Empowering Transgender Services

Empowering Transgender Services is a Virginia-based nonprofit and community health services organization focused on transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming people in the Hampton Roads region. The organization provides sexual health services including HIV testing, PrEP navigation, and hormone therapy support, alongside broader wraparound services such as housing assistance, peer support, vocational education, and career readiness. It also operates through ETSI Health Clinic, which is listed as an active health service clinic/center in Hampton, Virginia. Rather than developing therapeutics, ETSI delivers direct community-based healthcare access, prevention, navigation, and social support for underserved LGBTQ+ populations. Its work is funded in part by grants and support from organizations such as Gilead Sciences, ViiV Healthcare, Sentara Healthcare, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Third Wave Fund, and Borealis Philanthropy.