Community Resources [Health, Legal, Housing etc]
This is a list of community resources that we have, as best as we can, verified are trans-centred or trans friendly. If you have any suggestions to add to the list, or can confirm that any have become defunct or are not trans friendly in practice, that’d be great.
General Resources
Australia
Zoe Belle Gender Centre resource page: searchable Australia-wide page of trans resources
Healthcare Providers
United States
Minnesota: Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition
New York: Callen Lorde
Philadelphia: The Mazzoni Center. Philadelphia’s LGBT health center, provides hormones on informed consent.
San Francisco: Transgender Health Clinic
San Francisco: Lyon Martin Heath Services. “Excellent non-stigmatizing services for trans people throughout the spectrum” [Gina]
Canada They also have a needle exchange program, legal services, counselling and a street work team. All services are free and confidential.
Montreal: Head and Hands . Offers HRT on informed consent.
Vancouver: Transgender Health Program
Homeless Shelters
United States
Arizona: This Is H.O.W. Trans operated service.
Portland: Outside In. Youth homeless shelter with specific clinic times for trans people in need. Some trans staff.
Canada
Halifax: Out of the Cold (November through April). Email: halifaxwintershelter@gmail.com
Australia
Melbourne: Family Access Network. Provides transitional housing for youth from 15-25. Includes two properties for GLBTI youth.
Perth: Perth Inner City Youth Service (PICYS). Some trans staff.
Email: picys@westnet.com.au.
Phone: 9388 2792
Legal
United States
New York: Sylvia Rivera Law Project
AIDS Care
United States
Philadelphia FIGHT is an AIDS service organization, ingrovide care for people with HIV at their Lax Center. They say that “If you have HIV, our mission is to serve you for life, regardless of insurance or ability to pay.” [unverified trans friendlyness]
Rape Crisis Centres and Counseling.
United States
General: Survivor Project “is a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the needs of intersex and trans survivors of domestic and sexual violence through caring action, education and expanding access to resources and to opportunities for action.”
Austin: Safeplace
Boston: Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
New York: Callen-Lorde
North Carolina: The Orange County Rape Crisis Center
Pittsburgh Action Against Rape provides services to all and respects all forms of gender identity: cis, trans, non-binary.
Minnesota: the Sexual Violence Center
Eugene-Springfield, Oregon: Sexual Assault Support Services
Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault
San Francisco Women Against Rape
San Francisco and Oakland: Bay Area Women Against Rape
Canada
Montreal: 2110 centre for gender advocacy
Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape
Toronto: the 519 Church Street Community Center.
Vancouver: Women Against Violence Against Women [unconfirmed as trans friendly]
Winnipeg: Klinic Community Heath Center
United Kingdom
Edinburgh: Edinburgh Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre
Youth Services
United States
Philadelphia: The Attic Youth Center provides services for LGBTIQ youth 14-21. They have counseling, including peer counseling, help for obtaining a GED (General Education Diploma, for people who dropped out of high school).
Pacific Northwest: TransActive
Canada
Montreal: Head and Hands
Australia
Perth: Freedom Centre. Mentor and peer support for LGBT youth under 25. Trans specific times, trans staff.
Needle Exchanges
United States
Philadelphia: Prevention Point Philly runs a needle exchange in the city. You can use this needle exchange if you’re on hormones – they have needles for hormone injections, sharps containers, etc. I’ve used them and they’ve treated me well. I believe that they have some basic testing for transmissible diseases (HIV at least) as well. They operate from a mobile van and have several collection points around the city [description from GallingGalla]
Australia
Toilets
Worldwide
Australia
Melbourne: Toilart – mapping gender-neutral/disabled toilets in Melbourne
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20 Dec 10 at 5:22 pm
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*ahem* at Questioning Transphobia
22 Dec 10 at 9:19 pm
http://www.thisishow.org. This Is H.O.W., Phoenix, Arizona. 501(c)3
Within the limits of our funding, we provide:
Homeless Services (up to 7 at a time, hoping to raise funding for additional) for adults
Educational services
Safe2pee Point
LGBT safespace
Assistance and advocation with local social service agencies. And if you’ve ever seen me argue nicely, you can imagine how rarely we get turned down.
Referrals to local resources that are otherwise hard to identify
Substance abuse & addiction services
Support groups
Emergency short term shelter
Much, much more over the course of the next year as we grow and revitalize the organization.
Founded and Operated entirely by trans people
Been around 4 years
supported entirely by small dollar donations
Note: I am biased here. I have been a resident, the house manager, the Chair of the board, an advisor, and now serve as the Executive Director.
Dyssonance
23 Dec 10 at 1:33 am
I want to thank you for putting PICYS on this list, they pretty much saved my life at one stage and without them I would not be in the place I am today.
They are responsible for helping me find therapy, HRT, as well as helping me through my own abuse and life issues.
They are an invaluable resource with most of their staff being GLBT of some kind.
They provide dedicated housing to GLBT young people, and provide particular services for trans people.
Samantha
23 Dec 10 at 2:40 am
Something to add for Montreal:
Head and Hands (http://www.headandhands.ca/) – Services for folks aged 12 – 25. They have a medical clinic that offers HRT on an informed consent basis. They also have a needle exchange program, legal services, counselling and a street work team. All services are free and confidential.
verberantia
23 Dec 10 at 5:18 am
Lyon Martin Health Services in San Francisco offers excellent non-stigmatizing treatment for trans people all throughout the spectrum.
http://www.lyon-martin.org/
ginasf
23 Dec 10 at 8:40 am
I’d like to recommend HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive, hips.org) for Washington DC. They are extremely trans supportive, and can help direct people to trans- and sex worker-friendly resources (homeless, food banks, etc) in the area. They also offer a syringe exchange program out their office and outreach van.
Alex
23 Dec 10 at 3:54 pm
Santa Cruz, CA: The Planned Parenthood in Santa Cruz is absolutely one of the best clinics for trans people. Hormones are obtained on a strict informed consent basis and the doctor who works with trans health does a lot of listening and collaboration with her patients. The staff really go far beyond what would be required of them professionally.
San Jose, CA: I would like to caution people against the St. James Health Center. They do provide hormones on an informed consent basis (or at least they do if you present to them already on a hormone regimen) and some people do seem to get their needs met. However, the doctor who works with trans people has an enormous amount of fat prejudice and absolutely refuses to listen or collaborate with her patients. At the time that I fired her she was threatening to cut off my hormones unless I lost weight (I have a BMI of 30-31) which is absolutely unacceptable and very transphobic, regardless of what my weight might have been.
Anonymous Lady
25 Dec 10 at 9:07 am
Also, hate to have to say it, but SFWAR can be a mixed bag as far as trans awareness goes. Really depends who you talk to.
Asher
26 Dec 10 at 11:46 am
I’d like to suggest the Gender Trust and its helpline, unless there’s a reason to the contrary http://www.gendertrust.org.uk/home/about/
Krissie Pearse
28 Dec 10 at 6:52 pm
I think the sherbourne clinic should be on here somewhere. They have trans-positive doctors, they have stuff for youth. Granted they have large glass partitions in front of the receptionists but I still think they do some good work.
Cindy Bourgeois
28 Dec 10 at 8:14 pm
sorry…the Sherbourne Health Centre is in Toronto:
http://www.sherbourne.on.ca/
Cindy Bourgeois
29 Dec 10 at 6:36 am
Dimensions Clinic, San Francisco:
http://www.dimensionsclinic.org/home.html
Trans Health Center, uses “informed consent” model for hormones.
Southern Arizona Gender Alliance, Tucson:
http://sagatucson.org/saga/
Social/support group in Tucson, AZ.
Cereus-Sphinx
30 Dec 10 at 6:42 pm
Chicago: Howard Brown Health Center http://www.howardbrown.org/
They use the informed consent model for hormones and work on a sliding scale for people without insurance.
No one
31 Dec 10 at 7:18 am
We need some from the Washington DC area.
Healthcare:
Whitman-Walker Clinic
Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center
1701 14th St. (14th & R Streets) NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-745-7000
http://www.wwc.org/GLBT_health_services/transhealth.htm
I’ve had a consistently very good experience there for the past 5 years in terms of respecting trans people and providing needed care. I recommend them for trans healthcare unreservedly. They have some legal resources too, at least for DC residents.
AIDS care
Whitman-Walker Clinic again. HIV/AIDS is their main specialty.
Transgender Health Empowerment
Community support and education to help trans people get testing and treatment. Focus on prevention counseling. Organized and run by trans people.
1414 North Capitol St. NW
Washington DC 20002
Phone: 202-636-1646
http://www.theincdc.org/
Needle exchange:
HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive)
1309 Rhode Island Ave. NE, #2B
Washington, DC 20018
202-232-8150
Since trans people are such a large proportion of DC’s sex worker population (DC seems to be a standout among American cities for that), this organization is strongly trans-oriented and staffed by trans people. They can also help with placing people in trans-friendly homeless shelters.
These are all that I can personally tell you. But I want to see more DC information listed under general services, legal, youth services, homeless shelters, toilets, and most of all rape crisis centers and counseling. Please anyone who knows of these send in the 411.
Great idea, thanks!
Hypatia
31 Dec 10 at 11:59 am
couple URLs for the above:
Whitman-Walker Clinic HIV/AIDS services
http://www.wwc.org/hiv_aids_services/
HIPS
http://hips.org/
Hypatia
31 Dec 10 at 12:06 pm