From executive orders fighting “gender ideology” to harmful rhetoric scorning gender-affirming care, President Donald Trump has relentlessly attacked transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming populations since his first day back in the White House in January. In response to this scathing tirade, artist and activist Nan Goldin and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (LLMA) launched a two-week online print sale this morning, June 12, to raise funds for three organizations committed to supporting and protecting self-determined gender identity and expression through legal aid and advocacy, direct cash assistance, and educational programming.
The sale is of five-by-seven-inch prints of two intimate portraits by Goldin: “Jimmy Paulette at Wigstock” (1991) and “Thora with teddy bear” (2020). Both set in New York City, the first captures hairstylist Jimmy Paul (also known as Jimmy Paulette) in a blonde bouffant wig at the outdoor drag festival Wigstock, whereas the second features writer Thora Siemsen in Goldin’s Clinton Hill apartment during the COVID-19 pandemic. The prints are listed for $250 each (you can only buy one of each). The print sale runs through 5pm EST, June 26.
All proceeds from the sale will be distributed among the LLMA, the legal aid organization Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), and the Trans Income Project (TIP), a Louisiana-based nonprofit that provides guaranteed income support to trans people with a focus on sex workers.
“Hundreds of anti-trans bills are threatening trans people’s safety, stability, and health,” Goldin said in a statement. “Transphobia has long plagued legislation and culture, and this print sale centers the needs of trans people, raising funds for organizations directly working with, responding to, and supporting them.”
Since 2023, the United States has seen a surge in anti-trans bills under consideration, including 113 bills that have already passed in 2025. Last month, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would prohibit Medicaid coverage on all gender-affirming care, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and gender transition surgery.
TIP’s Executive Director Natalie Rupp told Hyperallergic in a phone call that these threats to Medicaid will essentially make the organization an insurer for trans people in need of these life-saving medical services. For small grassroots organizations like TIP, which is run by a two-person staff consisting of Rupp and Tobi Jaunzemis, funding from efforts like this print sale will be crucial for them to continue their work.
“ When we talk about taking away trans healthcare, we’re really talking about taking away the right for trans people to exist safely at all,” Rupp said. “This sale couldn’t be at a better time to help us secure the safety and the right to exist for trans people in Louisiana.”
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