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New Trans Youth Research Information 10-25-2011

This study used three focus groups to explore factors that affect the experiences of youth (ages 15 to 21) who identify as transgender. The focus groups were designed to probe transgender youths’ experiences of vulnerability in the areas of health and mental health.

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Transgender and Intersex Web Sites

  • The T-House online program serves the transgender community with linkage to culturally competent HIV/AIDS medical care services.T-House helps you to be safe, healthy, and YOU! http://www.t-houseonline.com/
  • TYFA : Empowers children and families by partnering with educators, service providers and communities, to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected. http://imatyfa.org/
  • KarensPlace: A safe and supportive place where they can explore who you really are and obtain the informationand guidance to sucessfully transition. http://www.karens-place.org/
  • PFLAG Transgender Network: http://www.pflag.org/TNET.tnet.0.html
    Support organization specifically for transgenders, their families and friends. Special Affiliate chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG).
  • True Colours: This website represents young people who experience transsexualism and a network of their parents, families and supporters throughout Australia. http://www.truecolours.org.au/index.html
  • PFLAG Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays:  http://www.pflag.org
    Support organization for family members and friends of all GLBT individuals. Excellent support for families coming out and recognizing their gay, lesbian, or transgender children or siblings.
  • TransFamily of Cleveland: http://www.transfamily.org
    Excellent Family support site. Newsletter, couples, spouses, parents, and youth discussion elists. Hundreds of members from all over the world.
  • Mermaids: Family support for children and teenagers with gender Identity issues. www.mermaids.freeuk.com/
  • IFGE: http://www.ifge.org
    International Federation for Gender Education – The leading Trans oriented web site. News, events, publications worldwide
  • Families Like Mine: http://www.familieslikemine.com/index.html
    Site for children of GBLT parents. Excellent.
  • National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC): http://www.ntac.org
    Legal and political action site. The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition works proactively to reform societal attitudes and the law to achieve equal rights for the transgendered and other gender diverse individuals.
  • National Transgender Law Institute: http://www.transgenderlaw.org
    Transgender legal affairs activist site. Weekly announcements of changes in state or federal law affecting trans people. Searchable database on college and employer transgender policies, hate crime laws.
  • Children’s National Medical Center, Parent Guide: If You Are Concerned About Your Child’s Gender Behaviors… click here for website
  • Excellent Youth Resource Site: http://www.advocatesforyouth.com
  • Gender Odyssey Family: An organization dedicated to the education and support of families raising gender variant, gender non-conforming, gender-fluid, crossgender, and transgender children and adolescents: http://www.genderodysseyfamily.org
  • Gender Spectrum: Provides education, training and support to help create a gender sensitive and inclusive environment for all children and teens. http://www.genderspectrum.org/
  • Genderfork: A supportive community for the expression of identities across the gender spectrum. http://www.genderfork.com/
  • GLSEN:  http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/home/index.html The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network: Strives to assure that each member of every school community is  valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
  • The Transgender Resource Guide:
    http://www.datehookup.com/content-the-transgender-resource-guide.htm.

Transgender Reading

  • Our Trans Children (pamphlet)
    Published by the PFLAG Transgender Network (TNET).
    An introduction to transgender concepts and issues. This should be the first publication given to any new parents, family, or friends of anyone coming out as transgender. Request by email at pflagtnet@triad.rr.com
  • Carly: She’s Still My Daddy
    by Mary Boenke. Published by the PFLAG Transgender Network (TNET).
    Brand new fiction for children grades 4 to 7. A child’s story of the transition of her mtf TS “dad.” Request by email at pflagtnet@triad.rr.com
  • The Agony of Nurturing the Spirit
    by Stephanie. Published by PFLAG Philadelphia.
    A mother’s true story of raising a transgendered child It describes the family’s journey of pain and heartache through acceptance and understanding as they watch their 6 year old son become their daughter. Request by email at pflagphila@yahoo.com.
  • True Selves
    by Mildred L. Brown, PhD and Chloe Ann Rounsley
    A serious book by a therapist with over 25 years of working with transgender individuals Available online at www.Amazon.com
  • Finding the Real Me
    Edited by Tracie O’Keefe and Katrina Fox
    A compilation of stories by transgenders about their accepting, transitioning, and coming out process Available online at www.Amazon.com
  • TransgenderEmergence
    by Arlene Istar Lev, CSW-R, CASAC.
    An outstanding book of historical and the most current guidelines for addressing the needs of all gender-variant people, including transgendered children and youth. Available from www.Amazon.com
  • Made in God’s Image
     by Ann Thompson Cook and Dumbarton United Methodist Church.
    “An exceptional resource for people of faith who want to open their hearts to a wider discussion of gender issues.” – Rev. Erin K. Swenson. Request by email at pflagtnet@triad.rr.com.
  • Out, Safe, and Respected and Bending the Mold
    An Action Kit for Transgender Youth These kits are centered on the idea that knowledge of their legal rights is critical to improving the safety of LGBT and questioning students. They contain brief summaries of information for Safety, GSAs, Allies, Action, the Law, Negotiation, and Resources. FREE from Lambda Legal;request by email at PDavis@lambdalegal.org or your local PFLAG Chapter.

Studies

  • To the Beat of a Different Drummer
    A report about gender variant children: Source: Contemporary Pediatrics
    By: Ellen C. Perrin, MD, Edgardo J. Menvielle, MD, Catherine Tuerk, MA, RN“
    A child who is truly ‘gender-variant’ is one who exhibits an ongoing pattern of behavior, not merely a passing interest in the clothes or the preoccupations of the opposite sex.

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