Community Partners: Queer & Trans Parents Edition
Queer and trans parents deserve support now—and something built specifically with their realities in mind next.
In Awe, the flagship Older Parents & Old Souls Edition, is available now for families whose pregnancies carry complexity, history, advocacy, and becoming. It is trauma-informed, outcome inclusive, family-structure inclusive, and built for the inner work mainstream pregnancy culture often misses.
The current edition can support families now. The next edition will be rooted in the lived realities of queer and trans parents—from the beginning.
Watch the invitation below ↓
In Awe—A collaboration
Two pathways forward
Support families now. Help shape what comes next.
This page is both an invitation to explore what already exists and a call for aligned partners who care about building something more specific, more rooted, and more useful for queer and trans parents.
Available now
Explore the current edition for your community
The flagship In Awe edition was created for older parents and old souls: people whose pregnancies are not simple, shallow, or purely logistical.
Many queer and trans families may find it deeply resonant, especially when pregnancy carries identity questions, chosen-family dynamics, advocacy needs, grief, hope, or a sense of becoming someone new.
Meet In AweThe bigger invitation
Help shape the Queer & Trans Parents Edition
Sacred Transformation is seeking LGBTQIA+ organizations, advocates, clinicians, birth workers, and community leaders interested in helping shape a dedicated future edition.
- community insight
- language guidance
- lived-experience wisdom
- partnership exploration
- future advisory or consulting possibilities
What already lives inside In Awe
A structured companion for the inner terrain of pregnancy
Identity-centered support
Pregnancy is never just logistics. In Awe supports reflection around identity, family scripts, fear, hope, advocacy, grief, belonging, and becoming.
Family-structure inclusive
Partners, co-parents, older children, trusted loved ones, and community support all have a place in the journey.
Outcome inclusive
In Awe holds families regardless of how their path unfolds.
Loving Legacies—a complete companion for families navigating miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of a baby—offers the same structural depth, journals, and partner and family pathways.
Loving Legacies is offered as a gift to families, with a long-term vision of community and organizational partners helping sustain that gift.
Building the next edition
The Queer & Trans Parents Edition should be rooted from the beginning.
Sacred Transformation is building toward future editions that speak more directly to the lived realities of communities too often underserved by mainstream pregnancy culture.
The current edition can support families now. The next edition will be rooted in the lived realities of queer and trans parents—from the beginning.
This is not a request for one organization to “approve” the work. It is an invitation to begin relationship with people and organizations who may want to help shape what this edition becomes.
Possible forms of connection include:
- an introductory conversation about needs, gaps, and fit
- feedback on language, framing, and priorities
- community partnership or referral exploration
- introductions to aligned clinicians, birth workers, advocates, or families
- future advisory or consulting roles as the edition develops
Exploratory conversations are about relationship, alignment, and possibility. Any formal advisory or consulting partnership would be compensated.
Common questions
What organizations may want to know
Support families now. Help shape what comes next.
Explore the flagship Older Parents & Old Souls edition of In Awe for your community, or start a conversation about the future Queer & Trans Parents Edition.
Looking for other community partnership opportunities? Doula training programs, perinatal health organizations, community organizations, and more—reach out directly, or see the full range of partnership pathways.
The Work Behind This Work
Before creating In Awe, I spent almost a decade teaching in higher education, much of that time working with students whose lives were far more complex than any syllabus could hold. I quickly learned that teaching was only the part of the work I got paid for. The real work meant helping people navigate uncertainty, grief, bureaucracy, pregnancy, poverty, violence, hope, and change—whatever life had brought through the door that day.
Over time, one lesson kept returning. Information is rarely enough. More resources are rarely enough. People also need someone willing to stay.
Throughout my career, I’ve found myself returning to the place where learning, language, and care meet. Along the way, that has taken the form of teaching, writing, editing, and curriculum design. In Awe is where those threads finally came together.
My own pregnancy didn’t start this work. It showed me where it needed to go.
The same conviction that shaped In Awe also shapes this invitation: the people closest to the experience should help shape what comes next.
The work has changed. The question hasn’t.
How do we help people move through life’s biggest thresholds with clarity, dignity, and care?
— Maggie Krug
Founder, Sacred Transformation