11-11-11-Throughout the year, at events that are community based, TranZwear has and will continue to donate both financially and with gift certificates to these events.
Most recently:

SF LGBTQ Center Fundraising Pride Auction: 2: $50 gift certificates,

BrownBoi Film and Auction Night: 2: $50 gift certificates and 200 "goodie bags"

SF Transgender Film Festival 2: $50 Gift Certificates

TranZwear is currently donating to groups that help guys with their post top surgery medical supply needs. We are buying medical supplies and sending them to the groups that are assembling the aftercare packages then delivering them directly to the guys where they are recovering. If you know of anyone who might need this type of assistance, please let us know via email and we will see if we can help them with this donation. 7/11

The founder of TranZwear^® has consistently shown his commitment and support to the LGB/Trans community.  We recently learned that:

"the proceeds from the sale of TranZear was donated to several GLBT programs in support of gender identity programs, support groups,  and the fight against HIV/Aids. The donations were made Nov 2010 By TSW Enterprises." 

As the new owners of TranZwear^®, we are inspired by our founder's spirit of generosity.  We are committed to offering support to the community through donations to programs that protect, represent, serve, and care for LGBT, gender queer, and trans-people.

Thank you, TranZwear^® customers, for making this possible. Thru your orders, we can help build and support our communities.

Since 1979, Lyon-Martin Womens' Clinic has provided services to some of the most marginalized women in San Francisco.  Like many of the Bay Area’s community clinics, Lyon-Martin has been struggling with the effects of the recession: more patients, less money from donors, less money from patients and this summer’s devastating freeze on MediCal payments.   As of today, the Clinic is in danger of permanent closure.  Immediate donations are needed to pay for expenses.

TranZwear^® has already made a cash donation to Lyon-Martin.   In addition, during the month of February, we will donate $5 from each order received.

Lyon-Martin began as a research project by a UCSF student who noticed that lesbians were coming into the emergency room with dire health problems that were clearly caused by lack of access to primary care. She realized that many were avoiding doctors entirely.

The project became a way of figuring out what lesbians’ health issues actually were — what were their STD risks? What were their odds of having an abnormal pap smear? The medical files were kept in the basement of the student's apartment. The phone was in her living room. Office hours were held in the homes of volunteers.

In 1979, the project became a clinic and was named after the lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin.  After that, it expanded services to "one marginalized population after another."  This included efforts to integrate mental and physical care — a psychiatrist, two social workers and two assistants were hired to help with situations where patients confessed to being beaten by their partner, or who couldn’t manage to stay on a diet that would keep their diabetes under control. The program has been a success in every way except financially.  Today the clinic’s patients are about 50 percent queer and transgendered people, and 50 percent low-income women. Some 17 percent are homeless.

• More than 400 transgender patients would have had to buy black market hormones.
• Over 2500 underserved patients would have to seek low cost medical care elsewhere, meaning they most likely wouldn’t seek care
• 7 women would have had their breast cancer advance undiagnosed, this year alone.
• 20 patients would have had their HIV viral load increase, risking advancement to AIDS and spread of HIV to others.
• Nearly 100 patients would have had their diabetes go out of control, risking blindness, limb loss and kidney failure.
• 150 people would have had their abnormal pap smears progress to cervical cancer.

Donate online at www.lyon-martin.org