Services

A range of community resources are available to students, faculty, staff, alumni and visitors to accommodate the university community's needs. It is important to note that these lists are not exhaustive, and we continually work on updating this list of resources.

Community Resources and Support Groups

In, Out and In-Between

In, Out and In-Between meets on Fridays at 1 pm. and is for all LGBTQIA+ students — whether out, questioning, or unsure — to discuss and explore aspects of sexual orientation and gender identity in a safe space.

2STN Support Group

The 2STN Support Group meets on Fridays at 3 p.m. and is specific to Two Spirit, Transgender and Nonbinary students to build community and share issues regarding gender identity.

Call the Counseling Center at 410-704-2512 to check on availability in these groups.

A social organization geared towards transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming individuals, as well as those that are affirming of non-binary identities. The goal of TransBaltimore is to provide a safe space for transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming individuals to engage in informative discussions and affirming social interactions.

The group meets every other Monday from 5:30 to 7 p.m., in person at the Pride Center of Maryland, 2122 Maryland Ave, Baltimore.

There are also virtual meetings every week. Contact Devine Bey at 443-703-6749 or devine@pridecentermd.org for more information.

T4T (Trans for Trans) is an online space for peer-to-peer support weekly meetings from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays.

These groups are for trans Marylanders 18+. Trans means that the gender assignment when you were born is no longer accurate for you. Nonbinary and agender folks are warmly welcome in this space.

Fill out an Intake Form to participate in the online Zoom (free) group meetings.

Sponsored by Black Transmen Inc, the Akanni support group provides a safe, respectful, confidential environment open to transmen of all stages of transition. The group meets every first and third Wednesday online.

Based in Baltimore, the Baltimore Nonbinary Gender Support Community is for nonbinary individuals offering various events monthly.

State and Local Non-Discrimination Policies

Baltimore City Non-Discrimination Policy

Council Bill 02-0857, signed into law on December 6, 2002, prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or gender expression in the areas of housing, employment, and public accommodations in Baltimore City.

Maryland Non-Discrimination Policy

Maryland State Law does not currently include “gender identity” as a protected class and on a state level discrimination on the basis of gender identity is not prohibited.

Gender Affirming Care

An “informed consent model” is one in which medical providers explain risks and benefits of hormone treatment and receives the person’s consent rather than needing approval from a mental health provider. A letter from a mental health provider and MD is still needed for surgical procedures.

Gender Affirming Care Providers


Planned Parenthood of Maryland offers gender affirming healthcare, including hormone therapy for individuals aged 16 and older (Parental/guardian consent required for those younger than18 years); resources and referrals for primary care, mental health, surgery, dental care, legal services, electrolysis and support groups; and sensitive sexual/reproductive health care and preventive screenings.

Telehealth appointments are available and can be scheduled by calling 410-576-1414.

Founded in 1978 as the gay health clinic at the GLCCB (now the Pride Center of Maryland), Chase Brexton Health Services is a provider of patient-centered interdisciplinary health care for diverse communities including those individuals who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender; HIV infected and affected; and all others who face barriers accessing quality health care.

Chase Brexton offers hormone treatments for transgender individuals looking to transition. They also offer a variety of other transgender specific services. Chase Brexton has multiple locations, including one in Baltimore and Randallstown.

Your Trans Care (YTC)  is a specialty program for transgender people 12 to 21 years old looking for excellent health care. YTC offers primary care and a range of unique services for transgender individuals and their friends, family and significant others. Our trans specific services include: free support provided by transgender peer navigators, access and management of hormone therapy and puberty blockers, trans affirming gynecological services, individual and group counseling for transgender people, customized support and guidance for families, friends, and partners of transgender clients, counseling, referrals, clinical letter of support, and coordination for gender affirming surgery, medical and non-medical case management, and transgender specific health education workshops and materials. More information can be found at their website.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health offers comprehensive, evidence-based and affirming care for transgender youth and adults including non-surgical and surgical services that is in line with the standards of care set by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).

Located in Washington D.C., Whitman-Walker Health provides a safe, respectful and affirming environment that meets the needs of transgender and gender-nonconforming patients. They offer both medical care and mental and behavioral health services.

Sugar is a lesbian owned, women and trans-operated sexual education center and store. Sugar carries products for lesbian, gay, straight, transgender and all individuals looking to explore their sexuality. Sugar carries a variety of transgender specific products such as chest binders (a tank top type of clothing that restricts a person’s breast tissue for the appearance of a flat or masculine chest) and packers (artificial penises that can be worn in a person’s underwear or with a packer harness to create a male-looking and/or male-feeling bulge in one’s crotch). Sugar also offers a variety of sex education classes. Some of the past classes have focused on transgender sex and how to be comfortable sexually in a body that you do not identify with or feel comfortable in.

Sugar is located at 927 W. 36th St. on the Avenue in Hampden Baltimore, MD. For more information call 410-467-2632.

Trans/Nonbinary-Friendly Therapists

Bmore Liberated

Bmore Liberated is a collective of queer identified therapists whose passion lies in providing affirming and liberating mental health services for folks who may experience any and all forms of oppression.

Chase Brexton Health Care
Multiple locations
410-837-2050
In network providers for some insurance

East Towson Psychological Services
920 Providence Road, Suite 101
Towson, MD 21286
877-893-5480
In network providers for some insurance

Greater Baltimore Counseling Centers
List of LGBTQ affirming therapists
Baltimore, Lutherville Timonium
410-760-9079
In network providers for some insurance

Reclaim and Rise
3600 Clipper Mill Road Suite 221
Baltimore, Maryland 21211
(410) 835 - 4696
Out of network billing

Sean Lare,  LCSW-C
6851 Oak Hall Lane
Suite 118
Columbia, Maryland 21045
(410) 695-6688
Out of network billing

Shawn V. MacDonald, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist
4400 East West Highway, Suite 1028
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone: 301-358-6421
In network provider for some insurance

National Queer and Trans Therapist of Color Network
Search by address

Pro Bono Counseling Project
Located throughout Maryland
For uninsured and underinsured
410-825-1001

Tosh Provancher, LCMFT
10 W Eager St 
Suite 303
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
(443) 569-7829
In network provider for some insurance

Psychology Today Therapist Finder
Search by address and issue

Digital Transgender Resource and Applications

Refuge Restrooms

Refuge Restrooms is 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.

Virtual Transgender Voice Training

Voice training can help transgender individuals feel closer to how they identify and reduce the stress and dysphoria they experience. The following resources are available for trans voice training on and offline. To learn more, review this article that summarizes and includes criticism of the effort.

Eva (Exceptional Voice App)

Eva (Exceptional Voice App) is a voice-training mobile app for transgender people. This app provides step-by-step lessons and courses for voice feminization.

Christella Voiceup

Christella Voiceup is an app for voice feminization through exercises and stage by stage lessons.

TransVoiceLessons

TransVoiceLessons is a website that offers free resources to sound more masculine, feminine, or androgynous.

Trans and Non Binary Services and Resources

Planned Parenthood offers a quick guide on how to come out.

Crisis Hotlines

The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project operates the leading nationwide, around the clock suicide prevention helpline for LGBTQ youth. Every day, the Trevor Project saves lives through its free and confidential helpline, its website and its educational services. For more information call 1-866-488-7386.

Transgender Pulse

Pulse provides support for transgender, genderqueer, intersex and androgynous. This chat room is a live support moderated chatroom for trans individuals. All full moderators of this chat have taken a youth suicide prevention course and are prepared to talk to and help suicidal individuals.

Additional Queer Services and Resources

The Pride Center of Maryland

The Pride Center of Maryland offers over 30 programs and services that reflect our dedication to ensuring Maryland’s sexual and gender minority community have equal access to care, services and a space where they can be their authentic selves. Each year, we serve thousands of Maryland residents in order to fulfill our commitment of uniting, empowering, and advocating on behalf of sexual and gender minorities of Baltimore and Central Maryland.

Chase Brexton Health Services

Baltimore OUTloud

AIDS Action Baltimore (AAB)

AIDS Action Baltimore (AAB) has been providing essential services to people with HIV/AIDS since 1987.

Baltimore Pride

Each year in June, PCOM kicks off Pride Month in celebration of Baltimore’s vibrant SGL community. Baltimore Pride has grown from a small rally of a dozen activists in 1975, to a cavalcade of diversity showcasing the energy, culture and experience of our SGM community to more than 30,000 revelers each year.

Safe Haven

The Safe Haven Shelter is a city wide shelter funded by HUD and administered by UMMS at which individuals with a history of homelessness and mental illness receive mental health services from any one of the city's mobile treatment teams. For more information call 410-732-1390.

The Maryland Trans Resilience Conference

The Maryland Trans Resilience Conference aims to build community and solidarity among transgender communities in Maryland and to offer opportunities for connections and capacity-building for trans people.