Programs
Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy
Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy and Spectrum: The Other Clinic
The transgender community has a difficult time accessing quality healthcare for basic treatment. One of the most problematic specialities is gender affirming hormone replacement therapy or HRT. Hormone therapy should be easily accessible as a basic primary care need. Unfortunately, HRT is out of reach for many in the transgender community. The goal of Spectrum is to provide affordable and easy access to HRT. This is done by keeping overhead to a barebones minimum. Spectrum does not have a support staff. The owners clean the restrooms and sweep the floors. Even still, whether due to homelessness, disability or just Mississippians living below the poverty line, many can not afford HRT. These are the people you are helping with your donations. Read below for options to help.
Fund a Friend in Need
When you donate using PayPal, Add the name of the person in the comment section or just type "Fund a friend" or "Fund a person in need." For those in need, priority will be given to transgender women of color. You can have a friend schedule an appointment with Spectrum and discuss funding a friend.
Marsha’s Tea Room is an initiative that was first dreamed and created by the founders of Spectrum: The Other Clinic, the first and only transgender medicine specialty clinic in the state of Mississippi. The two founders of the clinic initially created Marsha’s as a way to seek funding to help support those less fortunate patients in affording their hormone therapy services. However, it didn’t take long before the pair realized that the needs of this community were so much bigger than just access to gender affirming healthcare services, and so they have branched out since then into the realms of education, advocacy, mental healthcare, and more. Any need they see that Marsha’s can handle will be tackled however it may be possible. They love this community and want everyone to be able to live their best lives no matter where they are in life and how they identify. Please help them help others to live their truth.
Safe Spaces
In Person and Online Safe Spaces
We work to hold small gatherings both in person and online.
There are educational materials here on our website and in our library.
In Facebook, you can search and request membership in Marsha's Support Group. We have updates on activities, meet in support groups and share information.
Go to our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/TGNCrights
Request to join our Facebook group:
Marsha's Tea Room Support Group
Advocacy for TGNC Rights
Marsha's Role as an Advocate
As healthcare providers, we have a unique ability to assist the TGNC community. Spectrum: The Other Clinic serves the TGNC community and has the necessary resources to know what is needed and how to reach the community.
Both Marsha's and Spectrum: The Other Clinic has been contacted by others who wish to help the community. We will cooperate with all well-intentioned groups to support what the public needs.
Mental Health Care
The owners of Spectrum: The Other Clinic have been working on updating a list of therapists for our patients. Marsha's would like to offer mental health services to the Mississippi TGNC community. Of course, we will verify the therapists before we will recommend anyone.
It is so difficult to find a gender-affirming therapist. And even more difficult to afford healthcare. We have met a number of good people doing their best to provide quality and affordable therapy to the TCNC community. Let us help you connect with them.