As a Trans Coloradan Experiencing Homelessness — I Need to Know Where You Stand

[Neaki Moss]

Dear Representative Titone,

My name is Neaki L. A. Moss. I am a transgender Coloradan, and I am currently experiencing homelessness in Loveland.

I am writing to you directly because I need clarity — and because silence right now feels like abandonment.

I want to be very honest with you. I am only just learning who you are, and I learned about you by accident. Given the moment we are in, that alone is deeply troubling to me. Representation matters, but visibility, leadership, and public advocacy matter just as much — especially when trans people are facing increasing violence, displacement, and erasure.

I am a trans person without safe housing. There are no clearly safe places for trans people to go in my community. Enforcement against unhoused people is increasing, not decreasing. My life, and the lives of people like me, are not getting better — they are getting harder. I have lived in Colorado for 12 years, and from where I stand, conditions for trans people at the margins are worse, not improved.

So I need to ask plainly:
What are you doing — publicly and concretely — to address homelessness and safety for trans people in Colorado?

I am not asking only about work done quietly “behind the scenes.” I am asking about leadership that is visible to the people whose lives are at stake. When trans people are scared, unhoused, and targeted, we need elected officials who are willing to be seen, heard, and unmistakably present.

I look at leaders like Congresswoman Sarah McBride and see public-facing advocacy, clear messaging, and visible resistance. I do not see the same level of public leadership here in Colorado, and I need to understand why.

I want to know:

• What specific laws or actions you believe have materially improved the lives of trans people in Colorado

• How those actions are reaching trans people who are unhoused or living in crisis

• What you plan to do now, in this moment, when federal hostility and local enforcement are making survival harder

This is not about personal recognition. It is about whether trans people in power are willing to stand visibly with trans people who are struggling to survive.

I am out here fighting — educating, advocating, and trying to protect my community with very little support. I need to know whether you are willing to be part of that fight in a way that we can actually see and feel.

I hope you will respond directly and clearly. Right now, it feels like trans people at the margins are being left behind, and that cannot continue.

Sincerely,
Neaki L. A. Moss
Loveland, Colorado