The Happy Transgender Center
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Gender Confirmation Surgery Grant
Each year, The Happy Transgender Center fund raises and utilizes 100% of donations to pay for gender confirmation surgery for at least one transgender man or woman. All surgeries are performed by highly skilled trans-expert surgeons and we follow the guidelines for surgery as set forth by WPATH.
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our organization aims to save transgender lives one surgery at a time! We do this by paying for transgender confirmation surgeries and we are partnered with some of. the best and most experienced gender surgeons in the USA to do this. We also follow the WPATH'S set guidelines. As a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), our clinical director also provides transition support therapy both prior and after the surgery grant recipient accepts their funds for surgery. We aim to provide financial and emotional support to our grant recipients and empower them to live authentically by having their gender confirming and affirming surgeries.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Each year, we will hold multiple fundraising events which could feature transgender fashion shows and musical performances to fundraise for the gender confirmation surgery grant. We will also promote and accept online donations as well as in person donations at the numerous LGBTQ pride and other events held annually.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Our organization is well grounded within the LGBT non profit community within Los Angeles and maintains a strong tie with agency leaders working within the community as well as maintaining strong relationships with gender confirming surgeons throughout the nation. Applications for the grant come online but also from direct referrals from transgender specific agencies and clinics serving the trans population. We have a team of volunteers who review the more than 1000 applications that come in annually and coordinate with the recipient as well as the gender confirming surgeons office to arrange surgery dates and ensure that WPATH safety and qualification guidelines are met and maintained. We also have a strong connection to the Transgender advisory council of Los Angeles and collaborate with multiple transgender affirming agencies to fundraise for the grant. 100% of donations to our non-profit are used to fund the surgery grant and this makes it easy to utilize all funds to serve our mission to help transgender individuals live their authentic ives if they need medical gender confirming surgery to do so.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since 2012, prior to becoming a non-profit, we were using music sales and book sales by our founding/clinical director and fellow trans man, Dr Rizi Timane, to pay for transgender confining surgeries. He was inspired to start doing this after paying for his own gender surgeries through this means. We have paid for 8 transgender persons gender confirming surgeries this way! In last 2018, other transgender community leaders noticed our work and encouraged to form an official non profit corporation so that people could support us by doing more than just buying one copy of a book or an iTunes single which led to the incorporation into a non-profit which we just competed this year (2019). If we could help 8 transgender people transition medically without being a non profit and with no donor support, imagine how many lives we can help transform with public support now! We are looking forward to doing so many more of these live saving gender transition surgeries!
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The Happy Transgender Center
Board of directorsas of 11/20/2020