Finding a provider who understands Two Spirit or LGBTQ experiences can be tough. These resources can help.

• World Professional Association of Transgender Health: Provider Search
  • Providers must agree to uphold standards of care laid out by WPATH for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals
• Gay and Lesbian Medical Association: Provider Search
  • LGBTQ-friendly providers create free listings
• GLBT Near Me
  • Find providers, hairstylists, hotels, and hotlines.

Note: The providers listed are self-identified and not always verified. These organizations cannot guarantee a good experience.

For Two-spirit People:

• Bay Area Two Spirit Society:
  • Organization to restore and recover the role of Two- Spirit people

• Montana Two Spirit Society:
  • Organization advocating and educating the Montana LGBTI community and general community about Two Spirit issues, histories and traditions.

• Northeast Two Spirit Society:
  • Regularly updated blog, reporting on news, culture, and daily life of Two Spirit people in northeastern states.

For Native Two Spirit and LGBTQ Youth:

• Indigenizing Love Toolkit:
  • Two Spirit leadership profiles and activities to help create communities of young Native Two Spirit and LGBTQ people and their allies.

Health Resources

• Center for Excellence for Transgender Health:
  • Resources regarding HIV prevention, cultural competency, mental health, and policy pertaining to transgender health
• SAMHSA Two Spirit Webinars: 
  • Webinars from SAMHSA’s Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center, addressing Two Spirit and transgender identities in Native American/Alaska Native communities.
• National Alliance on Mental Illness: LGBTQ
  • Addresses mental health disparities and finding a mental health provider as an LGBTQ person.

You are protected from harassment and discrimination by tribal, state, and federal laws. These resources can help you learn more.

• ID Documents Center:
  • Information to help you change gender on legal documents
• Legal and identity documents:
  • Information about changing gender on legal identity documents
• When Healthcare Isn’t Caring
  • Summary report on healthcare access and discrimination from Lambda Legal
• Transgender Law Center: 
  • Health and legal resources for transgender people and allies
• Tribal Equity Toolkit 3.0: 
  • A toolkit with sample tribal resolutions and codes for LGBTQ equality

Art:

• Prepahhontoz:
  • An art and music campaign to increase awareness of PrEP and prevent HIV/AIDS in Native American/Alaska Native communities.
• Two Spirit Documentary:
  • Documentary explores the spiritual nature of gender and real-world examples.

Literature:

• Not vanishing. Press Gang Pub, 1988.
  • Collection of poetry written about two-spirit, lesbian, and Native themes.

• Driskill, Qwo-Li, Daniel H. Justice, Deborah A. Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti. Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature. , 2011. Print.
  • A collection of works written by Indigenous Two-spirit and queer people.

• Driskill, Qwo-Li. Asegi stories: Cherokee queer and two-spirit memory. University of Arizona Press, 2016.
  • Novel about Cherokee history written from a post-colonial lens.

• Rifkin, Mark. 2012. The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • A novel about how the policy of self-determination innacted in 1970 has impacted contemporary queer Native writers.

• Roscoe, Will. 1988. Living in the Spirit: A gay American Indian anthology. New York: St Martin’s Press.
  • A book combining personal accounts, stories, and poetry regarding the complexity of queer Native history.

• Webber, Storme. Blues Divine. RiverShe Collective Arts, 2015.
  • A collection of poetry derivative of music and spoken tradition. Contains Native and queer themes.

The Board is staffed with approximately 45 individuals, the majority of whom have BA/BS or advanced degrees and training to meet the needs of diverse activities provided to the tribal health programs of the 43 NPAIHB member tribes. The EpiCenter has four core purposes: Administrative, Data Management/Analysis, Training, and Research. The NPAIHB organizational chart outlines the managerial structure.
From early in the history of the NPAIHB, the Northwest Tribes recognized that data, surveillance, and research were central to building awareness about health disparities afflicting American Indians and Alaska Natives. The Northwest Tribal EpiCenter has successfully engaged Northwest tribes in collaborative research and surveillance activities and, as a result, serves as an essential resource for these tribes for tribal health data and health information services support, including capacity building. All data from such activities belong to the tribes involved in the research. In addition, the NPAIHB hosts the Portland Area IHS Institutional Review Board (IRB), which oversees protection of human subjects in research occurring in Northwest Indian communities.
Over 190,000 American Indians/Alaska Natives reside in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, representing 6.3 percent of the United State

Approach to Care:

• IHS LGBT Resources for Providers
  • Resources for care of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients

• Guidelines for care for LGTBQ people: 
  • Care guidelines for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients

• Guidelines for primary and gender-affirming care for transgender and gender non-confirming patients: 
  • Clinical guides for primary care

• HIV Care and Sexual Health Assessment
  • E-learning course focused on providing culturally attuned sexual health care to 2SLGBTQ Native Americans

Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Information:

• Do Ask Do Tell: 
  • A toolkit for collecting data on sexual orientation and gender identity in clinical settings.
• Beyond Men, Women, or Both
  • A Comprehensive, LGBTQ-Inclusive, Implicit-Bias-Aware, Standardized-Patient-Based Sexual History Taking Curriculum

Gender-Affirming Treatment Options:

• Gender Affirming Endocrine Treatment Clinical Practice Guideline Summary: 
  • Evidence-based guideline for endocrine based therapies

• Healthy People 2030: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender: 
  • Overview of related health topics and goals for the federal government until 2030.

• United States Transgender Survey 2015 for Alaska Native and American Indians:
  • Comprehensive survey and analysis pertaining to all areas of life that impact the well-being of Native transgender people 
• Assessing Health Provider Perspectives Regarding Barriers American Indian/Alaska Native Transgender and Two-Spirit Youth Face Accessing Healthcare

• PFLAG: 
  • Community and advocacy organization for LGBTQ families, friends, and allies.
• Stand With Trans: 
  • Online platform for parents of trans youth to communicate with other parents as well as advocate for and support trans youth
• Indigenizing Love Toolkit:
  • Activities and information to help you support Two Spirit and LGBTQ youth.

• ID Documents Center:
  • Information to help you change gender on legal documents

• Legal and identity documents:
  • Information about changing gender on legal identity documents

• When Healthcare Isn’t Caring
  • Summary report on healthcare access and discrimination from Lambda Legal

• Transgender Law Center: 
  • Health and legal resources for transgender people and allies

• Tribal Equity Toolkit 3.0: 
  • A toolkit with sample tribal resolutions and codes for LGBTQ equality