Resources for Parents
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A Guide to Supporting Your Child Coming Out as Trans
An online guide by thecut.com
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Anorexia in the Transgender Community - Within Health
Within Health aims to provide accessible and personalized care for everyone who needs it.
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Camp Aranutiq, NH
Summer Camp for transgender and gender diverse children. (scholarships available)
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Finding Your True Voice: A Guide to Gender-Affirming Verbal Communication
A Guide to Gender-Affirming Verbal Communication by Online Speech Pathology Programs
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Gender Diversity
Gender Diversity provides family support, works with schools, and provides community-building services to improve the well-being for people of all gender identities and expressions.
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Hidden Dangers: How Healthcare Bias Puts LGBTQ+ People of Color at Risk
By Dansker & Aspromonte
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Let's Talk About Intersex
Let's Talk About Intersex
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Letters to Advocate
A public PDF from the ACLU version that students and parents can print or email when advocating for themselves with schools.
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LGBTQ Discrimination in the Workplace
A guide from Joseph & Norinsberg Law Firm that looks deeper into the impact of LGBTQ workplace discrimination, and how to educate workers on preventing and handling these situations.
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Pride Youth Camp at Outlaw Ranch
A new week of faith-based camp in western South Dakota for 14-18-year-old LGBTQIA+ youth and their allies, offering a summer camp experience in the incredible setting of the Black Hills.
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Rights | Federally Protected Employment Rights
General Employment Rights National Center for Transgender Equality
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Rights | General Employment Rights
General Employment Rights National Center for Transgender Equality
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Rights | Healthcare Specific Rights
General Employment Rights National Center for Transgender Equality
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Rights | School Specific Rights
General Employment Rights National Center for Transgender Equality
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SAGE
Advocacy and services for LGBTQ elders.
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Schools in Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 Schools
This first-of-its-kind guide publication for school administrations, teachers, and parents about how to provide safe and supportive environments for all transgender students, kindergarten through twelfth grade.
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Suicide Prevention
sdsuicideprevention.org
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Supporting the Transgender Community: Gender Affirming Care Resources
Supporting the Transgender Community: Gender Affirming Care Resources from Registered Nursing
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The Family Acceptance Project
The Family Acceptance Project does research on how family acceptance or rejection impacts the long-term outcomes for LGBT kids. Everything they've done points to family acceptance as the single most important factor for these young people.
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The Gender Quest Workbook
The man who wrote the book is a psychology professor at Rhodes College and a trans man himself who studies suicide among trans and gender nonconforming people. This is a book parents and their trans kids can read together.
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The Two-Spirit People of Indigenous North Americans
An article from The Guardian
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TransFamilySOS
TransFamily Support Services guides transgender/non-binary youth and their families through the gender transitioning process to help make it the most positive experience possible. We provide family coaching, assistance with healthcare and insurance issues, help navigating the legal system, and support at schools All services are provided at no fee.
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Transgender Discrimination in the Workplace
A blog post from Employment Law Help on what trans workers can do if they face discrimination in the workplace.
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TrevorSpace
TrevorSpace is a LGBTQ youth-only discussion forum site moderated by trained adult counselors to protect the kids who use it.
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Why Sex is Not Binary
An article from The New York Times
Book Recommendations Parents
The Pants Project
by Cat Clarke
Wonderfully and Purposefully Made: I Am Enough: A Journal All About Me
by Cheryl B. Evans
Trans Teen Survival Guide
by Fox & Owl Fisher
This is How it Always Is
by Laurie Frankel
Sid Doesn’t Feel Like a Boy or a Girl!
by Dylan Greenberg
Red: A Crayon’s Story
by Michael Hall
The Sign Around My Neck
by Lucas Hasten
The Other Boy
by M.G. Hennessey, Sfe R. Monster
Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are
by Declan Henry, Stephen Whittle
How to Understand Your Gender
by Alex Lantaffi
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
by Jazz Jennings
Trans Kids
by Tey Meadow
Jamie is Jamie: A Book about Being Yourself and Playing Your Way
by Afsaneh Muradian, Maria Bogade
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
by Amy Ellis Nutt
The Asperkid's (Secret) Book of Social Rules: The Handbook of Not-So-Obvious Social Guidelines for Tweens and Teens With Asperger Syndrome
by Jennifer Cook O'Toole
Who Are You?: The Kids Guide to Gender Identity
by Brook Pessin-Whedbee, Naomi Barduff
Trans-Gender: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith
by Justin Sabia-Tanis