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Top Eleven Tips
For parents, caregivers and other allies of trans children & youth.
Rosetta Stone for Male Bodied/Female Identified Youth
Helping adults understand... what the kids already know
Rosetta Stone for Female Bodied/Male Identified Youth
Helping adults understand... what the kids already know
Families in Transition
A resource guide for parents and caregivers of trans children & youth.
About A Girl
Letter from a young woman to her friends and family regarding her gender transition.
Dear Mom & Dad
Letter from a trans girl to her parents
Letter from Rachel's Mother
Mother of trans daughter shares her feelings.
Letter from Rachel's Father
Father of trans daughter shares his feelings.
Oregon Safe School Act: A "How-To" Guide For Students, Faculty & Staff
How to implement and utilize the new Oregon law that requires schools to provide safe and respectful learning experiences for transgender and gender non-conforming children and youth.
San Francisco Unified School District School Climate Survey:
Elementary School Findings
Middle School Findings (including transgender student percentage on pg. 11)
High School Findings (including transgender student percentage on pg. 10)
Know YOUR Rights In School code guidelines
Harsh Realities: Trans Youth & Harassment in School(GLSEN)
This 2009 report is the first to focus specifically on the experiences of transgender youth in our nation's schools.
School Challenges & Policy Recommendations
A helpful guide for administrators, faculty & staff.
National Education Association - Strengthening The Learning Environment
A school employee's guide.
A School Administrator's Guide
Providing supportive, safe & defensible school policies & environments for gender non-conforming students.
ResourcesPDX / Trans Identity Resource Center (TiRC)
A service of Outside In, the Trans/ Identity Resource Centre (TiRC) provides gender-related services and information for all sexualities, genders, and cultural identities. TiRC offers practical resources, as well as outlets for intellectual growth, self-expression, and identity exploration to persons who may otherwise be disconnected from resources.
TiRC houses The Trans Health Clinic, ResourcesPDX, the ID Project, peer-counseling, extensive referrals and internet resources, hormone-needle exchange, and other support groups/activies/communtity forums.
Scientists Find Genetic Link to Affirmed Female Trans Identity
Australian researchers identify DNA variation linked to male bodied children who identity as female.
Best Interests of The Child - Key Standards for Custody Determinations
Oregon School Boards Association: Discrimination & Bullying Laws
Release of Psychiatric Records in Child Custody Disputes
Driver's License Policies by State (National Center for Transgender Equality)
Birth Certificate Changes (USA & Canada)
Changing Name & Gender on Birth Certificates
Social Security Administration
transAction
Transgender curriculum for churches & religions organizations.
transAction - Leaders Manual
Gender Identity & Our Faith Communities
A congregational guide for transgender accuracy
The Gifts of Transgender People 1 | The Gifts of Transgender People 2 | The Gifts of Transgender People 3 |
The Gifts of Transgender People 4 | Dramatic Reading A - Our Stories | Dramatic Reading B - Our Stories |
Dramatic Reading C - Our Stories |
United Church of Christ Coalition for LGBT Concerns
The following books are recommended by TransActive staff. They may focus specifically on issues affecting transgender and gender non-conforming children, youth and their families or they may have information that may be helpful or of interest to them.
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"The Transgender Child" by Stephanie Brill & Rachel Pepper (Highly Recommended!)
This comprehensive first of its kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state.
"10,000 Dresses" by Marcus Ewert, Illustrations by Rex Ray
This gorgeous picture book—a modern fairy tale about becoming the person you feel you are inside—will delight people of all ages.
"Transparent: Love, Family & Living The T With Transgender Teenagers" by Cris Beam
In this gripping, illuminating and deeply moving portrait of transgender teens in Los Angeles, the smallest incidents reverberate sharply.
