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U.S.  National Organizations

The American Boyz (AmBoyz) is an organization which aims to support people who were labeled female at birth but who feel that is not an accurate or complete description of who they are (FTMs) and their significant others, friends, families and allies (SOFFAs).

FTM International: This site is the internet contact point for the largest, longest-running educational organization serving FTM transgendered people and transsexual men.  We are a diverse group. We come from different backgrounds, including every imaginable sexual orientation, and are multicultural. We range in age from our teens to our 70s and include persons who are just beginning to examine gender issues as well as persons who have been dealing with them for many years.  We are here to help - whether in the form of providing information, or through our newsletter and other publications, through support from volunteers who are willing to help if you need someone to talk to, or through our list of online mailing lists and links, and also through our monthly meetings and special events.

Gender Education and Advocacy: Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA) is a national organization focused on the needs, issues and concerns of gender variant people in human society. We seek to educate and advocate, not only for ourselves and others like us, but for all human beings who suffer from gender-based oppression in all of its many forms.

GenderPAC works to end discrimination and violence caused by gender stereotypes by changing public attitudes, educating elected officials and expanding legal rights.

Human Rights Campaign is committed to educating the public on issues that affect transgender Americans. HRC will continue to work at the local, state and federal level in coalition with transgender organizations and transgender leadership to secure equal protection under the law for all gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.

Immigration Equality (formerly known as Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force) is a coalition of immigrants, attorneys and other activists who address the widespread impact of discriminatory immigration laws on the lives of those in the gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender community and immigrants who are living with HIV/AIDS.350 W. 31st St., Ste. 505, New York, NY,  10001, (212) 714-2904 x. 25, legal@immigrationequality.org

International Foundation for Gender Education: The International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), founded in 1987, is a leading advocate and educational organization for promoting the self-definition and free expression of individual gender identity. IFGE is not a support group, it is an information provider and clearinghouse for referrals about all things which are transgressive of established social gender norms. IFGE maintains the most complete bookstore on the subject of transgenderism available anywhere. It also publishes the leading magazine providing reasoned discussion of issues of gender expression and identity, including crossdressing, transsexualism, FTM and MTF issues spanning health, family, medical, legal, workplace issues and more.

Intersex Society of North America is devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female. We urge physicians to use a model of care that is patient-centered, rather than concealment-centered:

Lambda Legal Defense and Education Network is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, the transgendered, and people with HIV or AIDS through impact litigation, education, and public policy work.

National Center for Lesbian Rights: NCLR provides free information and counseling to lesbians, gay men, and bisexual and transgendered individuals, and technical assistance to attorneys. NCLR has launched the Transgender Law Project to combat discrimination against transgender people in housing, immigration, health care, public accommodation, and family rights.  Excellent resources posted on their web page.

National Center for Transgender Equality is a social justice organization working to make transgender people safe from discrimination and violence. NCTE provides a national voice on fairness and equality for transgender people in Washington and provides resources and assistance to empower and strengthen localized efforts around the country.

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is a national progressive organization working for the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, with the vision and commitment to building a powerful political movement.  NGLTF's Transgender Civil Rights Project works to increase the number of state, local and federal laws that prohibit discrimination based on gender expression and identity.

National Transgender Advocacy Coalition is a political advocacy coalition working to establish and maintain the right of all transgendered, intersexed,and gender-variant people to live and work without fear of violence or discrimination.

Parents and Friends of Gays and Lesbians: PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.

Pride at Work: National Pride At Work is a constituency group of the AFL-CIO.  Its purpose is to mobilize mutual support between the organized Labor Movement and the LGBT Community around organizing for social and economic justice, seek full equality for LGBT Workers in their workplaces and unions, work towards creating a Labor Movement that cherishes diversity, encourages openness, and ensures safety & dignity, educate the LBGT Community about the benefits of union membership for LGBT working people, and build support and solidarity for the union movement in the LGBT community.  PAW opposes all forms of discrimination on the job and in our unions based on sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, religion or political views.

Remembering Our Dead. Memorial site.

Safe Schools Coalition is a public-private partnership in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth is to help schools - at home and all over the world - become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.

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.

The Transgender at Work (TAW) project is a focal point for addressing workplace issues for the transgendered. TAW provides resources for innovative employers who want to set their company employment policies to help their transgendered employees to be at their most productive, without spending energy hiding an important part of themselves and pretending to be something they are not.  Transgender at Work (TAW) focuses on voluntary cooperation between employers and employees.

Transgender Community of Police and Sheriffs (TCOPS): Members of TCOPS span the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We are patrol officers, deputies, federal officers, detectives, supervisors, reserve officers, support staff, and retired officers. Welcome to our home on the internet. The purpose of TCOPS is to provide information, education, support, and networking opportunities to members of the police community dealing with transsexualism behind the badge. 

Transgender Health Alliance is a new and growing international association of mental health, medical and allied health professionals within the transgender community. Mission: to advocate for competent, caring and comprehensive health care for the transgender community.

Transgenderlegal.com:  Transgender Legal was created to accelerate the legal freedom of transgenders!  Transgenders include, but are not limited to, part-time crossdressers and full-time transsexuals. This site is dedicated to assist them and any other person who expresses any type of actual or perceived gender presentation which is at variance with bipolar, socially assigned, gender presentations or gender identifications. TRANSGENDER LEGAL is the official web site for Phyllis Randolph Frye, Esq., of Houston, Texas, USA. This site includes most of the two-plus decades of her writings and other items that she has produced in her quest for individual freedom and for freedom of her people.

TransParentcy: Supporting the loving and caring relationship between transgender parents and their children.

Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA)  acts to ensure that transsexual and transgendered veterans will receive appropriate care for medical conditions in accordance with the Veterans Health Administration Customer Service Standards. Further, TAVA will help in educating the VA and the US military on issues regarding a fair and equal treatment of transgendered and transsexual individuals.

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U.S. Regional Organizations

Arizona:

Southern Arizona Gender Alliance April, 2003--Fiive months after the death of transgender rights activist and TGNet Arizona founder Alexander John Goodrum, TGNet’s Advisory Board announced plans to merge with another local transgender advocacy group, the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance (SAGA). The newly merged organization is now working to incorporate as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization separate from its fiscal sponsor.

California:

California Alliance for Pride and Equality: Founded in 1998, CAPE is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots-based, statewide advocacy organization whose mission is to ensure the dignity, safety, equality and civil rights of all LGBT Californians.

Transgender Law Center (TLC) is a legal civil rights organization that connects transgender people to technically sound and culturally competent legal services in California. TLC uses the word transgender in the broadest possible sense to include anyone who in any way disagrees with their birth assigned gender and/or does not conform to gender norms. TLC's three-pronged approach is: direct legal services, public policy advocacy, and education.  For more information, email info@transgenderlawcenter.org or call (415) 865 5619.

Colorado:

The Gender Identity Center of Colorado, Inc., (GIC) is a non-profit corporation organized in 1978 to provide support to those people who cross dress, are transsexual, or are non-traditional in their gender identity. The Center is also an informational and educational resource to the community at large. The GIC is available to anyone, male or female, who can benefit from its services or resources, including spouses and significant others, parents, and siblings. We offer over 18 meetings a month for CD's, TS's, TG's and SO's. For mroe information, please visit our website or email us at info@gicofcolo.org or call us at 303-202-6466.

Connecticut:

Connecticut TransAdvocacy Coalition: CTAC’s mission is to make Connecticut a safe and tolerant place for the Transgender and Gender Variant Community through Political and Social Advocacy. CTAC is a grassroots coalition of individuals and ally organizations dedicated to assuring the Civil Rights of the Transgender Community in Connecticut.

Connecticut Coalition for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Civil Rights: a statewide organization that promotes and develops political awareness in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community. The Coalition strives to: organize lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and allies to further LGBT civil rights; politically empower LGBT people through ongoing involvement in the legislative process; create related and educational programs.

Florida:

Equality Florida:  is a statewide education and advocacy organization dedicated to eliminating discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, class and gender (including identity and expression).

Forge: The Florida Gender Equality Project. FORGE is the first and only organization exclusively dedicated to gender and transgender education and advocacy in Florida. FORGE works to build, protect, and advance a safe and productive environment for people of all genders within the Sunshine State by using education and advocacy to create positive change.

Hawai'i:

Civil Unions - Civil Rights Movement of Hawai'i: The Civil Unions-Civil Rights Movement is a statewide coalition of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and inter-sexed  (GLBTQI) and allied persons, organizations, and institutions to achieve equality and justice for GLBTQI citizens in Hawai`i.

Illinois:

Illinois Gender Advocates is a nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving equal human and civil rights gender minorities, including transgender, intersex, and other gender variant members of our society who are often singled out for discrimination. We support all minorities in the struggle for equal rights. The Mission is to advocate for gender variant people, including but not limited to transgendered people, by means of educating the general public and acting as an advocate for the rights of the gender variant in public and private forums. We have two areas of focus: Legal and legislative advocacy, and advocacy for the rights of transgender and gender variant youth.

Indiana:

Indiana Transgender Rights Advocacy Alliance seeks to organize the transgender community and works through education and legislative efforts to create a society that values and protects freedom of gender expression and the right to gender self-determination for all.

Lousiana:

Louisiana Lesbian and Gay Political Caucus

Maryland:

Free State Justice Campaign. Free State Justice Campaign works to secure and protect the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Maryland.  We are a proactive voice in obtaining full rights and equality under the Statutes and Constitution of Maryland for all members of our diverse community by providing understanding and education, and promoting legislative initiatives.

Massachusetts:

Butchdykeboy.com: An on-line resource for the Boston Queer - Transgender - Gender Queer and free thinkers of all kinds, everywhere!

Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders: (GLAD) is New England’s leading legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity and expression. 

Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, formed in 2001, is a fast-growing organization of activists across the state who are committed to ending discrimination on the basis of gender identity and gender expression. Members of the MTPC include lawyers, students, health care providers, and community members of all stripes dedicated to educating and advocating on behalf of gender freedom. For more information or to get involved email info@masstpc.org

Michigan:

Transgender Michigan: dedicated to improving communications between all of the various groups supporting the transgendered communities in Michigan.

New England States:

Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders: (GLAD) is New England’s leading legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity and expression. 

New Mexico:

Coalition for Equality in New Mexico: The Coalition is a federation of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and allied organizations from throughout New Mexico, which support full civil rights and an end to discrimination in all forms for all people. The Coalition and its member organizations want to ensure that all gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people and their families can live their lives openly and proudly without fear of violence or discrimination.

New Mexico Gender Advocacy Information Network.  NMGAIN is a new statewide political advocacy association to fight for protection for transgendered people. NMGAIN was established in November, 2000, to be a source for information regarding the transgendered community. NMGAIN will advocate for protections against employment discrimination, as well as open access to health care, and public and private shelters and services.

New Jersey:

Gender Rights Advocacy Association of New Jersey (GRAANJ) is the state's civil rights organization that works for full equality for gender nonconforming people, including those who identify as transgender and intersex. Founded in 2000, GRAANJ played a decisive role in ensuring that New Jersey's safe-schools legislation, signed into law in September 2002, incorporates protections for transgender, intersex and gender nonconforming students. It is one of only three state laws in the nation to include such protections. GRAANJ is a member organization of the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition, and is currently working with the coalition and Lambda Legal Defense in support of litigation seeking to win the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. GRAANJ is also a member of the Federation of Statewide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organizations

New York:

The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is a new law project focusing on the needs and concerns of low-income transgender, transsexual, gender variant, and intersex people in the New York City area. The SRLP provides direct advocacy and representation for clients as well as engaging in policy work, trainings, and organizing. SRLP is currently assisting clients with housing issues, criminal justice issues, and problems related to being transgender in the NYC foster care system, as well as serving as a legal resource center for attorneys and low-income trans, gender variant, and intersex people throughout NYC. To find out more about SRLP's services or to get assistance or materials, please email Dean Spade at dspade@srlp.org.

Housing Works is a minority-controlled, community-based, not-for-profit corporation providing housing, health care, advocacy, job training, and vital supportive services to homeless New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS.   [They do also much advocacy for transgender rights in New York State.]

Oregon:

It's Time, Oregon! is a gender educational and advocacy organization on the west coast of the United States of America. We are a chapter of It's Time, America!, the first nationally-organized grassroots civil rights group seeking to secure and safeguard the rights of all transgendered persons. 

Pennsylvania:

Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights: The Center provides free legal information to transgender individuals facing discrimination and free legal representation to low income people, and a name change kit. The Center represents people in the state of Pennsylvania.

Texas:

Transgender Advocates of Central Texas  is an advocacy group dedicated to furthering the cause of Gender Diverse people in Central Texas. We will accomplish this through advocacy and education in both public and private forums. Through our efforts we will strive to halt discrimination through social, legal, legislative and corporate education.

Texas Human Rights Foundation is a decades-old civil rights organization fighting to end discrimination against the transgendered community in Texas through the use of impact litigation, public education, and legal assistance. Its website, a, provides legal forms, case information, and access to legal services for those persons who fit within its mission. In addition, THRF operates a 24-hour legal assistance and referral hotline for individuals who have experienced discrimination due to their gender identity, sexual orientation, or HIV status.

Utah:

Transgender Education Advocates of Utah: Awareness and proper understanding of transgender men and women is the first step for things to change in Utah. TEA facilitates educational forums to the public. Gender 101 classes in Colleges throughout the Salt Lake Valley and through other organizations in and outside the GLBT community. TEA also provides sensitivity training to local businesses and outside organizations adding "Gender Identity" to the non-discrimination policies they enforce. Educating the politicians in Utah about the transgender community for increased awareness of discrimination. We believe it is TEA time.

Wisconsin:

Action Wisconsin - Wisconsin's statewide civil rights group for LGBT people.  Can offer resources on legal information and some referrals. 608.441.0143 or info@actionwisconsin.org.

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