Transgender-sensitive health care providers in NYC

Wednesday, July 15. 2009

Update (8/20/2009): You can now download "Transgender Health Care Provider Directory" in PDF (8MB).

NYAGRA's Transgender Health Care Provider Directory (New York City Metropolitan Area)

NYAGRA's Transgender Health Care Provider Directory (New York City Metropolitan Area)

On July 21, the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) will distribute copies of the first public directory of transgender-sensitive providers in the New York City metropolitan area ever published. The Gender Identity Project (GIP) of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (208 W. 13th St. in Manhattan) will host a special event from 7-9 p.m. at which hundreds of copies of the provider directory will be distributed to members of the transgender community. The directory – which includes of physicians, mental health professionals, acupuncturists, and AIDS agencies as well as other health care providers – is a project of the Transgender Health Initiative of New York (THINY), a community organizing project whose goal is to ensure that transgendered and gender non-conforming people can access health care in a safe, respectful and non-discriminatory manner. THINY was established by the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF), NYAGRA, and the Center GIP in 2004 and has been coordinated by TLDEF staff since then.

Transgendered and gender-variant people face pervasive discrimination and insensitivity when trying to access on health care in New York City and its metropolitan area. Up until now, community members could access transgender-sensitive physicians and other health care providers through referrals from the GIP and other social service providers, but there has never been a published directory of such health care providers available to the general public. The 26-page NYAGRA directory was compiled by Kelly White under the direction of Pauline Park, chair of the NYAGRA board of directors. White is a Cornell University student who joined NYAGRA in June 2009 as part of a paid summer internship through the Cornell Urban Scholars Program (CUSP).

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Can it be downloaded on-line?

#1 Anonymous on 2009-07-24 12:22

Hi- I'm not really sure about that. You might wan to try getting in touch with the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA). The link to their site is at the top of the post (http://www.nyagra.com/).

#1.1 Sascha on 2009-08-19 22:56

I just checked with NYAGRA and the provider directory is now available as a PDF download here: http://www.transgenderlegal.org/media/uploads/doc_178.pdf

#1.2 Sascha on 2009-08-20 00:08

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