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Trans Health Organizations

The organizations listed below provide information and resources on a variety of topics related to transgender health.

Canada

  • Rainbow Health Ontario
     Rainbow Health Ontario is a province-wide program designed to improve access to services and to promote the health of Ontario’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities.
  • Trans Programming at The 519 Church Street Community Centre
     The 519 is a meeting place and focal point for its diverse downtown Toronto communities. Peer-run, The 519 serves the transgender, transsexual and Two-spirit community, with a focus on lower-income, street-involved, homeless, sex-working and marginalized members of the trans communities.

United States

  • Center of Excellence For Transgender Health
     The mission of the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health is to increase access to comprehensive, effective, and affirming healthcare services for trans and gender-variant communities.
  • FORGE
     FORGE is a Milwaukee-based, progressive organization whose mission is to support, educate and advocate for the rights and lives of transgender individuals and SOFFAs (Significant Others, Friends, Family, and Allies). FORGE is dedicated to helping move fra
  • Gender Diversity
     Support and resources to both transgender individuals and to families raising transgender and gender non-conforming children, including support groups, referral services, and community building conferences and events.
  • GLBT Advocacy & Youth Services
     An agency that has elevated the profile and understanding of the needs of GLBT youth living in rural communities across the US.
  • LGBT Cancer
     The National LGBT Cancer Project is the United States’ first and leading Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered cancer survivor support and advocacy nonprofit organization, committed to improving the health of LGBT cancer survivors with peer to peer support.
  • Out With Cancer
     Out With Cancer is the world’s first program for Gay, Lesbian, BI and Trans men and women who are diagnosed with cancer.

Australia

  • FTM Australia
    Peer based network which since 2001 has offered health information and resources to trans men, their family members (partners, parents, siblings and others), healthcare providers and other professionals, government and policymakers.
  • The Gender Centre, Inc. – Petersham
    Offers a wide range of services to people with gender issues, their partners, families and friends in New South Wales.