Thank you to everyone that attended GenderSpectrUM 2013 at the University of Montana on November 22nd.?Providing progressive perspectives on the systems of gender, GenderSpectrUM focuses on education and activism around gender diversity.

Traditionally, November 20th is the annual transgender day of recognition. GenderSpectrum brings life to a day that generally focuses on death, and raises awareness of progressive trans* movement while recognizing those whose lives were cut far too short.

The Gender Expansion Project, in collaboration with the University of Montana Lambda Alliance, hosted the event on November 22nd at the University of Montana.

Join us for a panel discussion on breaking the binaries of traditional perceptions of gender, creating an environment of acceptance and understanding, and building healthy and vibrant communities for individuals of gender diversity.

GenderSpectrUM is free to the public.

If you are interested in being involved in the planning of GenderSpectrUM 2014, please contact us at info@

The Gender Expansion Project now provides free anonymous rapid HIV testing in Missoula, MT. You can drop in, know your status in 20 minutes, get any resources you may be looking for and get free condoms and lube if you need them.

Book your appointment today and get a chance to win great prizes. Monthly drawings!

Thanks to Gay Men’s Task Force for partnering with us to provide this important service to individuals of gender diversity across Missoula. We offer late night testing, so book your appointment TODAY!

Book your appointment online at genderexpansionproject.org/gyt-booking or by stopping in at 127 N. Higgins Ave, Suite 203.

oin our team. Become an important part of the trans* movement across the rural northwest. We are currently looking for dedicated volunteers to help with the creation of GEP satellites in Eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana.

Are you interested in becoming involved in trans* advocacy, work that improves access to trans* inclusive healthcare and work that creates inclusive environments across the rural northwest for everyone of EVERY gender? Get involved today.?

As an interdisciplinary and professionally focused anization, the Gender Expansion Project has made the commitment to work to further the understanding, care, treatment and acceptance of transgender, transsexual, intersex and gender diverse individuals. With an emphasis on the health and well being of these individuals, the Gender Expansion Project continues to work to further the understanding and treatment of gender identity disorders and related gender variant health concerns by professionals in medicine, psychology, law, social work, psychotherapy, family studies, sociology, anthropology, sexology, speech and voice therapy, among other related fields

The Gender Expansion Project Trans* Health Conference is a conference comprised of professionals, community anizers and trans*, intersex, gender diverse and allied individual, gathered together to engage in discussion and education surrounding the trans*, intersex and gender diverse community, and move forward in a progressive moment toward trans* equality and understanding.

Our core planning committee is comprised of dedicated volunteers from a variety of professional fields, who have come together to create a true change for the better lives of those of trans*, intersex and gender diverse identity.

MontanaTDOR was founded in 2008 by Kyndra Nevin in Belgrade, Montana. The anization was started to help fund Billings?Transgender Day of Remembrance

In less than a year, the anization went from funding?events?with a minimal turnout of less than thirty people to sponsoring two of the?largest Transgender Day of Recognition events in Montana history at the time, providing?transgender resources?and referrals throughout the State of?Montana and beyond, running the Montana Gender Alliance, and working with professionals to provide better care for trans?identified individuals.

The anization was built for the transgender community by the transgender community, and was here for the transgender community,?both for sponsoring events like Transgender Day of Recognition, as well as fighting for equal rights of the entire LGBTQQI community within.

Since the formation of MontanaTDOR, it became clear that the anization, at its roots, was limited by its name and by its primary focus around the annual Day of?Recognition.

In the fall of 2012, a group of anizers gathered with MontanaTDOR community anizers and developed a vision for a progressive anization that met the current needs being met by MontanaTDOR, as well as expanding its outreach, and overall purpose, into an anization that?would work to further the understanding and treatment of gender identity disorders and related gender variant health concerns by professionals in medicine, psychology, law, social work, psychotherapy, family studies, sociology, anthropology, sexology, speech and voice therapy, among other related fields, and so, only days later, the Gender Expansion Project was born.

We, as an anization, envision the future of the project bringing together diverse professionals dedicated to developing best practices and supportive policies and programs throughout Montana which promote health, research, education, respect, dignity and equality for transgender, transsexual, intersex and gender diverse people of Montana and beyond.

As an interdisciplinary and professionally focused anization, the Gender Expansion Project will work to further the understanding, care, treatment and acceptance of transgender, transsexual, intersex and gender diverse individuals. With an emphasis on the health and well being of these individuals, the Gender Expansion Project will work to further the understanding and treatment of gender identity disorders and related gender variant health concerns by professionals in medicine, psychology, law, social work, psychotherapy, family studies, sociology, anthropology, sexology, speech and voice therapy, among other related fields

The Gender Expansion Project will provide opportunities for professionals from various sub-specialties to communicate with one another in the context of the needs of those of gender diversity in the areas of medicine, psychology, law, social work, psychotherapy, family studies, sociology, anthropology, sexology, speech and voice therapy, and other professional care focuses, as well as providing opportunities for community professionals, including corporate staff, human resource professionals, community anizers and anization administration to further their education of the issues surrounding those of transgender, transsexual, intersex and gender diverse identities, including access to basic needs, access to public assistance, access to equal employment and equality both at a public and private policy level.