Resources & science
Services, providers, trans-friendly businesses and educational resources for and about trans & gender-variant folx
Local, regional and web
Online
Washington
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QueerDoc (online)
Dr. Lana Ferris (Vancouver) -
Shelley Huntington, LMFT (Port Angeles)
Spectrum Counseling (Richland)
Dazzling Spoons Counseling (Vancouver)
Prisma Wellness (Bellevue)
Genna Brodsky Chase, LCSW (Olympia)
Erika Laurentz (Olympia)
Jennifer Bivona, LCSW (Camas)
Carly Stevens, L.M.H.C. (online) -
Real You Electrolysis (Vancouver)
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Trans Vocal Training (Vancouver)
Your Lessons Now (Vancouver) -
Ingersoll Gender Center (Seattle)
Rainbow Center (Tacoma)
Kaitlin Dittmar, LGBTQ+ Advocacy Specialist (YWCA Clark County - Vancouver) -
Triple Point program (Vancouver)
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Black Trans Advocacy Coalition (Various)
Oregon
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Outside In (Portland)
Prism Health (Portland) -
Zoe Garbarini, MSW (Portland)
Outside In (Portland)
Cheriish Counseling LLC (Gresham)
Brave Space (Portland)
Sandra Hall, LCSW (Portland)
Post Script Therapy (Portland)
Rebel Heart Therapy (Portland)
The Center for Couples & Sex Therapy (Portland)
Ajay Dheer, MS (Beaverton)
Andrea Firpo (Portland)
Dr. Ari Brooke Kramer (online)
Evan Egener, MA, LPC Associate (Portland)
Melissa Hartley, MS, NCC, LPC (Portland)
Joaquin Lopez, MS, NCC (Beaverton)
Susan O’Dell, PhD (Portland)
Samuel Salamon, Psy.D. (Portland)
Heather Weaver, L.P.C., L.M.F.T. (St. Helens)
Andrea Tanaka (Eugene)
Anne W Taylor, LPC, LAT, ATR (Portland)
Caelin Johnson-Lupes, L.C.S.W (Ashland)
Teryl Clendenin, P.M.H.N.P (Portland)
Raelle Kaia, L.P.C. (Portland) -
Terry Eason Electrolysis (McMinnville)
Bare Glow Electrolysis (Bend)
Transformations Electrolysis (Portland/Beaverton)Equi Institute (Portland area referral list)
Real You Electrolysis (Portland/Vancouver)
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Q Center (Portland)
Brave Space (Portland)
Outside In (Portland)
Equi Institute (Portland)
TransPonder (Eugene)
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TransActive Gender Project (Lewis & Clark College, Portland)
Outside In (Portland)
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Sage (Portland)
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Sage—resources for older LGBTQII+ (Portland)
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Basic Rights Oregon (Portland)
Black Trans Advocacy Coalition (Various)
Equi Institute (Portland)
Sage—resources for older LGBTQII+ (Portland)
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Sage—activities for our LGBTQII+ elders (Portland)
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Brave Space(Portland)
Outside In (Portland)
Equi Institute (Portland)
Sage—resources for older LGBTQII+ (Portland)
Ringed (Portland - custom wedding rings)
Our organizational allies
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Pride Northwest, INC.
Host to Portland week-long Pride festivities and youth & community impact programs. Proud to call Pride NW our loving principal partner in community service since 2018.
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Vancouver, WA Pride
Dedicated to providing educational, scholarship opportunities and support services for LGBTQ families, children, and friends in the greater Clark County
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TransActive Gender Project
Providing services and expertise to empower transgender and gender expansive children, youth, and their families in living healthy lives that are free of discrimination
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Friendly House
Enhancing the lives of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community through education, advocacy, outreach and resource development
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Q Center
A physical center for the LGBTQI+ community for decades. Offering event/meeting space, a resource hub and connected to LGBTQI++ medical care
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Basic Rights Oregon
Seeking to achieve our mission of legal and lived equality for trans people through our legislation, policy, as well as educational outreach and community organizing
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Lower Columbia Q Center
Providing Outreach, Education, and Charity for the LGBTQ2SIA+ Community and Allies of the Lower Columbia Region of Oregon and Washington
Science & surveys
Research on the Transgender Brain
2019 research from the Cleveland Clinic “The Transgender Brain, What You Should Know”
A compelling 2021 research article from Frontiers In Sociology
Transgender research | transgender brain structure
MRI Suggest transgender people’s brains resemble their identified gender
Societal disfunction
From a 2015 survey (below), the following statistics show the economic, mental and social dysfunctions that further illustrate that the path to healing is long.