Resources For Educators
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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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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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LGBTQI+ Educator Rights
GLSEN: Harassment and discrimination against LGBTQI+ employees — including educators and other school staff — are against the law. LGBTQI+ employees are protected by federal laws and the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Despite this, many LGBTQI+ educators still experience harassment and discrimination every day. Here’s what you need to know.
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Rights | School Specific Rights
General Employment 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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The Family Acceptance Project
The Family Acceptance Project from San Francisco State University 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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Transforming
The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians by Austin Hartke
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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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The Two-Spirit People of Indigenous North Americans
An article from The Guardian
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Let's Talk About Intersex
Let's Talk About Intersex
Book Recommendations for Educators
Trans-Gender: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith
by Justin Sabia-Tanis
Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes
by Christia Spears Brown
Trans Kids
by Tey Meadow
Trans Kids and Teens: Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition
by Elijah C. Nealy
Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children
by Rachel Pepper
Gender Identity: Beyond Pronouns and Bathrooms
by Maria Cook, Alexis Cornell
Transgender Profiles: Time for a Change
by Linda Defruscio-Robinson
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity
by Theresa Thorn, Noah Grigni
About Chris
by Nina Benedetto
Parts and Hearts: A Kids (and Grown-Ups) Guide to Transgender Transition
by Jenson J. Hillenbrand
Jamie is Jamie: A Book about Being Yourself and Playing Your Way
by Afsaneh Muradian, Maria Bogade
Sid Doesn’t Feel Like a Boy or a Girl!
by Dylan Greenberg
The Sign Around My Neck
by Lucas Hasten
Who Are You?: The Kids Guide to Gender Identity
by Brook Pessin-Whedbee, Naomi Barduff
A Practical Guide to Understanding Gender Variance: Including Intersex, Trans, Non-Binary & Gender Fluid Individuals
by Helen Dale
A Practical Guide to Gender Diversity and Sexuality in Early Years
by Deborah Price
Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are
by Declan Henry, Stephen Whittle
The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals
by Stephanie A Brill, Rachel Peppe
The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens
by Stephanie Brill, Lisa Kenney
Helping Your Transgender Teen, 2nd Edition: A Guide for Parents
by Irwin Krieger
Gender Diversity and LGBTQ Inclusion in K-12 Schools: A Guide to Supporting Students, Changing Lives
by Sharon Verner Chappell, Karyl E. Ketchum
The Gender Affirmative Model: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Supporting Transgender and Gender Expansive Children
by Colt Keo-Meier, Diane Ehrensaft
Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary People with Disabilities or Illness: A Good Practice Guide for Health and Care Provision
by Jennie Kermode
How to Understand Your Gender
by Alex Iantaffi
Supporting Young Transgender Men: A Guide for Professionals
by Matthew Waites
Transgender Health
by Benjamin Vincent, Stuart Lorimer
Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child
by Stephanie & Eric Lohman
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
What Does God Think?: Transgender People and The Bible
by Cheryl B. Evans, Colby Martin
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders
by Joy Ladin