The creator of the original trans flag, Monica Helms, has joined a growing cohort of ‘transgender refugees’ who are trying to flee the US due to the rising anti-trans sentiment in the country, caused by inflammatory rhetoric coming out of the White House and its MAGA-aligned media. The couple live in Georgia, a state that has been assessed as ‘high risk’ for transgender people following the nearly three-dozen anti-trans bills that have been introduced there since 2023 (four of which have passed). Helms and her wife, Darlene Wagner, have created a GoFundMe accountt to help facilitate the move. At the time of going to print, they had received 121 donations, totalling S10,656 USD, slightly short of their $12,000 USD target. They plan to move to Costa Rica “to live in a country that is safer than the US is today. We will not abandon our activism in Costa Rica”. Helms created the pink, white and blue trans flag in 1999.
First look inside ChiChiz
10/12/2025
