gender affirming people & organizations
Youth
The lists in these pages are not comprehensive. If you have any suggestions, please email me to add them.
Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Students
If you’re transgender or gender non-conforming, questioning, or an ally this kit, developed by Lambda Legal and NYAC, is designed to help you make your school a safer place.
Beyond the Binary: A Tool Kit for Gender Identity Activism in Schools
The Beyond the Binary tool kit (created by the Transgender Law Center) was designed for student leaders, activists, and gender non-conformers who want to raise awareness about gender through education.
Camp Aranu'tiq
The Camp Aranu'tiq mission is to provide transgender and gender-variant youth with a safe, fun, and unique camp experience during which they are able to express gender however they are comfortable and connect with others in similar situations.
Families in TRANSition: A Resource Guide for Parents of Trans Youth
Families in TRANSition: A Resource Guide for Parents of Trans Youth is the first comprehensive Canadian publication (created by Central Toronto Youth Services) to address the needs of parents and families supporting their trans children.
Gender Spectrum
Gender Spectrum provides training, information, and consultation designed to help families, educators, and organizations understand the needs of gender creative children and youth.
GLSEN: Transgender Student Rights
Transgender Student Rights is a grassroots student created organization, formed in 2009, dedicated to creating safer schools for students regardless of their gender identity and expression that has been managed by GLSEN since 2013.
Harsh Realities: The Experiences of Transgender Youth in Our Nation's Schools
Download this document which extrapolates data from the 2009 National School Climate Survey to better understand the experiences of trans and gender nonconforming middle and high school students.
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Founded in 1969, the Los Angeles LGBT Center is the largest LGBT organization in the world, dedicated to building a world where LGBT people thrive as healthy, equal, and complete members of society.
Mermaids
A UK-based support group offering support and resources for gender-variant children, teens, and their families.
Supporting and Caring for Our Gender Expansive Youth
Download this document that extrapolates data from the 2012 HRC study Growing Up LGBT in America to better understand the experiences of trans and gender nonconforming youth.
The TransActive Gender Project at Lewis & Clark
TransActive works to provide the necessary support to improve the quality of life of transgender and gender non-conforming children, youth and their families through education, services, advocacy and research.
Trans Youth Equality Foundation
The Trans Youth Equality Foundation offers education, advocacy and support for transgender and gender non-conforming children and youth and their families everywhere by sharing information about their unique needs.
Trans Youth Family Allies (TYFA)
TYFA works to empower children and families by partnering with educators, service providers and communities, to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected. They envision a society free of suicide and violence in which all children are respected and celebrated.
TREVOR PROJECT
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ youth under the age of 25. Established in 1998, the Trevor Project offers suicide prevention workshops, trainings for allies, guides for questioning youth, advocacy networks that work to improve LGBTQ policies, and so much more.
Working with Transgender Youth
This guide, created by Lambda Legal and the Child Welfare League of America, provides child welfare professionals who work with transgender young people with education about transgender issues and tools to help prepare them to work sensitively with these clients.