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What is The Trans Rights Readathon?
The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. This year’s Trans Rights Readathon will take place from Tuesday, March 17 to Tuesday, March 31, 2026.
Founded by author Sim Kern and initially started as a small movement, the Trans Rights Readathon raised over $234,000 dollars for trans supporting organizations in 2023 -- with 2,669 participants reading 7,800 books across 43 countries.
HOW DOES THE READATHON WORK?
During the two weeks of the readathon (March 17-31), read trans* books and donate to trans* organizations.
This is a decentralized fundraiser, so how you participate is up to you. You can read 1 book or 20 books. You can donate to a large organization or a personal GoFundMe. We have new plans coming this year, and can't wait to share them with you closer to March.
Call to action: Read, support, review, and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, genderqueer, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and 2Spirit authors and characters.
Make content: Tag the new official @transrightsreadathon accounts on Instagram and Tiktok and @trreadathon on Twitter, and use #transrightsreadathon and #TRR26 when you post.
Donate: We encourage decentralization! Participants are welcome to fundraise for trans aid organizations in their communities. If you don’t know of any organizations near you, suggestions are available on the readathon website.
This year the Readathon is holding an auction, with all proceeds going directly to Point of Pride. PoP provides financial aid towards gender-affirming surgery, hormone replacement therapy/telehealth access, permanent hair removal services, and other types of care. They also provide free chest binders and femme shapewear garments to trans people who cannot afford them.
You can also check out the Readathon's resources page for the links to the Storygraph challenge, the indie book database and the trans book masterlist!
MY BOOKS
I have one book that I published as Margherita that is perfect for the readathon. Tears in the Water is a new adult sports romance between a nonbinary mc (going through the gender journey during the story) and a trans man love interest. It also has a French and Spanish translation.
As for my Robin titles, I currently have 6 adult titles with trans+ rep:
In the Care of Magic (agender mc)
Blessed by the Cupid Distribution System (trans woman mc) - this also has an Italian translation
Fan Service (trans man mc)
Dangerous Devotion (genderfluid god)
Monster Mixer Volume One (trans man & trans woman - MCs in different stories)
Love at Orc's Sight (T4T trans men)
OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS
If you’re an audiobook listener, I made two playlists on Libro, one for fiction books and the other for nonfiction books, written by Trans+, 2Spirit, Indigiqueer and Gender-Nonconforming Authors.
If audiobooks are not your thing (or you want to find new books in general), then I have more recommendations for you…
During moments like this, people tend to go for the books they’ve seen around plenty of times already, but let’s not forget about indie books and authors. Here’s a list of trans indie authors you can support during the readathon and during the rest of the year:
About Margherita
Margherita is a reader and indie author from Italy. Xe used to publish under xyr real name, but now only publishes as Robin Jo Margaret for fantasy and monster romances, and R.J. Margaret for (human) contemporary stories.
If you want to support Margherita, you can leave xem a tip on Ko-fi, or buy books via xyr affiliate links on libro(.)fm and bookshop(.)org