By making a contribution to support the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health, you are making gender affirmation a reality for our patients. The center is about more than the surgeries and procedures. The surgical and nonsurgical services we provide can save lives. By supporting the center, you can help people live as their authentic selves and achieve their maximum potential.

At the Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health, we provide a holistic treatment plan for transgender individuals through access to Johns Hopkins specialists in dermatology, urology, plastic surgery, laryngology/voice services, Gyn/Ob, endocrinology, and pediatric and adolescent care.

The path to gender affirmation is different for everyone, but a gift to the center helps ensure that lack of access to care and financial constraints do not impact a patient’s ability or decision to pursue treatment.

Clinical outcomes research is a vital component of the Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health. We focus on tracking patient-reported outcomes to evaluate the impact of treatment on quality of life, and on identifying at-risk populations for targeted interventions and improving surgical outcomes. 

In addition to performing clinical studies, the center is one of the only places in the world working on basic science regenerative medicine research for transgender health. We are part of the Johns Hopkins Translational Tissue Engineering Center, and our research focuses on creating new scientific innovations for transgender patients and addressing deficiencies in existing surgical techniques that lead to high complication rates. Your donation helps drive this innovative research.

Historically, transgender care has been absent from formal education and training across all health disciplines. This is a major contributing factor to the health disparities facing the transgender community. By educating the next generation of health care professionals, the center will lessen a known barrier to care and provide greater access to care from culturally and clinically competent providers.

Your support will further fundamental cultural competency training for both clinicians and nonclinicians across our health system. It will help build transgender health care into our residency and staff education activities. In addition, it will provide financial support for sending direct-patient-care practitioners to national training conferences to enhance their clinical skills.

Gifts of all sizes help the Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health to continue our ongoing efforts as a leader in compassionate care and innovative research for patients and their families. Gifts made with a check or credit card, providing immediate support to the center.

Contributions to the Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health can be unrestricted and used where the need is greatest. Gifts can also be designated to support a specific doctor. Gifts can also be made in memory of a loved one or to honor someone special in your life.

Gifts can be made outright or pledged over a period of up to five years.

Many employers offer a matching gift program to their employees. For every dollar you donate to the Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health, your employer will match it either dollar for dollar, two dollars to one dollar, or, in more generous cases, three dollars to one dollar. All you need is a Matching Gift Form from your employer’s Public Affairs Department. Complete the section designated for employees and mail the form to us. We will take care of all the other details and paperwork.

There are many opportunities to commemorate family members, friends, or colleagues on a birthday, anniversary, or another special occasion. Gifts can be made to the Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health in honor of a special physician, for example, who has played a significant role in your health. These gifts are greatly appreciated by the people being honored and their families.

A gift made to the Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health in memory of a person who has passed away is a special way to honor a beloved friend or family member. Such a gift creates a legacy and memorializes the person by providing direct support to the center. 

Gift planning allows our donors to thoughtfully choose ways of giving that meet their needs—and the needs of the the Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health. A development director from the center and the Johns Hopkins Institutions, Office of Gift Planning can provide you with information on effective charitable planning options so that you can achieve optimum tax, financial, and philanthropic results.

Learn more about gift planning.