FOR EDUCATORS
Resources:
Suicide Prevention
https://sdsuicideprevention.org/specific-populations/lgbtq/
Let's Talk About Intersex
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.
Gender Odyssey Family: An organization that hosts conferences and other means of support for transgender children and their families.
Gender Spectrum: 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.
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.
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.
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.
Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians by Austin Hartke
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.
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.
School Specific Rights
Why Sex is Not Binary
The 'two-spirit' people of indigenous North Americans
Book Recommendations for Educators, Health Care Providers, and Clergy
Trans-Gender: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith
· Justin Sabia-Tanis
Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes
· Christia Spears Brown
Trans Kids
· Tey Meadow
Trans Kids and Teens: Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition
· Elijah C. Nealy
Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children
· Rachel Pepper
Gender Identity: Beyond Pronouns and Bathrooms
· Maria Cook, Alexis Cornell
Transgender Profiles: Time for a Change
· Linda Defruscio-Robinson
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity
· Theresa Thorn, Noah Grigni
About Chris
· Nina Benedetto
Parts and Hearts: A Kids (and Grown-Ups) Guide to Transgender Transition
· Jenson J. Hillenbrand
Jamie is Jamie: A Book about Being Yourself and Playing Your Way
· Afsaneh Muradian, Maria Bogade
Sid Doesn’t Feel Like a Boy or a Girl!
· Dylan Greenberg
The Sign Around My Neck
· Lucas Hasten
Who Are You?: The Kids Guide to Gender Identity
· Brook Pessin-Whedbee, Naomi Barduff
A Practical Guide to Understanding Gender Variance: Including Intersex, Trans, Non-Binary & Gender Fluid Individuals
· Helen Dale
A Practical Guide to Gender Diversity and Sexuality in Early Years
· Deborah Price
Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are
· Declan Henry, Stephen Whittle
The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals
· Stephanie A Brill, Rachel Peppe
The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens
· Stephanie Brill, Lisa Kenney
Helping Your Transgender Teen, 2nd Edition: A Guide for Parents
· Irwin Krieger
Gender Diversity and LGBTQ Inclusion in K-12 Schools: A Guide to Supporting Students, Changing Lives
· Sharon Verner Chappell, Karyl E. Ketchum
The Gender Affirmative Model: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Supporting Transgender and Gender Expansive Children
· Colt Keo-Meier, Diane Ehrensaft
Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary People with Disabilities or Illness: A Good Practice Guide for Health and Care Provision
· Jennie Kermode
How to Understand Your Gender
· Alex Iantaffi
Supporting Young Transgender Men: A Guide for Professionals
· Matthew Waites
Transgender Health
· Benjamin Vincent, Stuart Lorimer
Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child
· Stephanie & Eric Lohman
God Doesn’t Make Mistakes: Confessions of a Transgender Christian
· Laurie Suzanne Scott
Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman
· Abby Stein
What Does God Think?: Transgender People and The Bible
· Cheryl B. Evans, Colby Martin
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders
· Joy Ladin