About Gender Health Center
The Gender Health Center is a welcoming and friendly place that offers valuable support for individuals seeking gender-affirming healthcare. The counselors are dedicated to meeting people where they are and working with them on their own timelines. Many clients appreciate the staff's empathy and their efforts to provide useful resources for navigating social, legal, and medical aspects of their transitions. The center is a not-for-profit institution striving to fill gaps in care, especially during challenging times marked by targeted hate and bigotry. With a trauma-informed and intersectional approach, the Gender Health Center has helped many reclaim their identities and move forward in their journeys. Clients have found assistance for name and gender changes, as well as for surgical letters, making their experiences easier and more manageable.
The Gender Health Center is welcoming and friendly. I appreciate that the counselors here made an effort to meet me where I was at, and worked with me on my own timeline. I have struggled to get gender affirming healthcare, but the staff here empathized with my situation and gave me useful resources to get proper medical care. If you are overwhelmed trying to navigate the social, legal, and medical aspects your transition, I would definitely reach out to the the Gender Health Center. I was feeling lost and didn't even know what help I wanted or needed but I just decided to give it a try. I was surprised that the counselors took the time to learn about my situation and...read full review
I've been utilizing their services ever since I could no longer afford private health insurance AND pay for gender affirming care. A lot is changing (hopefully for the better). Gender Health is becoming integrated into general healthcare (as it should imo) and GHC has helped fill in A LOT of the holes. As a not for profit institution I genuinely think they are trying their best with the little funding they receive. Gender non conforming folks need as much help as we can get; especially with this resurgence of targeted hate speech and bigotry coinciding with our election cycles. Their approach to care and services is trauma informed and intersectional. I have been able...read full review
I went to get help with my name and gender change precovid and they were extremely helpful. Later on I got help getting my letter for surgery and couldn't be more grateful for their help is making both these processes easy.