We all know about the trans tax and the hoops involved in funding care! At QueerDoc, we believe that gender affirming care should be affordable and accessible for everyone within our local communities. We don’t live in a country where this is even remotely true. Healthcare in the US is not equitable at all. There are a few organizations offering financial support to transgender and gender diverse folx who need it. We have additional surgery-specific funding resources on our Gender Affirming Surgery page and state-based resources on our State pages.
Some Organizations Offering Funding Support for Gender Affirming Care
- TransMission– The TransMission program provides financial assistance of up to $500 for expenses related to social, legal, medical, or surgical transition. Applicants must be over 18 years of age and reside within the United States. Priority will be given to residents of New York’s Hudson Valley. All are welcome to apply.
- Point of Pride– Point of Pride provides financial aid and direct support to trans folks in need of health and wellness care. They have a surgery, HRT, and a hair removal fund. They also offer free binders and shapewear.
- Trans Lifeline– Trans Lifeline offers grants for legal transition and hair removal. Trans Lifeline also maintains a grants & funding resource list.
- Gender Bands– Gender Bands offers funding for surgery, travel, and other medical and gender expression interventions.
- TransFamilies Support Services– TFSS offers free insurance navigation and gender experssion items (binders, breast forms, clothes, etc)
- Trans Resistance Network– TRN helps fund and support folx who need to relocate.
- Southern Trans Youth Emergency Project– a new regional effort that provides rapid response support directly to the families of youth who are impacted by anti-transgender healthcare bans in the South. Through STYEP, and in close partnership with state and local organizations, they are providing grants, patient navigation support, and accurate information to impacted families to ensure that youth can access the care they need and deserve, even in the face of oppressive laws. They have developed a regional referral network of providers in access states and are helping as many families as they can through this time of crisis.
- Black Transmen Brother2Brother Top Surgery Scholarship and Binder Grants. Black Transmen Inc is a national nonprofit social advocacy organization with a specific focus on empowering African American transgender men by addressing multi-layered issues of injustice faced at the intersections of racial, sexual orientation, and gender identities.
- For the Gworls – a Black trans-led collective that curates parties to fundraise money to help Black transgender people pay for their rent, gender-affirming surgeries, smaller co-pays for medicines/doctor’s visits, and travel assistance.
- The Transcend Campaign – supports transportation costs for individuals in the Upper Midwest to receive out-of-state care. Also supports tuition costs for remote schools for students whose local districts are not safe.
- Arianna’s Center – Emergency stipend program. Consideration is given to the need, urgency, teh level of significant ongoing security risk and the threat of injury or imprisonment or other legal proceedings. May be used for medical expenses. Arianna’s Center serves South Florida and Puerto Rico.
- Autistic People of Color Fund – provides direct financial support to autistic people of color through individual microgrants between $100 and $500. Grants may be used for medical costs.
- DemBois– The financial assistance that Dem Bois Inc. provides will help to elevate the burden of covering the total cost of surgery for individuals who identify as female to male, FTM transgender, and or trans-masculine person(s) of color who cannot afford to obtain chest reconstruction surgery, and or genital reassignment surgery (gender affirming surgery).
- For folx in Florida, checkout potential funding on our Florida resources page.
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