Title | Posted | Length | Description |
How to be a Trans Ally: The Video | 6/17/15 | 2:50 | Evolve Benton (aka Emotions the Poet) presents a powerful call to action. It is more a case for being an ally than a how to. |
5 Tips for Being an Ally | 11/22/14 | 3:31 | Franchesca Ramsey, a straight, cis-woman, deals some straight talk about being an ally. She is best known as Chescaleigh, a writer, actress and video blogger with over 200,000 subscribers. |
How to be a Trans Ally: Ft. Daniella Carter | 6/19/15 | 4:41 | In talk show format, Raymond Braun conducts a lively interview with Daniella Carter about the importance of allies in her life. Great examples of teachers who made a difference. |
How To be a Good Trans Ally | Ft. Jackson Bird | 8/13/15 | 9:07 | A male transgender student offers tips on some does and don’ts for how he likes to be treated by others. |
10 Ways to be a Trans Ally / Trans-guy Myths | 1/24/14 | 2:50 / 3:00 | In these entertaining, high energy clips, trans man Benton and lesbian Ariel discuss some of the more offensive behaviors and assumptions people make. |
Walking In The Shoes Of The Other (TEDx) | 8/10/15 | 18:10 | Timothy Kurek decided to pretend to be openly gay in his very conservative community for a whole year. It changed his way of thinking about homosexuals and any other person who could be different. |

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How to be a Transgender Ally
Sometimes it is easier to learn from video. Here are some brief clips of people offering tips for being a good ally.
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Tina White
Tina White is the Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Pride Center, in Asheville, North Carolina, and a member of the board of directors for the Human Rights Campaign.
Tina spent 35 years consulting to and working for global corporations. Her specialty was large-scale business transformation: redesigning companies to pursue new strategies and improve performance. She has since shifted her focus to activism, writing and speaking. She speaks and writes on issues of diversity & inclusion, organization transformation, social justice, and personal identity.
Tina is the author of Between Shadow and Sun. She describes her 50-year struggle with gender and her wife's efforts to embrace her revealed identity. She holds an MBA in Strategy, Marketing & Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an AB in Economics from Princeton University. She and Mary live in Asheville, North Carolina.