The Gender Identity Center Of Colorado Reviews

The GIC is the only place that I can go and feel completely safe as a transgender person. They help the transgender community by providing resources, education, and counseling. They network with other businesses and non-profit groups to provide contacts and resources for surgeries, hormones, name changes, and help provide clothing for those transitioning. They run support groups almost every day and are there should anyone in the community need them. This is the only organization that has a majority of it's board members who are transgender themselves.

This organization has closed. People seeking assistance with gender identity and transitioning can go to Transgender Center for the Rockies.

We are community partners and strive to further the many conversations about gender, gender identity, expression, sexuality and so much more. With the GIC, we've been able to assist and reach out to more of our Transgender Servicemembers.

What they do is highly needed and everything there is 100% volunteer based. People work and volunteer here with the best interest as possible. The demand from the community is higher than what they can serve, so I encourage you all to help establish solutions and recommendations instead of being mean about their ability to deliver. This is hard work that they do.

Additionally, they moved to a larger space to provide MORE opportunities for outreach and care and shows how much this program is growing.

Not everyone here is CIS and neither are they Transgender so please be kind to EVERYONE in the community as we are all in this together and we can't afford to fight amongst ourselves.

Was doing fine until my clinician quit in November and never been assigned a new clinician. All attempts to contact some one just get the promise to "get back to me" and never have any clals returned. This just proves there is no help at all out there and do not waste your money in their intake fees. They will just blow you off too.

This place is a GREAT RESOURCE for those who are not sure of their gender identity.

There's a wait list. My issue is time sensitive. They didn't tell me there was a several week wait list until I called back a week later to check on the progress of my application after I paid the intake fee.

I was able to find help and services that have been very beneficial. I highly recommend GIC.

This place is terrible. First it's mostly cis-run from counselors, to phone staff, to admin. This means discussions of trans oppression are taken as personal insult to the listener. This has devastating effect on the Community as I've observed it, as an activist, and partner to a nonbinary transperson.

Nonbinary identity is not respected here. I have heard this from community at more than one level. People get laughed at and called names, simply for asking for the respect of who they are. Get told their needs can't be meet simply because they've asked for timely call-back. Simply because they've asked common trans needs to be met under uncommon circumstances. When Center members get responses they don't expect they got defensive, they shift back unto the oppressed and hurting folks they've taken responsibility to help. They boot folks with a simple "we can't meet your needs.

At least one member touched a person inappropriately. Additionally, even the accessible bathroom was set up poorly and unusable. And a person seeking help was shamed for needing to reschedule for disability related illness.

More than one nonbinary person has told me this place was hostile, shaming and ineffective toward them.

Been coming for 3 years. Absolutely love all of the services

BAD FILING/RECORD KEEPING

The volunteers here were all friendly to me while I attended the necessary therapy for my surgery letter with them. However, I needed to obtain a copy of my records with them for insurance and medical reasons afterwards. At first they refused to be given to me because the rights to those files were under the previous director's name. Then instead of bridging that conversation with the former director for me, I was left to make an attempt to contact her myself. I found a number online through extensive research. Her response was to insist the GIC was incorrect in their claim . So I called the GIC back and pressed further. They changed their story; the files were misplaced, lost or missing entirely.

Unfortunately, this is just one story of misfortune amongst others that lead this clinic to close for good.

I understand that the Transgender Center of the Rockies has a much better filing and record keeping system in place, however.

We came in and did our intake. Now they refused to even talk to us. My wife is having issues with the way I identify. But since its her that has the issues they refuse to speak to us. Cause apparently I am the one that should have the issues. Or since we are not ready for me to transition they wont get money from the doctors whom pay their salaries. Whatever the case. Do not go to this place. Its CIS ran and the few that are there, have a very specific ways of thinking what is transgender and whats not. This place is a virus on society.

Hate to have to write this bad review for a place that's suppose to be helping the LGBTQ+ community. I came to the center to obtain a referral letter to a doctor to start testosterone and to go to therapy regularly. My initial intake was amazing. After that I was assigned a therapist named Tyler Woody. Not only was scheduling hard but when I finally obtained a session I showed up after the one way 30 minute drive to be told that Tyler was sick that day and he forgot to tell me. After that I requested to be assigned a different therapist...this week was over a month ago. I haven't heard back. Needless to say that this center does not have the community in mind. Not only has this put off my transition but also has neglected my need for mental health. do not donate to this place and do not go here for support. I suggest going to Imagine Center or CU campus has some programs that are way better than this place.