A Woman’s Place (AWP) is the only 24-hour supportive residential services in San Francisco offering emergency shelter and long-term treatment programs to women and transgender women with special needs due to mental disabilities, sexual or domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and HIV+/AIDS-related issues. |
We’re a safe space by and for the transgender community. Connect to community, explore your identity, and grow. You’ll always be respected here. |
CUAV works to build the power of LGBTQQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) communities to transform violence and oppression. We support the healing and leadership of those impacted by abuse and mobilize our broader communities to replace cycles of trauma with cycles of safety and liberation. As part of the larger social justice movement, CUAV works to create truly safe communities where everyone can thrive. |
El/La is an organization for transgender Latinas (TransLatinas) that works to build collective vision and action to promote our survival and improve our quality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area. Because we exist in a world that fears and hates transgender people, women and immigrants, we fight for justice. We respond to those who see us as shameful, disposable or less than human. We are here to reflect the style and grace of our survival, and to make new paths for ourselves. |
Gender Spectrum provides an array of services to help youth, families, organizations and institutions understand and address concepts of gender identity and gender expression, including how societal, cultural, organizational and community definitions of gender can be detrimental to any young person that does not fit neatly into these categories. |
The following are tips that can be used as you move toward becoming a better ally to transgender people. Of course, this list is not exhaustive and cannot include all the "right" things to do or say - because often there is no one "right" answer to every situation you might encounter.
When you become an ally of transgender people, your actions will help change the culture, making society a better, safer place for transgender people - and for all people (trans or not) who do not conform to gender expectations. |
A resource to FAQ's about gender identity and being transgender
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Lyon-Martin Health Services provides excellent health care to women, lesbians and transgender people in a safe and compassionate environment, with sensitivity to sexual orientation and gender identity; all services are regardless of ability to pay. |
LYRIC’s mission is to build community and inspire positive social change through education enhancement, career trainings, health promotion, and leadership development with LGBTQQ youth, their families, and allies of all races, classes, genders, and abilities. |
TWMC is a multidisciplinary primary care clinic run by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. They have nutritional, mental health, pharmaceutical, and social services, and work closely with community organizations. They also have a specific transgender clinic. Provides medical, psychosocial, substance abuse, counseling and outreach services. Offers medical care, case management, mental health care, social work and outreach services to homeless individuals in the streets, shelters, hotels, treatment centers and multi-service centers. Provides mental health assessment, counseling, therapy, referrals and psychiatric supervision. Advocates on behalf of homeless individuals. Also provides assistance in applying for General Assistance and SSI. |
Trans Lifeline is dedicated to the well being of transgender people. We run a hotline staffed by transgender people for transgender people. Trans Lifeline volunteers are ready to respond to whatever support needs members of our community might have. 877-565-8860 |
Transgender Health Services improves access and quality of healthcare for transgender San Franciscans via its Transgender Surgery Access Program for Healthy San Francisco and Medi-Cal patients. It also partners throughout the SF Health Network to strengthen competency in transgender healthcare at all access points. |
Transgender Law Center changes law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression. We envision a future where gender self-determination and authentic expression are seen as basic rights and matters of common human dignity. |
Transgender Law Center celebrates the introduction of a resolution authored by Supervisor Scott Weiner that urges the Department of Public Health to remove transgender exclusions from the Healthy San Francisco (Healthy SF) health access program. Healthy SF currently excludes transgender patients from accessing medically necessary transition-related care that is available to non-transgender patients. |
TransGender San Francisco is a support and social group for the entire TransGender and Gender-Non-Conforming community.
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