Dr. Gina Senarighi has been a practicing mental health therapist for over 20 years specializing in working with transgender and queer populations. She has also been an unwavering advocate for transgender equity and was recognized as the State Advocate of the Year by the Wisconsin LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce in 2024.

Her direct work with trans youth began in 2007, when she became the first full-time Camp Director at Camp Ten Trees (CTT), a summer camp based in Seattle for LGBTQ+ youth. CTT was one of the very first summer camps that allowed youth to self-select their gendered cabin groups and included a cabin area called “Genderlandia: Where gender roams free” designed for transgender, nonbinary and gender fluid/queer/and questioning youth.

As a community educator, college professor, and therapist she developed multiple workshops and guidebooks to help new allies of the transgender community gain accurate information and tools to support their gender diverse friends and family.

Since then she has been a fierce advocate for transgender youth in schools in Oregon, and Wisconsin, partnering with multiple statewide programs for parent education and support. She has testified multiple times in her state legislature on behalf of transgender healthcare access and has raised over a quarter of a million dollars for LGBTQ+ causes.

Her immediate family of four includes four nonbinary and transgender individuals- so she knows first hand the challenges that arise parenting transgender and nonbinary kids in the current U.S. political climate.

When she’s not working with other parents of trans youth, she runs all of the operations for Team Transpainter with her spouse, Rae Senarighi.