The Transgender Education Foundation aims to provide a diversified direct service to the transgender community at-large for long-term planning, sustainability, and to serve as an educational hub for transgender studies and research. We believe in fostering a just, equitable, and progressive society through fundamental sociopolitical, economic, cultural, and educational reform for the advancement of transgender civil rights, ensuring systemic prosperity, a higher quality of life, and protection for the transgender community.

Established in 2020 as The Frances Thompson Education Foundation, the Transgender Education Foundation has grown to become the largest trans-led education access organization for students pursuing higher education. Furthermore, our investment in students' long-term education creates pathways to dignified work outside of survival sex work, which prevents the transmission of HIV. Students who benefit from our programs foster a sense of pride in a shared history through increased cultural competency. Student academic retention outcomes have proven to increase as a sense of purpose, and belonging develops.

The Transgender Education Foundation works to increase education access to high-potential transgender students experiencing financial difficulty balancing gender transition and academic costs. TEF organizes students at an international level with scholars based across the United States, Jamaica, and Brazil.