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+ community throughout her career, the pop star has announced a fund called the Midwest Princess Project supporting vulnerable trans youth.

The news came in the form of an Instagram post on Thursday (Oct. 23), with Roan writing, “I am so excited to announce @midwestprincessproject, an organization we’ve launched to provide support and needed resources for trans youth and LGBTQ+ communities!”

“The Midwest Princess Project already raised over $400,000 at my Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things Pop-Up Shows, and those funds will be donated to incredible organizations making a positive impact for trans youth in their communities,” she continued. “Outside of transaction fees to host the donation page and limited costs for my team to effectively manage the project, we have committed to donating every dollar possible to the organizations that need it most.”

Among the organizations that have benefitted so far from Roan’s fund are the Ali Forney Center and The LGBT Center in New York; Trans Wellness Center and TransLatin@ Coalition in Los Angeles; and The GLO Center and The Center Project in Missouri. Each of those organizations were local to the three cities the Grammy winner performed in for her recent run of Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things Pop-Up Shows, which contributed $1 per ticket sold to the Midwest Princess Project.

The launch of Roan’s fund marks a natural next step in her career, which she’s spent fiercely defending the rights of queer and trans people. One of the most notable instances of this was when she revealed at Gov Ball 2024 that she’d declined an invitation to perform at the White House’s Pride Month festivities, saying at the time, “We want liberty, freedom and justice for all … That means freedom in trans rights.”

In 2023, Roan penned a love letter to the LGBTQ+ community for Billboard. “To the community that saved me,” she wrote at the time. “‘Thank God I’m gay’ is a sentence I thought I’d never say, but it’s true. Thank God I love women. Thank God you taught me to accept myself, inspired me to dress loud and dance the way I have dreamt of since I was nine.”

This article was first published by Billboard U.S.