Being a T-Girl is more than just shopping and makeup, there’s also a very important need for support, help with medical issues, legal advice and more. Here are a few resources that you might find helpful.
Gender Therapists
Specializes in intimacy, communication, infidelity, sexuality, gender identity, and fostering healthy relationships. LGBTQIA+ affirmative and respect diversity in sexual identity, relationships, sexual orientation, and sexual practices and lifestyles. Emphasis on creating an environment of radical inclusivity for clients of all genders, sexual orientations, races, cultures, faiths, sizes, and lifestyles.
Over 25 years of experience as a counseling psychologist. Her areas of expertise are relationship and couples therapy, depression, anxiety and stress, grief and loss, life transitions, addiction recovery, sexual identity.
Other LGBTQ+ options in Minnesota:
http://lgbttherapists.org/
Transgender specific:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/transgender/minnesota
Support
Getting your family to understand your gender identity can be a long, complicated, and stressful process. Sometimes families feel alone when a family member comes out as transgender, and don’t know how to be supportive and affirming.
Transforming Families is a community where transgender, gender non-conforming, and questioning youth and their families come together to support each other in a safe, welcoming space. At our monthly gatherings, separate breakout groups for parents, kids, siblings, and teens provide the opportunity to meet and learn from other people traveling the same path.
Families meet other families to share, talk, and hang out. We’re here to listen to each other’s stories, exchange resources, build community, and have fun! It’s a simple idea that works.
Minnesota Transgender Alliance
Their mission is providing resources and support to all members of the transgender community. Building relationships through fellowship and understanding.
National Center for Transgender Equality
The National Center for Transgender Equality is the nation’s leading social justice advocacy organization winning life-saving change for transgender people.
NCTE was founded in 2003 by transgender activists who recognized the urgent need for policy change to advance transgender equality. With a committed board of directors, a volunteer staff of one, and donated office space, we set out to accomplish what no one had yet done: provide a powerful transgender advocacy presence in Washington, D.C.
Today, NCTE has grown to a staff of 17 and works at the local, state, and federal level to change laws, policies and society.
This is an excellent site for information about changing your legal name and updating your name and gender on federal records.
PFLAG stands for Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and is a support, education and advocacy organization. PFLAG is a tax exempt, non-profit organization that is not affiliated with any political or religious institution.
At PFLAG, participants find a confidential, warm and supportive setting where we can share our concerns with others and find comfort and reassurance about our gay children, family members, friends and ourselves.
Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition
The Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition is committed to improving health care access and the quality of health care received by trans and gender non-conforming people through education, resources, and advocacy.
They are working for racial, social, and economic justice, and recognize that we are part of a multi-issue movement that includes gender liberation, as well as differences around race, class, age, sexuality, ability, immigrant status, and much more.
PRIDE Institute is committed to providing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people a road to recovery through evidence-based substance abuse, sexual health, and mental health treatment.
PRIDE Institute strengthens resiliency and enhances the wellness of LGBTQ+ people through treatment programs grounded in the traditions of recovery while incorporating current evidence-based practices.
Rainbow Health Initiative’s goal is health equity for the LGBTQ community. Rainbow Health Initiative was founded in 2001 by a group of community activists, physicians, and health advocates who noted the significant health disparities facing members of Minnesota’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities. They came together with the common goal of improving the health of queer Minnesotans.
OutFront Minnesota’s mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination.
They envision a state where LGBTQ individuals have equal opportunities, protection and rights. They are working toward the day when all Minnesotans have the freedom, power and confidence to make the best choices for their own lives.
Hannah McKnight 