I live n portland, but if anyone knws of any support groups or even just other transguys n my area. It'd be alot easier knowing I'm not alone here. Online friends r great but I wanna meet some real people for a support group.


Add me on fb. Search Todd Landon.

I do believe there is a Trans man group at the Q center.  Reid would know for sure.  And maybe Myles will pop in and direct you, I think I has been in a group here.

BTW, I am over in Fairview (Troutdale Area).   

it sucks because all of the support groups i've found so far meet on days that i have to work. i have fridays and saturdays off but they meet on thurs and sun.

Hi from Maddie. Sadly, I don't know of any local groups for transmen on Friday and Saturday.

For anyone else interested, Portland's Q Center (4115 N Mississippi Ave in North Portland) had the following groups recently:

SOFFA is the first Sunday in December at 4-6pm (newcomers 3.45) and it's for significant others of people who have transitioned or are transitioning. I attend this and would be happy to provide more info.

The MtF support group seems to be every Friday night at 7pm.

TranzGuyz seems to be one Sunday a month, 6-8pm. "The group has been meeting monthly since November 2006, and has been growing over the years. An average meeting size might be 15-25 people."

There are also meetings called Trans-Fem* ("Trans-Fem* is a social-support group for transwomen, intersex, genderqueer & questioning people who were assigned male at birth. We meet for fun, discussion & support around what it means to be on the trans-feminine spectrum. There are no requirements for transition status or presentation to attend this group.") and Gender Queery ("This is a discussion group for trans, genderqueer, folks outside-the-gender-binary, and allies. Meetings have great discussions on an ever-changing topic followed by informal social time and always take place on the 1st Monday of the month."). See their web site for more. BUT - nothing for guys specifically that I could see on Friday or Saturday. 

Wishing you many good adventures on your quest. / Maddie

I go to the Tranzguys group, and I've heard of Coqsure but I don't know anything about them. Keep an eye on all the fine print listings in the back of Just Out. Sometimes interesting groups and gatherings turn up there. Obviously the Q Center website, too.

Feel free to PM me. I live close to downtown, and I'm more active in parenting stuff than trans stuff, but I've been dorking out with political stuff and support groups here for awhile now. There are lots of trans folk in Portland.

Lol I just noticed how old this thread is. Still.

Madwoman how long have you been going to the SOFFA group? Can you tell me what the turnout is normally like? I have a friend who has expressed interest in attending.

Hey Todd, I live in Vancouver.  I tried to find you on facebook, but I couldn't.  There are too many Todd Landon's.  Do you have a link?
I'm also in the same boat as you, I've been trying to find support groups that work with my schedule.  I just can't do anything late in the evening because I take the bus and my bus doesn't run very late.

I did go to the tranzguys group for the first time yesterday.  and Felix, I think I saw you there, lol.
But I don't know if I can go again because of how late it is.


Just throwing out an idea here,
I wonder if we could sort of have our own support group (or get-together) for us here on Susan's.  So that way we could still meet other trans people, but we could make the meeting time fit with all of our schedules.

Oh my gosh yay. I think I know which one you were. Lol there's not a ton of guys named Felix, you should have said hi. 

I used to live in PDX. SMYRC is a good group, as I've heard from a lot of resources, but I was 15/16 when I lived there and too shy. i went once and it looked alright. They only allow a certain age group though, I think the max. age is 25. But you'd have to check. You might be able to meet some people at the Outside Inn, they host events and meetings for all kinds of things, and homeless/poor trans folks go there. I got a bag of free needles there before, very nice people. I might have some other resources tucked away in my brain, if they resurface I'll come back here.

SMYRC and Outside In are both targeted toward young people but both can make exceptions. They are both really good organizations with really good people on staff. Outside In's trans program is overburdened right now, though.

Hey Felix,

Thank you for writing and glad to meet you. First of all, the next SOFFA at the Q center is tomorrow, Dec 4th, orientation for newcomers at 3.45. (I'm the orient-er actually. We decided it would make the meetings more productive if we went over the ground rules with new people before the discussion begins.) Then they start with a round of introductions at 4pm. Totally confidential.

Now for the amusing part: there has only been ONE SOFFA meeting so far. (They have been asking for expressions of interest for a year and finally the day came.) There were nine attendees at the first one and it's a very friendly space - we all introduced ourselves with our preferred pronouns and yeah. Some of the organizers can't make this next one but we have two strong facilitators for it and the facilitation will rotate. I think there is a huge need for this type of space (people were saying, "can't we meet more often than once a MONTH?!!") and I expect it to grow.

Please tell your friend xie/they is/are very welcome. Or tell xer/them to get [pronoun] ass over here. Whatever works. And if tomorrow is too soon (busy day!) I'll share the new dates when I know them. I think the Jan date has to move off the first Sunday due to a Q Center conflict.

Eventually if it gets too big it might split up, BUT I think the people at different stages can learn a lot from each other. Sooo tricky: people who transition have different stages, and their partners have stages too. Not saying they're AS painful or difficult but in order to be good partners we have to deal with our own stuff in a responsible manner (OR ELSE IT WILL GET IN THE WAY - emphasis mine) and this group can support that.

oxoxox from the long-winded

Maddie

Hey, I love old threads. I live for old threads.

JohnAlex wrote,

Just throwing out an idea here,
I wonder if we could sort of have our own support group (or get-together) for us here on Susan's.  So that way we could still meet other trans people, but we could make the meeting time fit with all of our schedules.

This is a great idea! Maybe start a new thread with exactly this in the title? (Maybe you already have and I just haven't seen it.) And then everyone on the thread could at least agree to a weekend meetup.

I'm with you on the frustrations of the "last bus/train" problem. / oxox Maddie (rides TriMet #20)

Quote from: madwoman_in_the_attic on December 03, 2011, 11:08:10 AM
JohnAlex wrote,

Just throwing out an idea here,
I wonder if we could sort of have our own support group (or get-together) for us here on Susan's.  So that way we could still meet other trans people, but we could make the meeting time fit with all of our schedules.

This is a great idea! Maybe start a new thread with exactly this in the title? (Maybe you already have and I just haven't seen it.) And then everyone on the thread could at least agree to a weekend meetup.

I'm with you on the frustrations of the "last bus/train" problem. / oxox Maddie (rides TriMet #20)

This is a good idea, I'm going to do that.  Maybe I should also PM the people in this thread to ask them.

I'm on hiatus from being a responsible person (outside of parenting duties), so thank you in advance JohnAlex for making that thread. Portland is Elysian Fields for a lot of transpeople, and I'm willing to bet there are more people from here than say so on this site. I'd love for any of us to get together.

I can't host at my house (I live in like, a closet with a bunk bed and a kitchen), but I'm willing to facilitate any potential gatherings when I have the time. I have a weekend or two a month to myself, and I can usually make time on weekdays during school hours. Any locals with questions feel free to PM me.

I guess anything I say re this is going to need to become copypasta for the other thread. Eh.