What is the Gender Identity Center?
The Gender Identity Center of Colorado, Inc., (GIC) is a non-profit corporation organized in 1978 to provide support to those people who cross dress, are transsexual, or are experiencing gender identity confusion. The Center is also an informational and educational resource to the community at large.
The G.I.C. is available to anyone, male or female, who can benefit from its services or resources, including spouses and significant others, parents, and siblings of the primary participants.
The G.I.C. is a tax exempt, 501(3)c nonprofit corporation which provides these public services to the community, but receives none of its support from tax dollars. It is funded by collection of door fees for meetings, tuition for seminars and workshops, membership dues and donations. Receipts can be given for any donation of money or materials.
Our Purpose
Gender Dysphoria
Guilt, Shame and Fear
You Are Not Alone
Your Are Not Evil
Meeting Schedule
Door Fees
Memberships
How to Find Us?
Our Purpose
The Purpose of the Gender Identity Center of Colorado, Inc. is to provide support, information and referrals to transgendered people, their families and friends, and to educate the community-at-large.
To accomplish this, the G.I.C. holds meetings in groups, seminars, and workshops in a safe accessible location, publishes a newsletter, and maintains an excellent library of books, and video and audio tapes on gender related subjects.
We conduct outreach to the community-at-large by speaking at colleges, churches and other community forums. We also provide researchers, journalists and medical professionals access to the special information that will increase their understanding of gender related life issues. In addition to our newsletter, the Journal, the G.I.C. also has available for sale, Tapestry, the official magazine of the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) and Crosstalk, a specialized magazine covering transgender topics.
Our meetings are conducted with rules in force that assure safety and confidentiality. The G.I.C. is not a sexual pick-up place, and intoxication is NOT permitted. The meetings are not therapy nor a substitute for therapy. They are very helpful.
Gender Dysphoria
First, gender is NOT the same as sex: gender is how one feels inside, while sex is the physical reality. Gender dysphoria is a persistent condition of conflict between one's birth sex and feeling of gender. Dysphoria is from the Greek language and means "hard to bear." It is often quite painful. Many transgendered people feel that "I should have been born a girl/boy!" while others wonder why they enjoy wearing clothes considered appropriate to the other sex.
Guilt, Shame, and Fear are Common Emotions Associated with Gender Dysphoria
Those of us who feel gender dysphoria have often hidden our true fellings from those around us. Our culture would have us believe that we are somehow sick or perverted. This causes internal conflict that manifests as tremendous guilt, shame and fear. These emotions flow from our own self-imposed ignorance.
You are Not Alone.
We Understand
the Fear and Pain of Gender Identity Issues, and We Can Help.
The Gender Identity Center is composed of people who have a widely varied spectrum of life experiences with gender dysphoria. Our purpose is to provide support in a safe and confidential setting. We do this through sharing our life stories and learning from the experiences of others. Through supporting each other in times of crisis and growth, we help healing to begin.
You Are Not Evil, Perverted, or a Sinner
The Gender Identity Center helps individuals to understand themselves and to learn how they may uniquely define and express their gender identity. We also help people to understand the distinction between gender identity and sexual orientation. We respect individual worth and value diversity. We help people open their minds to new possibilities beyond our society's arbitrary gender definitions.
Crossdressing and transsexualism have manifested in every culture in every time throughout human history. Ignorance, which results in fear and intolerance, costs good people their jobs, their families and even their lives.
Meeting Schedule
Open Meetings
- Mondays 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
- Saturdays 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
- Open meetings are general discussion groups for those experiencing gender identity or crossdressing issues, as well as their families and friends. Pot Luck and Movie night first Saturday meeting of each month!
Grupo de Apoyo Biling¸e
Bilingual Support Group- Thursdays, jueves, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
- This is a
general discussion group on issues of gender identity, gender
expression and sexual orientation, and families and friends
are most welcome.
Este ser· un grupo de discusiÛn acerca de asuntos sobre la indentidad de gÈnero, expresiÛn del gÈnero y la orientaciÛn sexual; familiares, amistades y aliados ser·n muy bienvenidos.
- Contact the Center for details.
Para m·s informaciÛn, favor de llamar al (303) 202-6466.
Transitions
- Weekly
- This group is for all transsexuals and focuses on issues of of gender identity transition and living in the other gender role. Discussions include how to tell loved ones, how to transition at work, how to accomplish legal changes, hormonal health issues, and sex reassignment surgery.
- Contact the Center for details.
F-t-M Group
- Monthly
- A once a month meeting for the special issues of female-to-male transsexuals.
- Contact the Center for details.
Spiritual Journey with Rev. Jeremy Mcleod
- Monthly, Third Wednesdays 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
- Open to all.
Crossdressers' Guide
- Fridays 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
- This group is for crossdressers and their significant others. The meetings often include discussions on how to dress, do makeup, deportment, where to go safely, and relationship issues.
Couples and Significant Others
- Available upon need.
Door Fees
Door fees for scheduled meetings are the greatest source of support for the center.- Members............. $3.00
- Non-members.... $5.00
- First time visitors: free
Memberships
- Two Year .................... $96 plus 5 free meetings
- Regular One Year...... $48.00
- Regular Six Months... $30.00
- Sustaining One Year.. $96.00
- Circle of Friends - pledge at least $10 per month in addition to a six month or one year regular membership
- Lifetime ..................... $1000.00
- Business One Year...... $125.00
- Newsletter Only......... $25.00
How to Find Us?
The Gender Identity Center of Colorado, Inc.
1455 Ammons Street
Suite 100 Lakewood
Colorado 80215-4993
(303) 202-6466
| About three miles west of I25 on Colfax or about three miles south of I70/76 on Wadsworth |  |
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Four blocks west of Wadsworth and 1/2 block south of Colfax |