Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K

Chappell Roan is walking the walk. After advocating for the LGBTQ+ assemblage passim her career, the popular prima has announced a money called the Midwest Princess Project supporting susceptible trans youth.

The quality came successful the signifier of an Instagram post connected Thursday (Oct. 23), with Roan writing, “I americium truthful excited to denote @midwestprincessproject, an enactment we’ve launched to supply enactment and needed resources for trans younker and LGBTQ+ communities!”

“The Midwest Princess Project already raised implicit $400,000 astatine my Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things Pop-Up Shows, and those funds volition beryllium donated to unthinkable organizations making a affirmative interaction for trans younker successful their communities,” she continued. “Outside of transaction fees to big the donation leafage and constricted costs for my squad to efficaciously negociate the project, we person committed to donating each dollar imaginable to the organizations that request it most.”

Among the organizations that person benefitted truthful acold from Roan’s money are the Ali Forney Center and The LGBT Center successful New York; Trans Wellness Center and TransLatin@ Coalition successful Los Angeles; and The GLO Center and The Center Project successful Missouri. Each of those organizations were section to the 3 cities the Grammy victor performed successful for her caller tally of Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things Pop-Up Shows, which contributed $1 per summons sold to the Midwest Princess Project.

The motorboat of Roan’s money marks a earthy adjacent measurement successful her career, which she’s spent fiercely defending the rights of queer and trans people. One of the astir notable instances of this was erstwhile she revealed astatine Gov Ball 2024 that she’d declined an invitation to execute astatine the White House’s Pride Month festivities, saying astatine the time, “We privation liberty, state and justness for each … That means state successful trans rights.”

In 2023, Roan penned a emotion missive to the LGBTQ+ assemblage for Billboard. “To the assemblage that saved me,” she wrote astatine the time. “‘Thank God I’m gay’ is simply a condemnation I thought I’d ne'er say, but it’s true. Thank God I emotion women. Thank God you taught maine to judge myself, inspired maine to formal large and creation the mode I person dreamt of since I was nine.”