After a year of reflection and deep restoration, TRANScend Retreat returns in 2025 with the theme Homecoming. In a time of devastating losses, political attacks, and vanishing resources, we are choosing to root ourselves in what remains: our relationships, our legacies, and our commitment to collective care.

This year’s theme is both a return and a reclamation—of place, of purpose, of power. As trans people—especially Black, Brown, undocumented, and immigrant trans folks—we continue to face violent rollbacks, surveillance, and systemic erasure. And still, we gather. Still, we dream. Still, we come home to each other.

TRANScend has always been a sacred space where we rest, organize, heal, and build. With renewed vision and a strengthened foundation, we are inviting our community back—to remember what we’ve built, and to imagine what’s next.