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Transgender Resources

This resource hub is dedicated to supporting and uplifting the transgender community. Whether you’re looking for advocacy groups, crisis assistance, trans-friendly businesses, or spaces for connection, you’ll find valuable tools and support here.

Sister Clubs & Support Groups
  • NWGA of Portland, Oregon
    NWGA is the Emerald Cities sister social club in Portland, Oregon. The Emerald City works with NWGA and Cornbury Society to produce Esprit in Port Angeles, Washington. The Emerald City was born out of NWGA. We have a special bond and relationship with NWGA.
  • Cornbury Society of Vancouver, British Columbia
    Cornbury is the Emerald Cities sister social club in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.. The Emerald City works with NWGA and Cornbury Society to produce Esprit in Port Angeles, Washington. They have a great website with lots of helpful information about transgendered behavior.
  • Transgender San Francisco
    TransGender San Francisco is a support and social group for the entire TransGender and Gender-Non-Conforming community.
  • Gender Diversity
    Gender Diversity improves the well-being of all ages of gender identities and expression by providing education, increasing awareness, and offering insight into the wider range of human experience.
  • Ingersoll Gender Center
    Ingersoll offers support groups, referrals to Ingersoll trained therapists, referrals to physicians and surgeons when those are appropriate, and a great deal of expertise.
  • Diversity Alliance of the Puget Sound
    Diversity Alliance of the Puget Sound (DAPS) serves Washington State’s Transgender, Non-Binary, Genderfluid, Gender Non-Conforming, Agender, Intersex, and Questioning population through direct service. We strive to meet as many of the needs of these individuals as possible by providing support groups to give them a safe space to learn and grow as their authentic selves, financial need programs, individual and community advocacy, and HRT supply kit programs.
  • PFLAG
    PFLAG is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them. The have local chapters around the country, including Seattle, Everett, and Bellevue.
  • Pride Across the Bridge
    PAB is a passionate team committed to supporting and uplifting the voices and lived experiences of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community on the Eastside.
Current Affairs & Politics
  • Gender Justice League
    Gender Justice League focuses on elevating the rights of TwoSpirit, Trans, & Gender Diverse (2STGD) communities in Washington State and beyond through advocacy efforts, direct services, shared leadership development, and the creation of sacred Trans spaces like Trans Pride Seattle.
  • Advocate/Transgender
    All the latest news, commentary, and analysis of issues that impact the transgender community. The Advocate provides up-to-date coverage from around the web about political, medical, and social developments that matter most to transgender people.
  • Washington State LGBTQ Commission
    The Washington State LGBTQ Commission works to improve the state’s interface with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, two-spirit, and intersex community, identify the needs of its members, and ensuring that there is an effective means of advocating for LGBTQ equity in all aspects of state government.
Crisis Intervention & Legal Help
  • Trans Lifeline
    Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.
  • Lambda Legal
    Lambda Legal is fighting back in the courts for LGBTQ+ people and everyone living with HIV.
  • American Civil Liberties Union
    The ACLU works to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people can live openly without discrimination and enjoy equal rights, personal autonomy, and freedom of expression and association.
  • Advocates for Trans Equality
    A4TE is a trans-led nonprofit that fights for the legal and political rights of transgender people in America.
Our Favorite Spots & Businesses