Resources For Parents
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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
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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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 - General Employment Rights
National Center for Transgender Equality
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Rights - Federally Protected Employment Rights
National Center for Transgender Equality
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Rights - Healthcare Specific Rights
National Center for Transgender Equality
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Rights - School Specific Rights
National Center for Transgender Equality
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Schools in Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 School
This first-of-its-kind guide publication from ACLU 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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TrevorSpace
TrevorSpace is an affirming international community for LGBTQ young people ages 13-24.
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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 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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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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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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Supporting the Transgender Community: Gender Affirming Care Resources
Supporting the Transgender Community: Gender Affirming Care Resources from Registered Nursing
Book Recommendations for parents
Two Spirits, One Heart: A Mother, Her Transgender Son, and their Journey to Love and Acceptance
by Marsha & Aiden Aizumi
He’s Always Been My Son: A Mother’s Story about Raising Her Transgender Son
·by Janna Barkin
The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens
·by Stephanie Brill, Lisa Kenney
The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals
by Stephanie A Brill, Rachel Pepper
Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes
by Christia Spears Brown
Gender Identity: Beyond Pronouns and Bathrooms
by Maria Cook, Alexis Cornell
A Practical Guide to Understanding Gender Variance: Including Intersex, Trans, Non-Binary & Gender Fluid Individuals
by Helen Dale
Transgender Profiles: Time for a Change
by Linda Defruscio-Robinson
I Promised Not to Tell: Raising a Transgender Child
by Cheryl B. Evans
What Does God Think?: Transgender People and The Bible
by Cheryl B. Evans, Colby Martin
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
Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians
by Austin Hartke
The Sign Around My Neck
by Lucas Hasten
Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are
by Declan Henry, Stephen Whittle
Parts and Hearts: A Kids (and Grown-Ups) Guide to Transgender Transition
by Jenson J. Hillenbrand
How to Understand Your Gender
by Alex Lantaffi
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
by Jazz Jennings
My Princess Boy
by Cheryl Kilodavis, Suzanne DeSimone
Helping Your Transgender Teen, 2nd Edition: A Guide for Parents
by Irwin Krieger
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders
by Joy Ladin
Families in Transition
by Arlene I. Lev & Andrew R. Gottlieb
Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child
by Stephanie & Eric Lohman
Trans Kids and Teens: Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition
by Elijah C. Nealy
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
by Amy Ellis Nutt
Thriving Through Transition: Self-Care for Parents of Transgender Children
by Denise O'Doherty
Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children
by Rachel Pepper
Who Are You?: The Kids Guide to Gender Identity
by Brook Pessin-Whedbee, Naomi Barduff
The Daughter We Didn’t Know We Had: The Tears, Fears, and Joys of a Mother of a Transgender Child
by Marilyn Phillips
Trans-Gender: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith
by Justin Sabia-Tanis
God Doesn’t Make Mistakes: Confessions of a Transgender Christian
by Laurie Suzanne Scott
Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman
by Abby Stein
Raising Ryland: Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child with Strings Attached
by Hillary Whittington