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Diversity Alliance of Puget Sound

Diversity Alliance of the Puget Sound (DAPS) serves the trans and gender diverse community of Washington State through direct service and financial and material assistance programs.

DAPS embodies and celebrates the wide diversity within the gender spectrum, believes that this variation is part of the human family’s common, normal and natural predisposition, and supports the establishment of social and legal rights for all individuals who desire to temporarily or permanently present and live their lives in a manner different from the gender roles mandated by traditional culture. DAPS rejects the notion of a gender polarity or duality in which there are only two accepted modes of gender expression, and disputes that one must remain fixed in the gender role assigned at birth or in accord with anatomical manifestations. Additionally, DAPS fully supports the right to privacy, and encourages its membership to consistently maintain awareness of and respect for the confidentiality that non-conformist gender expression often requires.