The National Center for Transgender Equality is a national social justice organization devoted to ending discrimination and violence against transgender people through education and advocacy on national issues of importance to transgender people. To learn more about legislative and public policy issues critical to advancing equality for transgender people, visit transequality.org.
Diane Ehrensaft, PhD, is a developmental and clinical psychologist and the author of “Gender Born, Gender Made,” a resource for parents, schools and clinicians with gender non-conforming children.
Raising children who don’t fit neatly into male or female boxes brings a wealth of questions and uncertainties. Gender Spectrum provides education, training and support to help create a gender sensitive and inclusive environment for all children and teens. Visit the Gender Spectrum website for information and support to assist you in your search for answers.
Founded in 1972 with the simple act of a mother supporting her gay son, PFLAG is the original family and ally organization. Made up of parents, families, friends, and allies uniting with LGBT people, PFLAG is committed to advancing equality through its mission of support, education, and advocacy. Now entering its 40th year, PFLAG has over 350 chapters and 200,000 supporters crossing multiple generations of American families in urban, suburban and rural areas in all 50 states. For more information on support for transgender/gender-variant youth, please visit www.pflag.org/transgender.
Out & Equal is committed to ending employment discrimination for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. Out & Equal believes that people should be judged by the work they do, not by their sexual orientation or gender identity. Every day, Out & Equal works to protect and empower employees to be productive and successful—so they can support themselves, their families, and contribute to achieving a world free of discrimination for everyone.
The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) is a social justice organization dedicated to advancing the equality of transgender people through advocacy, collaboration and empowerment.
This study brings to light what is both patently obvious and far too often dismissed from the human rights agenda. Transgender and gender non-conforming people face injustice at every turn: in childhood homes, in school systems that promise to shelter and educate, in harsh and exclusionary workplaces, at the grocery store, the hotel front desk, in doctors' offices and emergency rooms, before judges and at the hands of landlords, police officers, health care workers and other service providers.
AFC is dedicated to promoting awareness of the plight of homeless LGBT youth in the United States with the goal of generating responses on local and national levels from government funders, foundations, and the LGBT community.
The True Colors Residence is a project of West End Intergenerational Residence along with partners Cyndi Lauper and her manager Lisa Barbaris. True Colors is the first permanent, supportive housing facility for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth in New York State. Read a message from Lauper about her goals for the residence, and how you can help.
The Family Acceptance Project uses a research-based, culturally grounded approach to help ethnically, socially and religiously diverse families decrease rejection and increase support for their LGBT children. To access cutting-edge research and resources on how families can help support their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) children, click here.
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