Resources for Parents

  • A Guide to Supporting Your Child Coming Out as Trans

    An online guide by thecut.com

  • Anorexia in the Transgender Community - Within Health

    Within Health aims to provide accessible and personalized care for everyone who needs it.

  • Camp Aranutiq, NH

    Summer Camp for transgender and gender diverse children. (scholarships available)

  • Discrimination in the Workplace

    A blog post from Employment Law Help on what trans workers can do if they face discrimination in the workplace.

  • Finding Your True Voice: A Guide to Gender-Affirming Verbal Communication

    A Guide to Gender-Affirming Verbal Communication by Online Speech Pathology Programs

  • 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.

  • Let's Talk About Intersex

    Let's Talk About Intersex

  • Letters to Advocate

    A public PDF from the ACLU version that students and parents can print or email when advocating for themselves with schools.

  • 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.

  • Rights | Federally Protected Employment Rights

    General Employment Rights National Center for Transgender Equality

  • Rights | General Employment Rights

    General Employment Rights National Center for Transgender Equality

  • Rights | Healthcare Specific Rights

    General Employment Rights National Center for Transgender Equality

  • Rights | School Specific Rights

    General Employment Rights National Center for Transgender Equality

  • SAGE

    Advocacy and services for LGBTQ elders.

  • 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.

  • Suicide Prevention

    sdsuicideprevention.org

  • The Family Acceptance Project

    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.

  • 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.

  • The Two-Spirit People of Indigenous North Americans

    An article from The Guardian

  • 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.

  • TrevorSpace

    TrevorSpace is a LGBTQ youth-only discussion forum site moderated by trained adult counselors to protect the kids who use it.

  • Why Sex is Not Binary

    An article from The New York Times

Book Recommendations Parents

The Pants Project

by Cat Clarke

Wonderfully and Purposefully Made: I Am Enough: A Journal All About Me

by Cheryl B. Evans

Trans Teen Survival Guide

by Fox & Owl Fisher

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

The Sign Around My Neck

by Lucas Hasten

The Other Boy

by M.G. Hennessey, Sfe R. Monster

Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are

by Declan Henry, Stephen Whittle

How to Understand Your Gender

by Alex Lantaffi

Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen

by Jazz Jennings

Trans Kids

by Tey Meadow

Jamie is Jamie: A Book about Being Yourself and Playing Your Way

by Afsaneh Muradian, Maria Bogade

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family

by Amy Ellis Nutt

The Asperkid's (Secret) Book of Social Rules: The Handbook of Not-So-Obvious Social Guidelines for Tweens and Teens With Asperger Syndrome

by Jennifer Cook O'Toole

Who Are You?: The Kids Guide to Gender Identity

by Brook Pessin-Whedbee, Naomi Barduff

Trans-Gender: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith

by Justin Sabia-Tanis

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