Resources

Emergency Support

  • Campaign for Southern Equality

    Campaign for Southern Equality is providing small grants ($500), as of May 2023, to individuals affected by Florida’s anti-trans legislative and administrative attacks. Families of trans youth and certain trans adults are eligible to get help with immediate needs, such as travel expenses, medication costs, and mental health or wellness requirements.

  • Point of Pride

    Point of Pride provides financial aid to trans folks in need of gender-affirming health care. Also free chest binders and femme shapewear.

  • Emergency Relocation

    Project Open Arms is a grassroots resettlement project to help support red state “transplants” – trans+ people and their families – seeking safer, more welcoming places to live.

    Move to Thrive offers interest-free loans of up to $10,000 for individuals and families to support relocation costs to another state because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence. 

  • Crisis Support

    Trans Lifeline is a peer support phone service run by trans people for trans and questioning peers. Call if you need someone trans to talk to, even if you’re not in a crisis or if you’re not sure you’re trans.

    The Trevor Project offers crisis support via online chat, telephone, and text.

  • Travel Assistance

    Elevated Access connects you with volunteer pilots who transport passengers at no cost to access the healthcare they need.

Social Support

  • Gainesville Pride Center

    Pride Community Center of North Central Florida is a safe space for the LGBTQ+ Community in North Central Florida. Hosts events and has a lending library. You can follow the Pride Center on Facebook or Instagram.

  • Tranquility

    TranQuility is “a social group for transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in North Central Florida.” Times and locations of the activities vary.

  • Transcending Adolescence

    Transcending Adolescence camp and family retreats for trans and nonbinary individuals under age 21 and their families.

  • Unspoken Treasure Society

    Unspoken Treasure Society “exists to inspire, empower, uplift, and create platforms to give a voice to voiceless transgender and gender non-conforming persons of marginalized communities.” It has chapters in Gainesville, Jacksonville, and Atlanta. In Gainesville it meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm at the Pride Center.

  • PFLAG Gainesville

    PFLAG helping LGBTQ+ youth & adults in Gainesville, FL and surrounding areas feel safe, celebrated, empowered, & loved.

  • Equality Florida

    Parenting with Pride creates communities where every LGBTQ+ child feels safe, affirmed, and loved.

Health Care

Legal Resources

  • Southern Legal Counsel (SLC)

    Southern Legal Counsel’s (SLC) Transgender Rights Initiative (TRI) seeks to fill gaps in access to justice for transgender Floridians by utilizing federal impact litigation, systemic advocacy, policy reform, and individual representation.Civil rights litigation and the Florida Name Change online tool.

  • Stop-Gap Florida

    Stop-Gap Florida was created as a stop-gap measure until such a time as transgender and gender non-conforming people are able to live safely and authentically in Florida, with the hope that gender affirming persecution will eventually cease. Founded upon the belief that knowledge is power, it is a repository of current information concerning the legal landscape in Florida, providing helpful tools and resources to navigate it.

  • Transgender Law Center

    Transgender Law Center champions the rights of all transgender and gender-nonconforming people to make their own choices and live freely, safely, and authentically by advancing community-driven strategies. Their Legal Information Helpdesk provides basic information regarding laws and policies in the United States that affect transgender people across many areas, including employment, health care, housing, civil rights, immigration, prisoners’ rights, and identity document changes. Please note they cannot provide individualized legal advice or representation through their Legal Information Helpdesk.

  • National Center for Trans Equality (NCTE)

    More about changing ID documents in Florida

    Guía de Cambio de Nombre y Género para Residents de la Florida

  • NCTE Guide for Minors in Florida

    For minors in Florida: Name and gender change support

State Resources

  • Equality Florida

    Equality Florida is the largest civil rights organization dedicated to securing full equality for Florida’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community. We're changing Florida through lobbying, grassroots organizing, education, and coalition building

National Resources

  • Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE)

    A4TE was founded in 2024 as the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF), two long-time champions for the trans community, merged together as one organization. A4TE builds on their successes to boldly imagine a world where trans people live our lives joyfully and without barriers. Advocates for the legal and political rights of transgender people in America.

  • A4TE Trans Health Project

    The Advocates for Trans Quality (A4TE) Trans Health Project aims to ensure all transgender and non-binary people can access the trans-related health care they need.

  • Genderbands

    Genderbands: Among other projects, provides small grants for any transition-related procedure and travel related to transition procedure. The grant application period is Oct 1 to Nov 30 every year.

  • LGBTQ Teens Online Talk Group

    The LGBTQ Teens Online Talk Group is a weekly moderated group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth ages 19 and younger to talk in a safe space and to be able to fully express themselves without fear of being made to feel uncomfortable or unwelcome. This group is a place to discuss concerns and issues and to talk about personal victories.

  • Trans Teen Chatroom

    Trans Teen Chatroom (moderated), a project of the LGBT National Help Center. For trans, nonbinary and gender-expansive youth ages 19 and younger. Thursdays and Fridays, 7:00-10:00 pm Eastern time.

  • Refuge Restrooms

    Refuge Restrooms: A web application that seeks to provide safe restroom access for transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals. Users can search for restrooms by proximity to a search location, add new restroom listings, as well as comment and rate existing listings.

  • SPARTA

    SPARTA is a transgender military advocacy organization. Provides transgender service members with support and mentoring, educates commanders, lawmakers, service members, and the public on transgender service concerns and best practices, and advocates for the legal right of transgender service members to serve openly, authentically, and as their affirming gender.

  • Trans Justice Funding Project (TJFP)

    Trans Justice Funding Project (TJFP) is a community-run, non-charitable trust that funds Trans-led grassroots organizations in the US and US Territories who exist to serve and improve the lives of their local and national trans, gender non-conforming and non-binary communities.

  • Transgender American Veterans Association (TAVA)

    Transgender American Veterans Association is a membership group open to anyone who served in the United States Armed Forces, educating civilian and military communities and advocating for broader military inclusion and expanded healthcare, including but not limited to the coverage of gender-affirming health care by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).