GENDER AFFIRMING
PROGRAMMING
DISCLAIMER: Our facilitators are not licensed therapists and these are not group therapy groups. If you are looking for professional therapy, SAGA has partnered with BetterHelp to distribute free therapy vouchers for 3 months. If you would like to extend your therapy past 3 months, please notify us at your 2.5 month mark and we may be able to extend it.
Here is the BetterHelp free therapy flier in English (link to “view only” pdf in google drive)
Aquí está el volante de BetterHelp para terapia gratuita en Español (link to “view only” pdf in google drive)
Before you attend our support groups, please read our Community Agreements:
SUPPORT
GROUPS
SAGA offers support, social, and discussion groups for various trans and gender expansive (TGE) folks and their loved ones. Be yourself and dress however you like — there’s no pressure. You don’t need to be TGE-identified, or have your gender "figured out" to attend. You are also welcome to bring a cis gender loved one for support. You are also welcome to bring a cis gender loved one for support.
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Our monthly Support Groups meet in person at the Splinter Collective courtyard (901 N 13th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705) and via Zoom. Please reach out to ajt.saga@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
Splinter Collective Courtyard Accessibility Information: The courtyard at Splinter is packed gravel and mostly flat with exception to the entryway which is a slight incline. The bathrooms are gender inclusive and have stalls with handrails. There is lighting however visibility can be low after dark. Splinter Collective is extremely close to the train track and sometimes loud trains go by.
What to bring:
Full water bottle
Snacks
A way to take notes for when you learn something cool!
Feel good items like plushies or fidgets
OUR SUPPORT GROUPS
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General Meetings
General Meeting is a peer-led support and social group for those who identify along the trans and gender expansive (TGE) spectrum! You are also welcome to bring a cis gender loved one for support. This is a great starting place for first-timers and visitors. Facilitator: Kendall Boger (they/he/she)
When:
In-Person: 1st Mondays of each month at 7 - 9 pm
Zoom: 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7 - 9 pm
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Desert Sisters
Desert Sisters is a peer-led support and social group for those who identify along the trans feminine spectrum! You are also welcome to bring a cis gender loved one for support. Facilitator: Grayce Lowe (she/they)
When:
In-Person: 2nd Mondays of each month at 7 - 9 pm
Zoom: 2nd Thursdays of each month at 7 - 9 pm
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Gender Outlawz
Gender Outlawz is a peer-led support and social group for those who identify along the nonbinary, genderqueer, gender fluid, agender spectrum! You are also welcome to bring a cis gender loved one for support. Facilitator: Grayce Lowe (she/they)
When:
In-Person: 3rd Mondays of each month at 7 - 9 pm
Zoom: 3rd Thursdays of each month at 7 - 9 pm
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Desert Brothers
Desert Boyz is a peer-led support and social group for those who identify along the trans masculine spectrum! You are also welcome to bring a cis gender loved one for support. Facilitator:
When:
Zoom: 3rd Wednesdays of each month at 7 - 9 pm
In-Person: 4th Tuesdays of each month at 7 - 9 pm
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Families Transformed
Families Transformed offers a monthly support group for parents/care-takers of trans and gender expansive (TGE) youth; education to help the broader community better understand the unique experiences of their TGE youth and families: and opportunities for their TGE youth to build community with one another. Facilitator: Lizette Trujillo (she/ella)
The monthly Families Transformed support group meets every 2nd Saturday at 10 am - 12 pm (in-person and via Zoom).
Please note that this group meets at a different location and uses a different Zoom link. Please contact Lizette at LTrujillo@sagatucson.org for more information.
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Dezert Counselorz
Dezert Counselorz is a consultation group for therapists who work with trans and gender expansive clients.
Dezert Counselorz meets every 3rd Saturday of each month at 10 am - 12 pm in-person. Please note that this group meets at a different location. Please contact Martie at desertcounselorz@sagatucson.org for more information.
Sliding Scale: $20-50
TrOutings
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TrOutings ☀︎
SAGA’s TrOutings (Trans-Outings) are community building events that grow trans and gender expansive (TGE) folks’ connection to nature, each other, and the organizing work in our local area and beyond. TrOutings can range from BIPOC Yoga with Jijivisha Holistic (Meela Hill), to TGE youth splash pad and picnics, to Trans Closet Workshops with What Sam Made (Sam Bloom), to protesting in the streets with Familia TQLM, Mariposas Sin Fronteras, St. Mark’s, and Food Not Bombs Tucson.
SAGA’s TrOutings also include our major events, such as our Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) Festival and Trans Day of Remembrance/Rest/Resilience (TDOR) Festival.
Trans Care Packages
SAGA’s Trans Care Package (TCP) programming started in May 2020, in which we mailed physical TCPs to our trans and gender expansive (TGE) community. The contents provided center majority TGE BIPOC voices through art, readings, medicine, and Trans Hero Coloring Pages. We understand the TGE experience as an art form: a cultivation of oneself and developing a system of care. Therefore, SAGA empowers TGE folks through art as healing justice and systems change work. With resources and care, we can look to TGE BIPOC artists as visionaries of a future that holds us all of us.
We also extended our TCP programming by launching our first TCP Publication November, 2022.
We are continuing to expand our TCP programming through:
TCP podcast that archives TGE BIPOC elders’ stories
TCP Spa Day Focus Groups to support communal healing, deeper relationship building and understanding community needs
Stay tuned for more information via our website, Instagram or Facebook
