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News |
7-4-09 - So Long, And Thanks...With great regret, but also gratitude, we
announce that Pacific Gender Support will cease its regular schedule of
support meetings and social events. PGS will no
longer hold meetings in our 1812 East Madison office after June. For
some
time, attendance at our regular support group
meetings has been too small to justify money spent on rent that could
be better spent helping in other ways. We'll still keep our phone line and web site.
We may host occasional events when an opportunity arises, and we
welcome constructive thoughts and advice. PGS was founded in a tumultuous
era, one when it seemed peer support meetings were needed but
unavailable. Venerable groups were struggling to redefine themselves,
their survival and shape in question. Those of us with the resources
and skills to keep the torch lit decided to fill that continuing
need on our own. We kept our ambitions simple: A door, open, and
friendly faces and help inside. Our mission was to ensure that no
one
have to suffer through the often lonely, difficult and frightening
journeys of life outside society's gender norms alone. Plenty of people have told me
we fulfilled that essential mission. Ingersoll, our city's long-running
gender-variant support organization, has since weathered its storms
with great resilience, and its meetings and events are
well-attended today, back in its ancestral home at Seattle Counseling
Service. I wish we could have done more. Seattle has a
fantastic transgender community, and it deserves its organizations held
to high standards. PGS' parent organization, the Pacific Gender
Institute, will continue to operate, supporting other gender-related
programs. But for now, this is goodbye. Keep an
eye on our web site, stay in touch, and be proud of yourselves. Many thanks for all your support. |