| In your own words, please describe how your local food pantry iswelcomingto transgender or gender non-conforming people. |
| • They are very welcoming. Just very nice to everyone. |
| • I believe it’s more of a “what they don’t know won’t hurt them” situation; if they don’t know that I/someone am/is trans or gender-non-conforming, then there isn’t a problem. |
| • I imagine the one at the college I work at is much more welcoming than the religious pantry located nearest me. |
| • It is run by my college, which is accepting to the LGBT community. |
| • They did not care either way or didn’t notice. |
| • We don’t know; my girlfriend and I are both pre-op and stealth (I present female and she presents male in public). |
| • Food Not Bombs is very welcoming |
| • Second Harvest is supported by the UU church, and they support TGNC people. |
| • The food pantry is at my local church (ORUUC) but offers this to anyone in need in the local community. I felt welcoming and like they treated me like they would anyone else that came to them for assistance. |
| In your own words, please describe how your local food pantry isunwelcomingto transgender or gender non-conforming people. |
| • Everybody stares, whispers of “what is that”, “she’s just confused” |
| • We aren’t the normal racist “Christians” that seem to be the majority here. |
| • Hateful angry passive aggressive or just aggressive. Refusing prejudice and making remarks towards the community Spectrum. Often times I met with threats of violence or hateful looks and am treated unfairly among places like the food pantry or food stamp office to a point to where paperwork has been manipulated, dodged, thrown away, or edited |
| • We are surrounded by hate and transphobes |
| • People are required to sit through a church service, and the pastor has spoken against homosexuality, which made me uncomfortable. |
| • Tells us we are going to hell or there’s only two genders and go seek medical assistant |
| • Transgender people not allowed |
| • The area I live in is very bigoted, and the community harbors hate for lgbtqia folks. |
| • I’m in the Bible Belt, they say we do not exist or are mentally challenged |
| • It is Christian based and that tends not to go well for us here. |
| • Tennessee resents people like us. That’s fact. |
| • It’s in a church and not one of the ones I know tends to be lgbt friendly |
| • FISH pantries may be staffed by trans/homophobic volunteers |
| • I haven’t experienced being unwelcome at my local food pantry but I feel unwelcome by most religious based organizations and many organizations in general in this area unless I know they’re LGBTQ friendly and welcoming. |
