascist attacks, and organized hate. It covers physical security, digital security, community protection, counter-surveillance, and includes appendices with checklists and legal resources.

This guide provides digital security strategies for trans activists, covering device encryption, secure messaging, VPNs, Tor, file encryption, metadata stripping, and protest-specific preparations. It includes a trusted tools list and an emergency checklist for before, during, and after protests.

This guide provides tactical survival strategies for disabled transgender individuals in hostile environments, covering high-risk disabilities such as epilepsy, autism, mobility impairments, and chronic illnesses. It includes threat assessments, protection strategies, and guidance on navigating medical and legal systems, as well as building mutual aid networks.

This guide provides tactics for disrupting police operations during protests, including anti-kettling methods, snatch squad resistance, communication disruption, surveillance dodging, and formation confusion. It is intended for protest participants and community defense groups seeking to resist state control through collective coordination and non-violent interference.

This guide provides practical strategies for economic resistance against authoritarian governance, covering principles like non-cooperation, mutual aid, targeted divestment, financial anonymity, and community education. It includes case studies from Iran, Myanmar, Ukraine, the US, and Palestine, and offers region-specific tactics for North America in 2025, such as boycotts, reinvestment, financial privacy tools, labor disruption, barter systems, and digital mutual aid infrastructure. It is intended for individuals, collectives, and networks seeking to build economic sovereignty and resilience.

This guide provides survival strategies for transgender individuals facing sudden withdrawal from HRT, anti-seizure medications, antipsychotics, or street drugs during emergency escapes. It covers managing physical and psychological symptoms, DIY and black market HRT options, rationing techniques, dietary support, and psychological coping strategies, along with resources for verified medical information.

This guide explains how echo chambers and exclusionary dynamics can develop within trans and queer spaces, offering historical examples and practical tools for recognizing and resisting these patterns. It is intended for community members, organizers, and groups seeking to build more accountable, inclusive, and sustainable movements.

This guide provides tactical strategies for direct action, defense, and building parallel power for trans resistance movements. It covers street-level tactics, digital resistance, personal and space defense, and creating alternative infrastructures, with case studies and resources for organizers.

This guide provides practical strategies for transgender individuals considering leaving the United States, covering escape preparation, border-crossing routes, asylum processes, and building support networks. It is intended for trans people facing legal restrictions, surveillance, or violence, offering tactical advice on documentation, finances, health, and digital security.

This guide provides initial steps and a glossary for newly politicized transgender individuals, covering grounding techniques, mutual aid, digital security, go bags, and collective organizing. It explains the decentralized, cell-based structure of the Trans Army movement and defines key terms like OpSec, mutual aid, and care webs.

This guide provides tactical frameworks for asymmetric resistance, including low-visibility actions, direct disruption, and guerrilla cell models, adapted for urban and rural environments. It draws on historical resistance movements and emphasizes ethics, community defense, and survival strategies for trans individuals in the U.S.

This guide addresses stress management for transgender individuals in the U.S., framing stress as a systemic response to political and social oppression. It offers tactical strategies for daily coping, psychological countermeasures, support networks, long-term resilience building, and emergency interventions, emphasizing rest as a form of resistance.

This guide focuses on mental health as a form of resistance, offering practical tools for trauma literacy, crisis planning, and mutual mental aid. It is intended for marginalized individuals, particularly trans and neurodivergent people, seeking accessible, non-state-based care strategies. The guide includes daily routines, crisis tools like WRAP plans and sensory kits, and guidance for forming peer support pods.

This toolkit provides emergency protocols for rapid response to ICE presence, raids, or detentions involving trans, undocumented, or criminalized community members. It includes immediate action checklists, raid zone setup, post-raid response steps, and tools for legal protection and neighborhood-level strategy, designed for local defense crews, mutual aid teams, and accomplices.

This guide addresses risks posed by ICE to transgender individuals, particularly migrants and people of color, covering surveillance, detention conditions, raids, and deportation. It provides mitigation strategies including know-your-rights training, document preparation, digital security, mutual aid defense infrastructure, and community rapid response, along with resources and long-term advocacy goals.

This guide provides strategies for making protests accessible and inclusive, centering disabled, neurodivergent, undocumented, and other marginalized communities. It covers planning for access, creating inclusive roles, building community safety teams, and fostering an anti-carceral culture.

This guide provides a threat assessment for trans and marginalized communities in the U.S. in 2025, including regional risk levels, types of threats, and a personal risk audit. It offers mitigation strategies such as OpSec, legal preparedness, and community resilience planning.

This guide provides a state-by-state risk assessment for the United States, categorizing each state and territory by threat level (Very High to Low) based on legislative, social, environmental, and paramilitary factors. It includes tactical applications for relocation, protest planning, travel, and mutual aid coordination, along with a planning matrix for community defense. It is intended for marginalized individuals and groups, particularly LGBTQ+ communities, for strategic decision-making and survival planning.

This guide provides protocols for detecting and preventing infiltration in activist and resistance spaces, covering tactics used by law enforcement and far-right operatives, vetting processes, digital and IRL security measures, and strategies for distinguishing conflict from infiltration. It is intended for community organizers and mutual aid groups seeking to maintain trust and security without resorting to paranoia.

This guide provides strategies and tactics for trans-led movements to conduct information warfare, including narrative hijacking, disinformation disruption, memetic warfare, and decentralized media. It covers tools for encrypted communication, content creation, and counter-censorship practices, aimed at community organizers and activists.

This guide provides tactics for individuals working within institutions such as law enforcement, military, healthcare, education, and bureaucracy to resist oppressive systems from the inside. It covers methods for slowing operations, diverting resources, protecting vulnerable people, and preparing for whistleblowing, with historical examples and safety strategies.

This guide provides legal preparedness information for transgender individuals, covering protest rights, police interactions, arrest procedures, documentation of police abuse, and resources for bail and legal support. It is intended for trans organizers, protestors, and mutual aid workers in the U.S.

This guide outlines strategies for establishing military alliances to secure intelligence, logistics, and tactical support for anti-fascist objectives. It covers phases of engagement, intelligence gathering, logistics management, training, crisis response, and includes case studies and potential allied militaries.

This guide provides a step-by-step process for transgender individuals and allies to identify, evaluate, and partner with NGOs for support such as legal aid, healthcare, housing, and advocacy. It covers assessing personal needs, researching organizations, verifying credibility, establishing contact, maintaining relationships, and overcoming common challenges, with resources and references included.

This guide provides a strategic blueprint for increasing trans political power, covering understanding power structures, identifying key players, voter engagement, grassroots organizing, and coalition building. It is designed for trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming individuals and communities seeking to build long-term political influence and resist authoritarian threats.

This guide provides ethical tactics for stress-testing loyalty and trust within activist pods, including low-, mid-, and high-stakes deception scenarios, interpretation of results, and best practices for documentation and exit. It is intended for movement builders, pod organizers, and mutual aid strategists seeking to identify infiltration and strengthen group cohesion without fostering paranoia.

This guide outlines the foundational principles, ethics, and operational strategies for the Trans Army movement, emphasizing intergenerational power, non-negotiable liberation values, and the centering of marginalized trans communities. It is intended for organizers and community members seeking a disciplined framework for building autonomous infrastructure and long-term movement power.

This guide provides ethical reporting and narrative strategies for media professionals, educators, and advocates to promote trans-affirming storytelling. It covers core principles, language guidelines, visual standards, interview protocols, crisis coverage, and tactics for countering disinformation, with a focus on centering marginalized trans voices.

This guide analyzes common methods used by oppressive regimes to stifle dissent and repress resistance, covering legal, policing, economic, psychological, digital, narrative, and divisive tactics. It is intended for activists, organizers, and community members seeking to understand and counter systemic repression.

This guide presents the mission statement of Trans Army, a decentralized concept for trans liberation and mutual aid, drawing on historical resistance movements and figures. It outlines the group's origins, guiding principles, and examples of community defense, art, and knowledge sharing, emphasizing survival and resistance against fascism and anti-trans legislation.

This guide analyzes the historical methods of the CIA, KGB, and Mossad, covering shared tactics such as assassination, informant recruitment, false flag operations, propaganda, surveillance, and psychological warfare. It includes case studies and technological legacies, and offers counterstrategies for modern resistance movements.

This guide provides tactical travel and navigation strategies for transgender individuals in hostile environments, covering preparation, gear, modes of transport, digital safety, safe houses, and interactions with law enforcement. It is intended for trans people migrating or traveling under surveillance or threat.

This guide provides a tactical manual for building mutual aid networks and bail funds for trans communities facing state violence. It covers forming groups, fundraising, organizing bail funds, digital security, responding to repression, and post-release support, with a focus on trans-specific needs and long-term resilience.

This guide outlines tactics for narrative warfare, including story-based insurgency, psychological disruption, and cultural reclamation. It covers core principles, narrative types, disruption tactics, deployment channels, linguistic tools, and tactical roles for creating and spreading counter-narratives against oppressive regimes.

This guide provides tactics for narrative warfare, including symbol subversion, memetic warfare, rumor engineering, psychic overload, narrative seeding, and language weaponization, aimed at delegitimizing state authority. It is intended for activists and protesters seeking to use humor, satire, and psychological tactics in resistance efforts.

This guide provides survival and mutual-aid tactics for disabled and neurodivergent people facing ableism, state violence, and crisis situations. It covers risk assessment, disability-centered go-kits, communication access tools, mental health crisis planning, and collective access strategies for community defense.

This guide offers practical advice for transgender community leaders, focusing on self-assessment, core responsibilities, common pitfalls, and sustainable practices. It emphasizes building infrastructure, distributing power, and creating lasting systems over personal recognition.

This guide provides operational security (OpSec) tactics for trans activists and organizers, covering encrypted communications, digital identity protection, secure organizing structures, counter-surveillance measures, physical security, and emergency protocols. It is intended for trans mutual aid crews and organizers facing surveillance and repression.

This guide provides strategies for political disruption in the U.S., covering electoral tactics, non-electoral direct action, and media interventions. It is intended for street organizers, digital agitators, and grassroots builders seeking to resist authoritarianism and support marginalized communities.

This guide provides protest safety strategies for transgender individuals, focusing on preparation, clothing, safety kits, navigation, police interaction, chemical weapon protection, arrest management, and post-protest decompression. It is designed for trans protesters, especially those who are BIPOC, disabled, undocumented, or visibly queer, and includes resources for legal aid and mutual aid.

This guide provides a rapid-response toolkit for LGBTQ+ individuals in crisis, covering need identification, emergency contacts, LGBTQ+ support organizations, fundraising, secure transport, essential supplies, monitoring, and long-term safety planning. It is designed for on-the-ground use by trans and queer communities facing emergencies.

This guide provides trans organizers with strategies to recognize and counter state surveillance, infiltration, and legal repression. It covers physical and digital surveillance detection, operational security, handling police encounters, legal defense preparation, and crisis response, along with trusted resources for support.

This guide provides tactical strategies for marginalized communities facing state repression, covering legal evasion, surveillance countermeasures, economic mutual aid, psychological resilience, digital security, narrative warfare, and internal security. It is intended for trans, disabled, undocumented, neurodivergent, and poor individuals and groups seeking to survive and resist authoritarian suppression.

This guide provides a philosophical and tactical framework for strategic lawbreaking as a form of resistance against oppressive regimes, aimed at trans people and allies. It covers categories of necessary illegality, historical case studies, and operational checklists for action teams.

This guide provides a 2025 overview of U.S. states considered safe for transgender individuals, including top-ranked sanctuary states, partial sanctuaries, and caution zones. It covers legal shield laws, migration tips, safe cities, and resources for relocation and mutual aid, aimed at trans people planning to move or seek refuge.

This guide provides strategies and tools for secure communication, emphasizing their importance for trans individuals and activists facing surveillance and censorship. It covers the philosophy of encrypted communication, practical methods, and legal considerations, aiming to empower communities to protect their privacy and autonomy.

This guide provides tactical survival strategies for transgender individuals under oppressive regimes, covering identity and document strategies, healthcare access under bans, safety tactics, travel, economic survival, community defense, digital hygiene, psychological resilience, and actions if detained. It is intended for trans people and their allies seeking practical, decentralized mutual aid and resistance methods.

This guide outlines a decentralized, multi-layered insurgency strategy for trans-led resistance against authoritarian governance, covering narrative control, institutional sabotage, operational infrastructure, destabilization tactics, and long-term dismantling of political opposition. It is intended for trans and queer communities seeking to build parallel power structures and mutual aid networks.

This guide provides practical strategies for trans individuals and allies to survive and resist oppressive regimes, drawing on historical examples of trans resistance and outlining principles for modern organizing, mutual aid, and digital security.

This guide provides practical safety and survival strategies for trans people in the UK, covering legal rights, documentation, healthcare access, housing, employment, digital security, mutual aid, and exit planning. It is written for trans individuals, particularly those facing multiple marginalization, and emphasizes community care and resistance.

This guide provides a state-by-state overview of legal threats, support organizations, mutual aid networks, and safety strategies for transgender people in the United States during the Trump era. It covers each state's legal landscape, local resources, and tactical advice for survival, including relocation options and digital security.

This guide provides trauma-informed strategies for trans and queer activists to recover from the emotional and physical toll of direct action, including self-care protocols, community support models, and resources for long-term healing.

This guide explains the methods, tactics, and technologies used by U.S. intelligence agencies to surveil and disrupt dissent, with a focus on how they target activists and marginalized communities. It includes case studies and counter-tactics for organizers to resist surveillance and infiltration.

This guide provides a blueprint for forming local Trans Army cells, covering structure, recruitment, culture, safety, and operations. It outlines principles, steps for creating cells, defining roles, mapping territory, building infrastructure, and maintaining operational security.

This guide analyzes how authoritarian regimes use deliberate incompetence, corruption, and suppression of dissent to maintain control, leading to systemic decay in governance, economies, and public health. It provides case studies and strategic insights for activists, analysts, and resistance groups.