Resources For Educators

  • 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.

  • Hidden Dangers: How Healthcare Bias Puts LGBTQ+ People of Color at Risk

    By Dansker & Aspromonte

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Suicide Prevention

    sdsuicideprevention.org

  • Supporting the Transgender Community: Gender Affirming Care Resources

    Supporting the Transgender Community: Gender Affirming Care Resources from Registered Nursing

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Transforming

    The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians by Austin Hartke

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