Apps for the Trans Community

When Katherine anthony was gender transitioning, she found herself wishing there was an app that could help. “There wasn’t anything at the time that helped synthesize all the information regarding transition, life in the U.S. as a trans person, or even just keeping track of all of my goals,” she says. So she set about building it herself with help from her co-founder and friend Patrick Mchugh.

Their company, Euphoria, now runs a suite of five free apps used by an estimated 80,000 transgender people in the U.S., or about one in every 25. The flagship app, Solace, aims to be a compendium for gender transition, offering such useful information as how to find health insurance coverage and get legal assistance to change a name. Bliss, a new app that launched November 15, is a tool for putting money aside for future goals, such as hormone therapy or gender confirmation surgery. Also in the works: a platform focused on mental health. Overall, Anthony says, the response has been positive, with user polling showing that the apps have helped reduce stress and other negative emotions and “helped a lot of people become who they are.” —K.r.