South Dakota activist runs supportive community center for trans population

Angela George
Sioux Falls Argus Leader

“In 2017, Susan Williams’ 10-year-old child wrote her an eight-page letter.

“I can’t do this anymore,” the letter read. “I am a boy, and I have always been a boy. I have never been your daughter, and now I need you to help me.”

So, blindly and completely self-taught, his mother did.

Five years ago, Williams founded the Transformation Project, a resource and educational nonprofit organization for the trans population in South Dakota, a state that tends to discount the LGBTQIA2S+ community and in 2023 banned doctors from providing gender-affirming healthcare to transgender youth.

Williams’ efforts to support her son, Wyatt, who today is an 18-year-old college student in Chicago and “thriving,” have awarded her as South Dakota’s honoree for USA Today’s 2025 Women of the Year program.”

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“South Dakota is full of folks who are ready to surround transgender kids with love and support,” Williams said. “I will continue to wrap my arms around them.”