FOR PARENTS
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Resources
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Suicide Prevention:
https://sdsuicideprevention.org/specific-populations/lgbtq/
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A Guide to Supporting Your Child Coming Out as Trans
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Summer Camp for transgender and gender diverse children:
(scholarships available)
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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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This organization 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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An organization that hosts conferences and other means of support for transgender children and their families.
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An organization that provides education, resources and training to help schools, health care providers, and family service agencies create a more gender sensitive and supportive environment for all children including gender variant and transgender youth.
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Let's Talk About Intersex
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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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Pride Camp, Iowa
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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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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 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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TransYouth Family Advocates
A coalition of parents, friends and caring adults dedicated to educating and raising public awareness about the medical and cultural challenges faced by children with gender variant and gender questioning identities and the families who love them.
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Video: Kat Blaque on pronouns and misgendering
Kat Blaque is a trans YouTube vlogger and in this video she explains what it feels like for her when someone uses male pronouns to refer to her. Adjusting to new pronouns is often so hard for parents that they just give up on trying, and this is a good primer on why they really need to work through that and use their child’s pronouns.
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An article from The New York Times
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Book Recommendations for Parents
Two Spirits, One Heart: A Mother, Her Transgender Son, and their Journey to Love and Acceptance
· Marsha & Aiden Aizumi
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He’s Always Been My Son: A Mother’s Story about Raising Her Transgender Son
· Janna Barkin
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The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens
· Stephanie Brill, Lisa Kenney
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The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals
· Stephanie A Brill, Rachel Peppe
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Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes
· Christia Spears Brown
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Gender Identity: Beyond Pronouns and Bathrooms
· Maria Cook, Alexis Cornell
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A Practical Guide to Understanding Gender Variance: Including Intersex, Trans, Non-Binary & Gender Fluid Individuals
· Helen Dale
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Transgender Profiles: Time for a Change
· Linda Defruscio-Robinson
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I Promised Not to Tell: Raising a Transgender Child
· Cheryl B. Evans
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My Parenting Journey with a Transgender Child
· Cheryl B. Evans
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What Does God Think?: Transgender People and The Bible
· Cheryl B. Evans, Colby Martin
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This is How it Always Is
· Laurie Frankel
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Sid Doesn’t Feel Like a Boy or a Girl!
· Dylan Greenberg
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Red: A Crayon’s Story
· Michael Hall
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Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians
by Austin Hartke
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The Sign Around My Neck
· Lucas Hasten
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Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are
· Declan Henry, Stephen Whittle
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Parts and Hearts: A Kids (and Grown-Ups) Guide to Transgender Transition
· Jenson J. Hillenbrand
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How to Understand Your Gender
· Alex Lantaffi
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Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
· Jazz Jennings
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My Princess Boy
· Cheryl Kilodavis, Suzanne DeSimone
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Helping Your Transgender Teen, 2nd Edition: A Guide for Parents
· Irwin Krieger
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Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders
· Joy Ladin
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Families in Transition
· Arlene I. Lev & Andrew R. Gottlieb
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Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child
· Stephanie & Eric Lohman
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Trans Kids and Teens: Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition
· Elijah C. Nealy
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Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
· Amy Ellis Nutt
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Thriving Through Transition: Self-Care for Parents of Transgender Children
· Denise O'Doherty
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Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children
· Rachel Pepper
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Who Are You?: The Kids Guide to Gender Identity
· Brook Pessin-Whedbee, Naomi Barduff
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The Daughter We Didn’t Know We Had: The Tears, Fears, and Joys of a Mother of a Transgender Child
· Marilyn Phillips
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Trans-Gender: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith
· Justin Sabia-Tanis
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God Doesn’t Make Mistakes: Confessions of a Transgender Christian
· Laurie Suzanne Scott
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Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman
· Abby Stein
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Raising Ryland: Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child with Strings Attached
· Hillary Whittington
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