Who We Are

By Jaden.

TRANSlate Health is a community-based action group led by gender diverse Ohioans. We are creating safer, healthier communities by improving the accessibility of healthcare for transgender people by: providing peer-to-peer education, training members of the healthcare field, and providing transportation to transgender individuals in need.

Mission

TRANSlate Health is an Ohio-focused advocacy group of non-cisgender people who first serve non-cisgender people through education and improving access to care.

Vision

We envision a future of safe and healthy communities with easy access to integrated healthcare.

Details

Starting around the end of 2019, a group of trans people, which we define as anyone who is not cisgender, gathered at the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland to talk about our experiences in healthcare. We figured out that

(1) healthcare professionals all too often don’t really understand us and

(2) we have a hard time understanding the healthcare system because – let’s face it – the system wasn’t built with us in mind.

So, what are we to do? Bite our tongues, keep our heads down, and hope for the best? Well, that’s not going to help anyone improve or get the care they have a right to receive. Do we seek help from established organizations? Sure, that works some of the time. But lots of us already do that and we’re still left with problems 1 and 2.

Thus, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to TRANSlate (see what we did there?) our problems into actionable solutions. We tried this in 2020, but there weren’t a lot of us working on it and we burned out. But yet, here we are, at it again.

We’ve organized into a community-based action group led by gender diverse Ohioans. We are creating safer, healthier communities by improving the accessibility of healthcare for transgender people by: providing peer-to-peer education, training members of the healthcare field, advocating for legal equality, and providing transportation to transgender individuals in need. We came up with these goals by reviewing the LGBT community needs assessments found at https://www.lgbtqohio.org

Goals

Education, transportation Access, legal/political advocacy

Our Call To You

Are you 18+, gender diverse (meaning not cisgender) and want to join in? Contact: TRANSlateHealth.Ohio@protonmail.com

Things you could do:

Lead the legal/political committee
Complete any actions allies can (see examples list below)
Generate new ideas for projects
Contribute articles and art to our Zine
More!

Are you an ally and want to help? Contact: TRANSlateHealth.Ohio@gmail.com

We really appreciate your help and dedication to our work! This group is led by and for transgender people. Allies will not be in leadership. Allies can help complete our action steps!