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Gender Identity Project
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The Gender Identity Project acts as a national clearinghouse for trans issues, information and concerns and stands as a model of the first transgender project initiated and fully supported within a Community Center focused on the needs of the greater queer community. The GIP receives funding from a variety of both private and public funding sources. |
The GIP was conceived in 1989, when Dr. Barbara Warren, then the director of the Center’s Project Connect Alcohol and Drug program, met with several trans-people to discuss their concerns. Barbara responded and began to work with trans-activists Riki Anne Wilchins and Kathy Ottersten to provide a setting where people of transexual experience might be able to gather together and work on issues specific to them.
The GIP was inaugurated with a core volunteer staff including men and women of transexual experience, Yvonne Ritter, Rachel Pollack, Riki Wilchins, Toni Gilligan, Christian O’Neal and Kathy Ottersten.
| You can reach us via e-mail at gip@gaycenter.org, or call 212.620.7310 and ask to speak with a Center CARE counselor. Sign up for the GIP newsletter |