AVITALE.com

AVOC :Aids Volunteers of Cincinnati

Central Ohio CD Support: an organization set up to support crossdressers and their spouses/significant others. Their goal is to provide a safe, secure meeting place where crossdressers (both male and female) can meet others like themselves in a comfortable setting.

Cincinnati GLBT News: Greater Cincinnati GLBT News The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender newspaper.

Cincinnati Pride Alive  Join your friends, family, & GLBT supporters Saturday June 14th & Sunday June 15th for the tri-state's Pride Alive 2008! Last year, about 15,000 people participated in the celebration.

CDSO Online:  THIS FORUM IS FOR WIVES AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS ONLY!!!!!  
CROSSDRESSERS, PLEASE DO NOT APPLY!!!!!!!!!!!!! A forum for all genetic women involved with cross dressers. Intended to be a safe haven for women to discuss, find, and offer support in the context of their marriage/partnerships with heterosexual cross dressing husbands. An incubator, if you will. We have women just finding out about their husbands' cross dressing, in the grip of fear and turmoil, women who have accepted and appreciated their husbands' cross dressing, and women who do not accept ANY part of it!

Community Center Cincinnati :Monday-Friday 6pm-9pm, Saturdays noon-4pm. It is our goal to foster empowerment in each individual who walks through our doors and give everyone a better sense of the GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) community spirit.

The Crystal Club Support group based in the Columbus, Ohio area.

Depression-screening.org Life is full of good times and bad, happiness and sorrow. But if you've been feeling "down" for more than a few weeks or are having difficulty functioning in daily life, you may be experiencing more than just the "blues." You may be suffering from a common yet serious medical illness called clinical depression. 

Erie Sisters Transgender Support Group Based in Erie, Pa. There home on the web includes articles, horoscopes, columns, crossdressing tips, pictures [no
nudity] and other information about their small sorority of sisters, how to join,
national transgender issues and their Lake Erie Gala.

FemDirectory A comprehensive listing of Transgendered, and cross-dressing related resources.

IFGE The International Foundation for Gender Education. They have a searchable database for support groups.

Gender.Org Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA) is a national organization focused on the needs, issues and concerns of gender variant people in human society.

GenderPAC Devoted to building a national movement for gender civil rights because we believe gender rights are human rights. Be sure to see In Your Face, a national online news service.

GenderTalk A worldwide weekly radio program that talks about transgenderism in the first person. Each week presents news, information, and exciting new voices that challenge our traditional view of gender.

Gianna E. Israel: Gender library/therapist

Ingersoll Center: A full range of services to gender dysphoric clients such as referrals to therapists, support and peer counseling pertaining to issues of daily living, changes in lifestyle, preparation for surgery, and post-operative care. We offer support groups in a friendly, low-stress setting where cross dressing is encouraged, but never required.

Inside Intersexuality: People born apparently in-between what are known as "normal" (average) sexes, within a physical sense (males with male genitalia and females with female genitalia). There are those who appear to be males but are medically/biologically females, and others with female physical attributes that are medically/biologically males. There are also some whoís external sex is indeterminant, as well as those of us having appearances of both, externally, and having the DNA chromosome karyotypes of both sexes.

Looking Glass Society: A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting understanding and acceptance of Transsexual/Gender Dysphoric people. It publishes a range of booklets concerning the condition and engages in education work, particularly aimed at people involved in caring for or working with those with Gender Dysphoria. Based in the South-West of England, so many of our publications reflect a UK perspective. We hope they will still be interesting to non-UK readers, though!

Melanie Anne Phillips Founder of the Transgender Community Forum on America Online. totally awesome gal and web site-highly recommended! Also famous for her "Melanie Speaks" tape teaching how to speak in a feminine voice.

National Depression Screening Day Held each year during Mental Illness Awareness Week, is designed to call attention to the illnesses of depression and manic-depression on a national level, to educate the public about their symptoms and effective treatments, to offer individuals the opportunity to be screened for the disorders, and to connect those in need of treatment to the mental health care system. Year Round Depression Screening On-Line Site Locator

National Institute of Mental Health The principal biomedical and behavioral research agency of the United States Government.

The National Organization for Women Home Page N.O.W.: Passed a resolution welcoming transgender women inclusion into the organization

PFLAG and PFLAG Cincinnati Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Excellent web-site, something for everyone.

Pridelinks: The Internet's premiere Gay, Lesbian, Bi and Trans* search Engine. Links, resources, information, support or just fun.

Rainbow Cincinnati Electronic Community for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People.

Remembering Our Dead There is no ìsafe wayî to be transgendered: as you look at the many names collected here, note that some of these people may have identified as drag queens, some as heterosexual cross dressers, and some as transsexuals. Some were living very out lives, and some were living fully ìstealthî lives. Some were identifying as male, and some, as female. Some lived in small towns, and some in major metropolitan areas.

Renaissance Background Paper #1:Myths & Misconceptions About Cross-dressers

Renaissance Transgender Assoc., Inc.: Resources for female to male Transgendered people.

TGGuide: Provide the most comprehensive resources for the TransGender Community with one of the largest collections of informative texts on the web. Whether you need help determining your size, coming out to your family, or learning about how the law affects you; the answer is right here!

TGNOW.com: Cross dressing & Transgender Resource Directory. Huge resource for all kinds of things and pages! Check this one out!!

Note about the above link: There are transgender sites all over the Web. Those of us who are part of this community--cross dressers, transvestites and transsexuals--have created pages and sites where we can express ourselves and chat with each other. But our loved ones have been pretty much left out of all this. Even sites that have some support, often require you to start at a TG person's Home Page that has a beautiful (but possibly upsetting) photograph at the top, not this one.

Transgender at Work: 03/26/00 Transgendered people suffer tremendous discrimination in employment.  Indeed, it's part of our culture that if you admit to cross dressing, or plan to change your sex, you'll be automatically fired. But all that is changing.

The TransGenderGuide: Comprehensive resources

Transgender Research Questionnaire

Trans-Health 11/15/2002 A quarterly online magazine of health and fitness for Transgendered and transsexual people

Transsexuality: What it is, how it exists, what to do about it, and even some thoughts about the why of it too.

TruVoice:  TG/TS Voice and Communication Therapy