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Genders & Sexualities Alliances Network

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Genders & Sexualities Alliances, or GSAs for short, are student-run organizations that unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and…

Growing Up Coy

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When 6-year-old Coy Mathis was told she could not use the girls’ bathroom at her Colorado public school, her parents decided to fight back against the ban placed on their…

Hard Questions Answered

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Information from the American Academy of Pediatrics By: Jason RaffertyMD, MPH, EdM, FAAP Parenting a gender-diverse child can leave some parents with a lot of questions and concerns for their…

How Common Are Transgender Siblings

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Published in the Hollywood Reporter Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles talks to THR about the Wachowski’s “trans cred” and just how common their story is. The Wachowski siblings are…

HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools

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HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools is the most comprehensive bias-based bullying prevention program in the nation to provide LGBTQ and gender inclusive professional development training, lesson plans, booklists and resources specifically…

Mental Health and Self-Worth in Socially Transitioned Transgender Youth

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Research published by the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Objective Social transitions are increasingly common for transgender children. A social transition involves a child presenting…

Model District Policy for Trans and GNC Students (pdf)

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This document presents Model District Policy on Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students, which outlines best practices for schools to ensure that all students are safe, included and respected in school,…

Preventing Suicide

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Information from the Trevor Project about how to prevent suicide among LGBTQ+ young people. Each one of us can play a vital role in ensuring that all young people, regardless…

Public Activism: Media Training for Parents

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Summer 2022 Advocacy 101 Series: Webinar 2 Recorded: July 27, 2022 Public Activism: Media Training for Parents and Caregivers of Transgender/Nonbinary Youth with Rebecca Kling

Raising the Transgender Child

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Written by top experts in the field, Raising the Transgender Childoffers much-needed answers to all the questions parents and other adults ask about raising and caring for transgender and gender diverse…

Real Boy

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While “Growing Up Coy” and “Raising Zoey” reveal the close ties of familial support and youth empowerment, “Real Boy” presents a more challenging portrait of family and understanding. Bennett Wallace,…

Self-Care in a Time of Trans Visibility

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Recorded March 31, 2021 HOST Nikki Neuen GUESTS Debi Jackson, Michele Angello, PhD Nikki Neuen, Trans Families Executive Director, hosts this webinar featuring renowned parent activist Debi Jackson who will…

The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation

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Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and authenticity to tell the real-life story of a family’s history and transformation. “A courageous and poetic testimony…

The Gender Affirmative Model (for therapists)

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This warm and timely book provides mental health professionals with a guide to the gender affirmative model, the leading approach for working with transgender and gender expansive children and their…

The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes

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From a leading US authority on a subject more timely than ever—an up-to-date, all-in-one resource on gender-nonconforming children and adolescents In her groundbreaking first book, Gender Born, Gender Made ,…

The Most Dangerous Year

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In 2016 a small group of families with transgender kids joined the fight against a wave of discriminatory anti-transgender legislation that swept the nation and their home state. With the…

The Trans Self-Care Workbook

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If you’re transgender, non-binary, or any other gender under the wide and wonderful trans umbrella, this book is for you. A creative journal and workbook with a difference, this book…

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves

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There is no one way to be transgender. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a revolutionary resource–a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender and gender expansive…