Grab Bag
Free Gender Affirming Gear - We Are Family Charleston offers cost-free gear (binders, packers, tuck kits, etc.) for South Carolina youth *24 years and under.
Name Change Assistance- Transgender Awareness Alliance offers cost-free assistance for folks in South Carolina with obtaining legal name and/or gender marker changes.
Therapy
Free Mental Health Services - We Are Family provides free mental health services for LGBTQI+ youth aged 24 and younger. Clients are paired with a participating counselor based on likely best fit. Complete an application here.
Sander T Jones (she/her) - Georgia-based, licensed to practice in South Carolina. Jones specializes in working with folks from the LGBTQIA+, Polyamory, Kink, BDSM, Sex worker, Adult Film Worker, Transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive communities. $250 per session and worth every penny.
Psychiatry
Sien Rivera, MD ( they/them)- specialties include LGBTQIA-inclusive mental health care, psychoanalytic psychotherapies, and play therapy. Dr. Rivera is a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and is co-chair of the Committee on Gender and Sexuality of the American Psychoanalytic Association. *Requires a referral
Dr. Matthew Gaskins, MD- comprehensive evaluations of adults (age 18-65) seeking psychiatric services for medication assessment and diagnostic clarification. He treats a variety of psychiatric illnesses including but not limited to depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and bipolar disorders. *Requires a referral, does not accept insurance but also doesn’t gatekeep treatment if the client is unable to afford prohibitively expensive diagnostic evaluations.
Hormone Replacement Therapy
Dr. Kristl Vidya Dorschner Tomlin- A LGBTQIA+ allied OB-GYN that provides trauma-informed care and prescribes/manages HRT for trans folks, regardless of gender assigned at birth. Dr. Tomlin is my OB-GYN care provider and as a genderqueer person with a history of sexual trauma, I cannot recommend or hype her up enough.
Planned Parenthood- offers informed consent HRT scripts and management.
Gender-Affirming Surgery
Dr. Nikki Burish - an LGBTQIA+ allied plastic surgeon affiliated with Prisma Health Richland Hospital. Dr. Burish performs a wide range of gender-affirming surgeries for folks across the gender spectrum.
Dr. Brian Cope- An absolute treasure of a urologist. Dr. Cope performs orchiectomies for folks across the gender spectrum. Dr. Cope is family, providing affirming care in a safe space.