Our Mission:
The South Sound Gender Variant Healthcare Project
(GVHP) is dedicated to improving the healthcare of all
gender variant people living in our community. GVHP
raises awareness and increases public support for
gender variant people both within the medical field
and in the general population.

We are a diverse group of individuals who seek to
provide education, support, advocacy, and resources to
the public, to clinics and providers, and to the
gender variant people who live in Lewis, Mason,
Thurston and other surrounding counties in
Washington’s South Puget Sound region.

The term “gender variant” is being used as an umbrella
term to include anyone whose gender identity or
expression does not fit within their assigned gender.
Identities include but are not limited to:
Transgender, MtF, Intersex, Genda Queer, GenderQueer,
Transsexual, FtM, Native American Two-Spirit and
Nedlech.