Top Gifts for Transgender Family and Friends
Show your love and appreciation for your Transgender family and friends with these go-to gifts perfect for any occasion.
Anti-Transgender Violence Warning Signs & Prevention Tips
Anti-transgender violence and abuse come in many forms. Our counselors can help you if you’re experiencing these signs of violence.
Stressing About College
It is halfway through September, during the disastrous 2020, and if you are a senior in high school considering the next steps in education, college is on your mind. So many choices, both academically and geographically-and if you are trans, further complicated by...
Transgender in the Workplace
Anyone in the LGBTQI community, whether working in an office or a construction site, is nervous about how their coworkers will treat them once they learn whatever truth they are living. While it has undoubtedly become more commonplace to be accepting of homosexuality...
Trust is a Tricky Thing
Trust is a tricky thing. Once it’s been broken, it isn’t easy to regain, especially today, when you don’t need special equipment to take damning photographic and/or video evidence of wrongdoing, and the internet makes sure that all of it is disseminated and preserved...
Tele-therapy Services for Groups and Individuals
There is a need right now, more than ever before, and I am not just being prosaic, for connection. I can only speak for the people I know, but despair is the real enemy here, despite the frightening specter of Covid and the fact that the US government seems to be...
What is EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, called EMDR, is a form of therapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and distress they experience due to disturbing life experiences. People suffer from anxiety and other forms of distress when a...
Paying It Forward
There really is so much negativity in the news today, between the pandemic still holding on, joblessness increasing, and racial tensions being shown in stark relief. With so many social issues churning in the world today, knowing where and when to focus charitable...
Abuse in Quarantine
The news has attempted to further the concept of family togetherness while the Stay-at-Home orders are in place across the country. We are all trying to realize that silver lining. What hasn’t been receiving the necessary attention is how being forced to stay isolated...
Reassignment Surgery is Essential Surgery
Amid this pandemic that has left the world woefully unprepared, and our medical professionals struggling to provide care, it’s been all hands on deck to combat this crisis. One thing that’s become clear is that there aren’t enough hands to manage what is an...
Physical Distancing, Not Social Distancing – Announcement Regarding the 2020 New York Coming Out Conference
With all of the precautions New York City and State are taking along with the rest of the country, we hear the phrase "Social Distancing." We want to correct the phrase to "Physical Distancing," as we believe that being social is more important now than ever. As a...
College Age and Trans
Given the disheartening rates of depression and suicidal behaviors associated with the transgender school-aged youths in grades K-12, the prospect of furthering education in college can present those approaching college consideration with equal parts excitement and...