This twenty-four-hour bilingual hotline offers assistance for LGBT survivors of violence.
The GLBT National Hotline provides telephone and online chat and e-mail peer-support, as well as factual information and local resources for cities and towns across the United States.
Trans Lifeline runs a hotline staffed by transgender people for transgender people. Volunteers are ready to respond to whatever support needs members of our community might have.
Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award–winning short film Trevor, the Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ+ young people ages thirteen to twenty-four. In addition to a hotline, the Trevor Project offers options for youth to text and chat online with counselors.
Arin Andrews. Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015.
Cris Beam. I Am J. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012.
S. Bear Bergman and kd diamond. Backwards Day. Flamingo Rampant, 2012.
S. Bear Bergman and Suzy Malik. The Adventures of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy. Flamingo Rampant, 2012.
Colt Keo-Meier, Jesse Yang, Nine Lam Stacey. Not a Girl. Self-published, 2017.
Kirstin Cronn-Mills. Beautiful Music for Ugly Children. North Star Editions, 2012.
Tanita S. Davis. Happy Families. Ember, 2013.
Marcus Ewert. 10,000 Dresses. Triangle Square, 2008.
Amy Fabrikant. When Kayla Was Kyle. Avid Readers, 2013.
Kim Fu. For Today I Am a Boy. Mariner Books, 2015.
Alex Gino. George. Scholastic Press, 2015.
Rachel Gold. Being Emily. Bella Books, 2012.
Katie Rain Hill. Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015.
Jazz Jennings. Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen. Crown Books for Young Readers, 2016.
Cheryl Kilodavis. My Princess Boy. Aladdin, 2010.
Susan Kulkin, ed. Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out. Candle-wick, 2015.
David Levithan. Every Day. Ember, 2013.
Julie Anne Peters. Luna. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006.
Meredith Russo. If I Was Your Girl. Flatiron Books, 2016.
Rylan J. Testa and Deborah Coolhart. The Gender Quest Workbook: A Guide for Teens and Young Adults Exploring Gender Identity. Instant Help, 2015.
Ellen Wittlinger. Parrotfish. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007.
Jennie Wood. A Boy Like Me. 215 Ink, 2014.
Cris Beam. Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers. Harvest Books, 2008.
Mary Boenke, ed. Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones. 3rd ed. PFLAG Transgender Network, 2008.
Stephanie Brill. The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals. Cleis Press, 2008.
Stephanie Brill and Lisa Kenney. The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens. Cleis Press, 2016.
Diane Ehrensaft. Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children. 3rd revised ed. Experiment, 2011.
Diane Ehrensaft. The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes. Experiment, 2016.
Eleanor A. Hubbard and Cameron T. Whitley. Trans-Kin: A Guide for Family and Friends of Transgender People. Bolder Press, 2012.
Irwin Krieger, Helping Your Transgender Teen: A Guide for Parents. Gender-wise Press, 2011.
Arlene Lev. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families. Haworth Clinical Practice Press, 2004.
Elijah C. Nealy. Transgender Children and Youth: Cultivating Pride and Joy with Families in Transition. W. W. Norton & Company, 2017.
Amy Ellis Nutt. Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family. Random House, 2016.
Hillary Whittington. Raising Ryland: Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child with No Strings Attached. William Morrow Paperbacks, 2016.
Ryka Aoki. Seasonal Velocities: Poems, Stories, and Essays. Trans-Genre Press, 2012.
Imogen Binnie. Nevada, a Novel. Topside Press, 2013.
Leslie Feinberg. Stone Butch Blues. Firebrand Books, 1993.
Roz Kaveney. Dialectic of the Flesh. A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2012.
Roz Kaveney. Tiny Pieces of Skull, or a Lesson in Manners. Team Angelica Publishing, 2015.
Tom Leger and Riley MacLeod, eds. The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard. Topside Press, 2012.
Sassafras Lowrey. Lost Boi. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015.
Michael Scott Monje Jr. Defiant. Autonomous Press, 2015.
Shani Mootoo. Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab. Doubleday Canada, 2014.
Casey Plett. A Safe Girl to Love. Topside Press, 2014.
Michael Quadland. Offspring. Red Hen Press, 2012.
Trish Salah. Wanting in Arabic. TSAR Publications, 2013.
K. M. Szpara, ed. Transcendent: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Lethe Press, 2016.
S. Bear Bergman. The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010.
Peter Boag. Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past. University of California Press, 2012.
Kate Bornstein. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. Vintage, 1994.
Kate Bornstein. My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity. Routledge, 2013.
Patrick Califia. Sex Changes: Transgender Politics. Cleis Press, 2003.
Loren Cameron. Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits. Cleis Press, 1996.
Trystan Theosophus Cotten. Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men. Transgender Press, 2012.
Noach Dzmura, ed. Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in the Jewish Community. Atlantic Books, 2010.
Dylan Edwards. Transposes. Northwest Press, 2012.
Anne Enke. Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies. Temple University Press, 2012.
Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Anne Fausto-Sterling. Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Men. Basic Books, 1992.
Anne Fausto-Sterling. Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World. Routledge, 2012.
Anne Fausto-Sterling. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. Basic Books, 2000.
Leslie Feinberg. Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman. Beacon Press, 1996.
Mel Reiff Hill and Jay Mays. The Gender Book. Marshall House Press, 2014.
Katrina Karkazis. Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience. Duke University Press, 2008.
Joanne Myerowitz. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. Harvard University Press, 2004.
Jay Prosser. Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality. Columbia University Press, 1988.
Kristen Schilt. Just One of the Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality. University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Julia Serano. Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive. Seal Press, 2013.
Julia Serano. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Seal Press, 2007.
Dean Spade. Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law. South End Press, 2011.
Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, eds. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. AK Press, 2015.
Susan Stryker. Transgender History. Seal Press, 2008.
Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, eds. The Transgender Studies Reader. Routledge, 2006.
Rebecca Swan. Assume Nothing. Soft Skull Press, 2010.
Nicholas M. Teich. Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue. Columbia University Press, 2012.
Michael Warner. Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory. University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Riki Anne Wilchins. Queer Theory: An Instant Primer. Alyson Books, 2004. Riki Anne Wilchins. Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender. Firebrand Books, 1997.
Michelle Alexander and Michelle Diane Rose. The Color of Sunlight: A True Story of Unconditional Acceptance Between a Rural RN and a Blind, Terminally-Ill Transsexual. CreateSpace, 2010.
Alison Bechtel. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Mariner Books, 2007.
S. Bear Bergman. Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013. Justin Vivian Bond. Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels. Feminist Press, 2011.
Helen Boyd. She’s Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband. Seal Press, 2007.
Jennifer Finley Boylan. She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders. Broadway Books, 2013.
Jamison Green. Becoming a Visible Man. Vanderbilt University Press, 2004.
Matt Kailey. Teeny Weenies and Other Short Subjects. Outskirts Press, 2012.
Nick Krieger, Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender. Beacon Press, 2011.
Thomas Page McBee. Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man. City Lights/Sister Spit, 2014.
Janet Mock. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More. Atria, 2014.
Beatriz Preciado. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. Feminist Press, 2013.
Megan M. Rohrer and Zander Keig, eds. Letters for My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect. Wilgefortis Press, 2014.
Daphne Scholinski. The Last Time I Wore a Dress. Riverhead Books, 1998.
Rae Spoon. First Spring Grass Fire. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. The End of San Francisco. City Lights Publishers, 2013.
Zane Thimmesch-Gill. Hiding in Plain Sight. Riverdale Avenue Books, 2015. Willy Wilkinson. Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency. Hapa Papa Press, 2015.
BTAC is a unique life-changing program that furthers education, provides linkage to resources, and offers community building and organizing, leadership development, and celebration of diverse identities. It includes a family day, pageant, ball, and awards gala. http://www.blacktrans.org/conference
This conference features a keynote address, biomedical and behavioral tracks, and a series of breakout sessions covering transition-related care training for clinical providers. Some of the topics include surgical care, medical-legal issues, the social determinants of health, microaggressions, and other important subjects for primary medical care providers and specialists, social workers, public health professionals, community advocates, medical researchers, epidemiologists, and scientists. http://www.chnnyc.org/6th-annual-conference-transgender-health
The National LGBTQ Task Force sponsors and organizes this conference, one of the largest LGBTQ+ gatherings in the country. Since 1988, Creating Change has created opportunities for many thousands of committed people to develop and hone their skills, celebrate victories, build community, and be inspired by visionaries of our LGBTQ+ movement and allied movements for justice and equality. http://www.creatingchange.org
Fantasia Fair is a week-long transgender event held every October in the LGBT resort town of Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 1975, the fair was conceived in response to a “need for cross-dressers and transsexuals to learn about themselves in an open, socially tolerant environment.” Provincetown was picked as the host city because of its reputation for tolerance and as a gay and lesbian mecca. With some help from a couple of female impersonators who lived in town, some doctors practicing on Cape Cod, a few cosmetic consultants and about forty participants, Fantasia Fair went from an idea to reality. http://www.fantasiafair.org
Gender Conference East was established to bring together families and caregivers of all kinds; connect families and caregivers to one another as well as to providers and resources; create fun and safe spaces for children, tweens, and teens of all gender identities and expressions; welcome young adults, students, and professionals to learn from one another and deepen their understanding of gender; and welcome thought partners to keep us accountable as we learn year after year the practices that build and sustain inclusive schools, families, and communities. http://www.genderconferenceeast.org
Gender Odyssey is an annual conference for families who are working to navigate the day-to-day realities of raising a gender diverse or transgender child. Gender Odyssey Family is an opportunity to find valuable resources, information and networking opportunities, and provides real tools to support and encourage your child’s gender self-discovery. http://www.genderodysseyfamily.org
The Gender Spectrum Conference is an opportunity for youth and families to spend a weekend gaining the resources, information, and community needed to help young people effectively navigate their world. Workshops for caregivers, parents, and other family members focus on sharing information to help you support the children in your life. The symposium is ideal for professionals who work with gender-expansive youth and/or their families. Participants take part in programming, activities, and immediately accessible resources designed to build the capacity of professionals for working with families and young people around issues of gender. https://www.genderspectrum.org
GLMA, formerly known as the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, is an organization of health professionals working in LGBT health. GLMA’s annual conference educates practitioners and students from across the health professions about the unique health needs of LGBT individuals and families. The conference is a forum for discussion and exploration of how best to address these needs through research and clinical care. The conference also focuses on the needs of LGBT health professionals and health-profession students. http://www.glma.org
PTHC was founded in 2001 and is the largest transgender-specific conference in the world, with more than two thousand attendees. Its mission is to educate and empower trans individuals on issues of health and well-being; educate and inform allies and health-service providers; and facilitate networking, community building, and systemic change. https://www.mazzonicenter.org/trans-health
Southern Comfort is a large conference that has taken place annually since 1991. It is attended by predominantly transgender women and pulls particularly from southern states, but it is also a welcoming space for people of all gender identities from a variety of geographic regions. There is an annual ball, a membership dinner, and local trips. http://southerncomfortconference.org
TIC explores a wide array of topics in discourses regarding gender and transgender identities, expressions, communities, and intersections. TIC is a free, student-organized, nonprofit conference that seeks to reach not only the University of Vermont and Burlington community but the nation as a whole. A one-day event, TIC has numerous sessions to choose from at any time that are directed toward people at all levels of inclusion in the trans and allied communities. http://www.uvm.edu/translatingidentity
Every two years, WPATH holds an international symposium focusing on the latest advances in research, education, clinical service, and advocacy to promote the health and well-being of transgender people and their families. http://www.wpath.org
The Aggressives (dir. Daniel Peddle; 2005): A documentary look at the lives of six female-assigned people with a wide range of gender presentations who participate in New York City’s predominantly African American drag balls.
Boy I Am (dir. Sam Feder and Julie Hollar; 2006): Though female-to-male transgender visibility has recently exploded in this country, conversations about trans issues in the lesbian community often run into resistance from the many queer women who view transitioning as a “trend” or as an anti-feminist act that taps into male privilege. Boy I Am is a feature-length documentary that begins to break down that barrier and promote dialogue about trans issues through a look at the experiences of three young transitioning FTMs in New York City—Nicco, Norie, and Keegan—as well as through the voices of lesbians, activists, and theorists who raise and address the questions many people have but few openly discuss.
Diagnosing Difference (dir. Annalise Ophelian; 2005): How does it feel to have your identity in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? This film interviews scholars, activists, and artists on the trans spectrum about the impact of the gender identity disorder (GID) diagnosis on their lives.
Free Cece! (dir. Jac Gares; 2016): On her way to the store with a group of friends, Chrishaun Reed “CeCe” McDonald was brutally attacked. While defending her life, a man was killed. After a coercive interrogation, CeCe was incarcerated in a men’s prison in Minnesota. An international campaign to free CeCe garnered significant support from media and activists, including actress Laverne Cox. This film confronts the culture of violence surrounding trans women of color, and is told through the voices of Laverne Cox and Cece McDonald. http://www.freececedocumentary.net/the-film.html
Growing Old Gracefully: The Transgender Experience (dir. Joe Ippolito; 2014): For the first time in history, cohorts of trans and gender-nonconforming people are entering their senior years. This film showcases the personal experiences of three older trans people, as well as interviews with activists, clinicians, and researches. Additionally, the film looks at places where transphobia, ageism, racism, and classism intersect, and it explores the history of the trans movement. Some of the aging issues addressed in the film include health-care concerns, financial issues, housing problems, fear of loneliness, de-transitioning, and death and dying.
I’m Just Anneke (dir. Jonathan Skurnik, New Day Films; 2010): I’m Just Anneke is a portrait of a twelve-year-old girl who loves ice hockey and has a loving, close-knit family. Anneke is also a hardcore tomboy and everybody she meets assumes she’s a boy. The onset of puberty has created an identity crisis for Anneke. Does she want to be a man or a woman when she grows up, or something in between? To give her more time to make a decision, her doctor has put her on Lupron, a hormone blocker that temporarily delays the hormones of adolescence. Despite rejection by her friends and struggles with suicidal depression, Anneke is determined to be true to herself and maintain a gender-fluid identity that matches what she feels on the inside. I’m Just Anneke takes us into the heart of a new generation of children who are intuitively questioning the binary-gender paradigm.
Kate Bornstein Is a Queer and Pleasant Danger (dir. Sam Feder; 2013): Performance artist and writer Kate Bornstein explodes binaries while deconstructing gender—and her own identity: Trans-dyke. Reluctant polyamorist. Sadomasochist. Recovering Scientologist. Pioneering gender outlaw. Sam Feder’s playful and meditative portrait on Bornstein captures rollicking public performances and painful personal revelations as it bears witness to this trailblazing artist-theorist-activist who inhabits a space between male and female with wit, style, and astonishing candor.
Ma Vie En Rose (dir. Alain Berliner; 1997; French with English subtitles): In this film—the title of which translates to My Life in Pink—a young transgender child named Ludovic, raised as a boy, explores her gender as her parents and their new neighbors watch with confusion and anger. The other children in the film—one of whom is a child assigned female who prefers masculine clothing—help to highlight the role of play and exploration in identity development.
MAJOR! (dir. Annalise Ophelian; 2016): MAJOR! explores the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated black transgender elder and activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for more than forty years. Miss Major is a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion, a survivor of Attica State Prison, and a former sex worker, but she is simply “Mama” to many in her community. Her personal story and activism for transgender civil rights highlight LGBT struggles for justice and equality from the 1960s to today. At the center of Griffin-Gracy’s activism is her fierce advocacy for her girls, trans women of color who have survived police brutality and incarceration in men’s jails and prisons.
Paris Is Burning (dir. Jennie Livingston; 1990): A chronicle of New York’s LGBTQ+ scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing, and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (dir. Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker; 2005): A documentary about transgender women and drag queens who fought police harassment at Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood in 1966, three years before the famous riots at the Stonewall Inn.
She’s a Boy I Knew (dir. Gwen Haworth; 2007): Using interviews, animation, old family footage, and voice mail, Vancouver filmmaker Gwen Haworth documents her male-to-female gender transition partially through the voices of her anxious but loving family, best friend, and wife. The film focuses on the interpersonal relationships of a family who unexpectedly find their bonds strengthening as they overcome their preconceptions of gender and sexuality.
Southern Comfort (dir. Kate Davis; 2001): Southern Comfort documents the final year in the life of Robert Eads, a transgender man. Eads, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, was turned down for treatment by two dozen doctors out of their fear that treating such a patient would hurt their reputations. By the time Eads received treatment, the cancer was too advanced to save his life. However, he and his group of Southern transgender friends live on in this film.
Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen (2008): This film focuses on six black trans men and highlights the complex ways in which they navigate their lives, from learning to tie a tie to discussing the unique pressures they face as trans men of color. The cast members talk about their medical transitions, their sexual identities, their relationships with their fathers and brothers, and how they view masculinity.
Three to Infinity: Beyond Two Genders (dir. Lonny Shavelson; 2015). A documentary about people who are neither male nor female. Agender, genderqueer, and more, they’re redefining gender, challenging masculinity and femininity, and taking us into a provocatively new gender frontier.
We’ve Been Around (dir. Rhys Ernst; 2016): Created by Rhys Ernst (coproducer of Amazon’s hit Transparent) and produced by Christine Beebe, We’ve Been Around is a series of documentary shorts that chronicle the lives of transgender trailblazers. Episodes feature Lucy Hicks Anderson, Albert Cashier, Little Axe, and Lou Sullivan, as well as the organization Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries and the movement Camp Trans. “Trans people have always existed, and have lived many different lives,” Ernst said in a press release. “The central theme of We’ve Been Around is stated in the title. We’ve been here, throughout time, often hidden in plain sight. These stories show us just how important it is to share our histories.”
The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice is the only philanthropic organization working exclusively to advance LGBTQ+ human rights around the globe. Astraea supports brilliant and brave grantee partners in the United States and internationally who challenge oppression and seed change. http://www.astraeafoundation.org
The mission of the Jim Collins Foundation is to provide financial assistance to transgender people for gender-confirming surgeries. The foundation recognizes that not every transgender person needs or wants surgery to achieve a healthy transition. For those who do, gender-affirming surgeries are an important step in their transition to being their true selves. However, access to gender-affirming surgery is impossible for most. Discrimination against transgender people is so prevalent that many transgender people struggle to survive, never mind save for surgery costs. Even for those who have health insurance, coverage is systematically denied. https://jimcollinsfoundation.org
The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative, founded in 2012, to support grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people. The project centers the leadership of trans people organizing around their experiences with racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration, and other intersecting oppressions. Every penny raised goes to grantees with no restrictions and no strings attached. http://www.transjusticefundingproject.org
Founded in 1973, Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and those with HIV through impact litigation, education, and public-policy work. http://www.lambdalegal.org
Through strategic litigation, public-policy advocacy, and education, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders works in New England and nationally to create a just society free of discrimination based on gender identity and expression, HIV status, and sexual orientation. www.glad.org
Despite its name suggesting that NCLR works only on lesbian-related legal issues, this organization, founded in 1977, is committed to advancing the civil and human rights of LGBT people. NCLR litigates precedent-setting cases at the trial and appellate court levels, advocates for equitable public policies affecting the LGBT community, provides free legal assistance to LGBT people and their legal advocates, and conducts community education on LGBT issues. http://www.nclrights.org
The National Center for Transgender Equality is a national social-justice organization devoted to ending discrimination and violence against transgender people through education and advocacy on issues of importance to transgender people. By empowering transgender people and allies to educate and influence policymakers and others, NCTE facilitates a strong and clear voice for transgender equality in our nation’s capital and around the country. http://www.transequality.org
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression regardless of income or race and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. SRLP is a collective organization founded on the understanding that gender self-determination is inextricably intertwined with racial, social, and economic justice. Therefore, SRLP seeks to increase the political voice and visibility of low-income people and people of color who are transgender, intersex, or gender non-conforming. SRLP works to improve access to respectful and affirming social, health, and legal services for our communities. http://srlp.org
This nonprofit organization is dedicated to engaging in effective advocacy for transgender people in our society by bringing together experts and advocates to work on law and policy initiatives designed to advance transgender equality. The Transgender Law and Policy Institute makes weekly announcements of changes in state or federal law affecting trans people and hosts a searchable database on college and employer transgender policies and hate crime laws. http://www.transgenderlaw.org
This organization works to change law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression. The Transgender Law Center offers legal information and resources and hosts webinars as well as programs like its Detention Project, which works to end the abuses transgender and gender nonconforming people experience in prisons, jails, immigration detention, state hospitals, and other forms of detention, and at the hands of law enforcement. http://transgenderlawcenter.org
TLDEF is committed to ending discrimination based upon gender identity and expression and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal services, community organizing and public-policy efforts. TLDEF continually seeks to leverage limited resources through innovative programs designed to harness the resources of the private bar for the public good. TLDEF’s Name Change Project provides free, legal name-change services to community members through partnerships with some of nation’s premier law firms and corporate law departments. http://tldef.org
Committed to saving the lives of LGBTQ+ youth, Carl Siciliano founded AFC in 2002 in memory of Ali, a gender-nonconforming teen who fled his home at thirteen, entered the foster-care system, and ended up living on the streets, where he was shot dead in 1997. AFC’s mission is to protect LGBTQ+ youth from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to live independently. Programs include a drop-in center, emergency and transitional housing, and medical and mental health care. http://www.aliforneycenter.org
ALP is a community-organizing center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, Two Spirit, trans, and gender-nonconforming (LGBTSTGNC) people of color communities. Initiated as an organizing effort by a coalition of LGBTSTGNC people of color, ALP was first brought together in 1994 by Advocates for Gay Men of Color, a multiracial network of gay men of color HIV policy advocates. The vision for ALP grew out of the expressed need for innovative and unified community strategies to address the multiple issues impacting LGBTSTGNC people of color communities. http://alp.org
This organization provides quality new or gently used binders to trans men eighteen and over (or younger when a parent makes contact) who would otherwise not be able to afford a new binder at retail prices due to hardship. Although controversial, the program is only for trans men who truly identify as male, wish to or are currently undergoing hormone replacement therapy, plan to have a double mastectomy with chest reconstruction, and plan to live or are currently living as male full time. http://www.thetransitionalmale.com/BBUB.html
Black and Pink is an open family of LGBTQ+ prisoners and “free world” allies who support one another. Its work toward the abolition of the prison industrial complex is rooted in the experience of currently and formerly incarcerated people. Black and Pink is outraged by the specific violence of the prison industrial complex against LGBTQ+ people and responds through advocacy, education, direct service, and organizing. http://www.blackandpink.org
Launched in 2010, the Brown Boi Project works to build leadership, economic self-sufficiency, and the health of young masculine-of-center womyn, trans men, and queer/straight men of color, pipelining them into the social justice movement. The Brown Boi Project is a diverse and broad community, driven by a commitment to racial justice, gender justice, and transforming the privilege of masculinity into a tool for social change. The organization prioritizes support that improves the lives of masculine-of-center womyn and queer and trans people of color; works to transform the lives of women and girls; and introduces new alliances and tools for challenging racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia across our communities. http://www.brownboiproject.org
Camp Aranu’tiq is a week-long overnight summer camp for transgender and gender-variant youth ages eight to fifteen, with southern California and southern New England locations. The camp builds confidence, resilience, and community for transgender and gender-variant youth and their families. Aranu’tiq was founded in 2009 by Nick Teich, who dreamed of a safe and fun place for youth who felt they might not fit in at other camps because of their gender and/or who wanted to be with others like them. The first summer week in New England launched in 2010 with forty-one campers. Aranu’tiq also offers leadership programs for older teens and weekend family camps, and serves five hundred campers over the course of one year. http://www.camparanutiq.org
FIERCE! is a membership-based organization building the leadership and power of LGBTQ+ youth of color in New York City. FIERCE! develops politically conscious leaders who are invested in improving themselves and their communities through youth-led campaigns, leadership development programs, and cultural expression through arts and media. FIERCE! is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of social justice movement leaders who are dedicated to ending all forms of oppression. http://www.fiercenyc.org
FORGE is a national transgender antiviolence organization, founded in 1994. Since 2009, it has been federally funded to provide direct services to transgender, gender-nonconforming, and gender-nonbinary survivors of sexual assault. Since 2011, FORGE has served as the only transgender-focused organization federally funded to provide training and technical assistance to providers around the country who work with transgender survivors of sexual assault, domestic and dating violence, and stalking. http://forge-forward.org
The website GenderCreativeKids.ca provides resources for supporting and affirming gender-creative kids within their families, schools, and communities. By offering information and opportunities for connection between parents and caregivers, educators, health and social service providers, researchers, activists, and children/youth across Canada, Gender Creative Kids hopes to help transform the world into a safe, affirming, and joyful place for all children. GenderCreativeKids.ca is a joint effort between Gender Creative Kids Canada, a parent action group based in Montreal; Project 10, an LGBTQ+ youth organization based in Montreal; PFLAG Montreal, an organization helping those who are struggling with issues of sexual orientation and gender identity; and the hosts of the National Workshop on Gender Creative Kids. http://gendercreativekids.ca
Gender Spectrum’s mission is to create a gender-inclusive world for all children and youth. To accomplish this, Gender Spectrum helps families, organizations, and institutions increase understandings of gender and consider the implications that evolving views have for each of us. https://www.genderspectrum.org
GLSEN (pronounced “glisten”) was founded in 1990 by a small but dedicated group of Massachusetts schoolteachers who came together to improve an education system that too frequently allows its LGBTQ+ students to be bullied, discriminated against, or fall through the cracks. GLSEN provides resources for students and educators, including lesson plans, professional development, and support for Gay-Straight Alliances in schools. http://www.GLSEN.org
The Hetrick-Martin Institute believes all young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential. Hetrick-Martin creates this environment for LGBTQ+ youth between the ages of thirteen and twenty-four and their families. Services include meals, clothing, high school equivalency preparation, job readiness, and counseling. http://www.hmi.org
LGBT Books to Prisoners is a donation-funded, volunteer-run organization, based in Madison, Wisconsin, that sends books and other educational materials free of charge to LGBTQ-identified prisoners across the United States. LGBT Books to Prisoners has been in operation for nearly ten years and has sent books to more than six thousand prisoners in that time; in 2015, 3,04,2 packages of books were sent. https://lgbtbookstoprisoners.org
The National LGBT Cancer Network works to improve the lives of LGBT cancer survivors and those at risk by educating the LGBT community about our increased cancer risks and the importance of screening and early detection; training health-care providers to offer more culturally competent, safe, and welcoming care; and advocating for LGBT survivors in mainstream cancer organizations, the media, and research. http://www.cancer-network.org
The National Resource Center on LGBT Aging is the country’s first and only technical-assistance resource center aimed at improving the quality of services and supports offered to LGBT older adults. Established in 2010 through a federal grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services, the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging offers training, technical assistance, and educational resources to providers, LGBT organizations, and LGBT older adults. The center is led by Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) in collaboration with eighteen leading organizations from around the country. http://www.lgbtagingcenter.org
Founded in 1972 with the simple act of a mother publicly supporting her gay son, PFLAG is the nation’s largest family and ally organization. Uniting people who are LGBTQ+ with families, friends, and allies, PFLAG is committed to advancing equality through its mission of support, education, and advocacy. PFLAG has four hundred chapters and two hundred thousand supporters crossing multiple generations of American families in major urban centers, small cities, and rural areas in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. https://www.pflag.org
Lyon-Martin Health Services, founded in 1979 as a clinic for lesbians, hosts Project Health, a national transgender medical service that provides presentations on transgender health care, rotations for health professions students, support for clinics interested in providing transgender health care, and a national online transgender medical consultation service (Transline) for health care providers. http://project-health.org
Safe Schools Coalition, located in Washington State, is a public-private partnership in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth that works to help schools become safe places where every family can belong, every educator can teach, and every child can learn, regardless of gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation. http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org
Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders is the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT older adults and their caregivers. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City, SAGE offers supportive services and consumer resources, advocates for public-policy changes to address the needs of LGBT older people, and provides training for providers and LGBT organizations, largely through its National Resource Center on LGBT Aging. With offices in New York City, Washington, DC, and Chicago, SAGE coordinates a growing network of thirty local SAGE affiliates in twenty states and the District of Columbia. http://www.sageusa.org
The TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender, gender-variant and intersex people—inside and outside prisons, jails, and detention centers—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom. TGI Justice works in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against human rights abuses, imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. TGI Justice seeks to create a world rooted in self-determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice. http://www.tgijp.org
An internationally recognized nonprofit focused on serving the diverse needs of transgender and gender-nonconforming children, youth, and their families and allies, the TransActive Gender Center provides a holistic range of services and expertise to empower transgender and gender-diverse children, youth, and their families in living healthy lives, free of discrimination. http://www.transactiveonline.org
TransAthlete.com is a resource for students, athletes, coaches, and administrators to find information about trans inclusion in athletics at various levels of play. www.transathlete.com
The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria, Canada, is committed to the preservation of the history of pioneering activists, community leaders, and researchers who have contributed to the betterment of transgender and gender-nonconforming people. Since 2007, the Transgender Archives has been actively acquiring documents, rare publications, and memorabilia of persons and organizations associated with activism by and for transgender and gender-nonconforming people. The Transgender Archives began with the generous donation of the Rikki Swin Institute collection and has been enhanced by other significant donations, including the personal papers of Reed Erickson, the entire University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archive collection, and the records of Zenith Foundation of Vancouver Canada, among many others. The Transgender Archives’ records of research related to trans and gender-nonconforming people go back over one hundred years, while records of activism by trans and gender-nonconforming people span more than fifty years and come from eighteen countries across five continents. The collections comprise the largest trans archives in the world. http://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives
The Transgender Oral History Project is a community-driven effort to collect and share a diverse range of stories from within transgender and gender-variant communities promoting grassroots media projects, documenting trans people’s experiences, maintaining a publicly accessible digital archive, and teaching media production skills. http://transoralhistory.com
TransParent envisions a world that honors and affirms the natural human experience of gender independence. TransParent’s mission is to normalize this experience by supporting and encouraging parents to act in their child’s best interest; empowering gender independent children to live authentically; identifying and organizing experienced and knowledgeable local resources to assist families; and creating safe spaces in our community for gender-independent children. http://www.transparentsUSA.org
Trans Kids Purple Rainbow is committed to the premise that gender dysphoria is something a child can’t control and it is society that needs to change, not the child. Families need to support their children and be encouraged to allow them to grow-up free of gender roles. http://www.transkidspurplerainbow.org/about-us
Founded in 2010, Trans People of Color Coalition was created by people of color who felt unheard and underrepresented in the trans equality movement. TPOCC became an effort to organize trans people of color to fill the void of representation of POC voices included in making key decisions that impact the trans community at large. http://transpoc.org
The Trans Youth Equality Foundation provides education, advocacy, and support for transgender and gender-nonconforming youth and their families. The foundation’s mission is to share information about the unique needs of this community, partnering with families, educators, and service providers to help foster a healthy, caring, and safe environment for all transgender children. http://www.transyouthequality.org