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Resource Index

• COVID-19 Related Support

• Emergency Resources (Financial/Housing/Victim Support)

• Gender Affirming Products

• Legal Resources

• LGBTQIA+ Programs, Organizations & Centers

• Medical Care

• Mental Health

• Student & Educator Resources

Additional resources

Additional national and state resources can be found in the Trans in the South Guide by the Campaign for Southern Equality and the Outlist. / Se pueden encontrar recursos nacionales y estatales adicionales en la Guía Trans en el Sur de Campaign for Southern Equality y la Outlist.

COVID-19 Related Support

Rapid Response

• Campaign for Southern Equality’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant Program

• SC Stay Plus Emergency COVID-19 rental and utility assistance program

school support

• Checklist for School Social Workers: This new tip sheet produced by HRC and Project THRIVE partner the School Social Work Association of America guides school social workers on supporting LGBTQ students during distance learning. 

• Checklist for School School Counselors: This new tip sheet produced by HRC and Project THRIVE partner the School Social Work Association of America guides school social workers on supporting LGBTQ students during distance learning. 

Resource Lists

• 211 United Way Resource Hub

  • Call 211 or Visit SC211.org

• Findhelp.org to find food assistance, help paying bills, and other free or reduced cost programs, including new programs for the COVID-19 pandemic based on your area code.

Financial Assistance

Funding Your Transition: A Resource Guide by Gender Benders. This guide was created in September 2015 and is a compilation of research and the lived experiences of the Gender Benders. .

Point of Pride:

• Annual Transgender Surgery Fund: provides a scholarship-like funding to those in financial need for gender affirming surgeries.

The Point Foundation:

• Community College Scholarship: scholarship for LGBTQ+ youth attending community colleges who would be interested in transitioning to a 4-year college or university.

• Point’s Scholarship: scholarship for LGBTQ+ youth leaders attending 4-year colleges or universities.

• 1-833-887-6462

• info@pointfoundation.org

Trans Lifeline:

• Financial assistance for legal name changes and updating identification documents.

• US (877) 565-8860

• Canada (877) 330-6366

• microgrants@translifeline.org

The Trans Love Fund:

• Provides microgrants to trans identified individuals in SC for medical, legal, and emergency housing costs.

TUFF (Trans United with family and friends):

• Provides financial assistance for Gender Affirming Surgery costs.

The Transgender Foundation of america

• Trans Disaster Relief Fund: financial assistance for members of the trans community who need support due to a disaster.

TLDEF (Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund):

• The Name Change Project: provides probono legal name change services for transgender, nonbinary, or gender non-confirming people in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, specific counties in NJ and NY, Philadelphia, PA, and Pittsburg, PA.

Shelters & Rehousing Programs

• Lowcountry Continum of Care

  • Call Continum of Care FIRST

  • 1-843-737-8357

• One80 Place Rehousing Rapid Program

  • Ages 18-24

  • 1-843-737-8357

  • lowcountrycoc.org/get-help

• One80 Place

  • Ages 18+

  • 1-843-737-8357

  • lowcountrycoc.org/get-help

• My Sister’s House

  • Female identifying and AFAB persons 18+, children aged 4-17

  • 843-747-4069

  • hope@mysistershouse.com

• Carolina Youth Development Center

  • Runaway and Homeless Youth Program, ages 12-17

  • Emergency Solutions Grant Program, ages 18-21

  • 843-266-5200

  • info@cydc.org

Victim Support Services

• The Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC) is a federally funded project providing education and resources about the crime of stalking. SPARC offers victim resources related to domestic violence and sexual assault service providers.

• Tri-County S.P.E.A.K.S. provides essential services to victims and survivors of sexual violence, and to educate and engage the community in the awareness and prevention of sexual assault in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties.

Legal Resources

• Trans Health Legal Fund

  • A legal defense fund for those criminalized for accessing gender-affirming healthcare

• Condon Family Law:

  • 4840 Chateau Ave., North Charleston, SC 29405

  • 1-843-225-7288

• Lambda Law Southern Regional Office:

  • 1-404-897-1880

• Transgender Law and Policy Institute:

  • info@transgenderlaw.org

• Transgender Awareness Alliance:

  • Name Changes, legal assistance

  • info@taagg.org

• National Center for Lesbian Rights:

  • 1-800-528-6257

  • info@nclrights.org

• The Trans Youth Handbook is a legal resource guide that covers the rights of trans youth across such a wide spectrum of situations, including identity documents, school, health care, non-affirming care environments, and work.

LGBTQI+ Programs, Organizations, & Centers

Organizations

• The Family Acceptance Project launched a national, integrated online resource to help LGBTQ Youth and Families find services and increase support for youth. Resources accessible through the new site include: support services for LGBTQ youth; peer support for parents, caregivers, and families; LGBTQ community centers; LGBTQ health clinics; gender clinics; school supports; affirming faith-based organizations and resources; and a national list of culture-based resources for ethnically and racially diverse LGBTQ communities.

• The Alliance for Full Acceptance (AFFA) has a new resource hub that will connect the LGBTQ community to resources and service providers. Categories include: LGBTQ+ Support, Medical, Mental Health, Legal, Religious/Spiritual, and more.

• Campaign for Southern Equality uses a range of tools in including direct services, direct action, litigation, grant-making, and long-term organizing strategies to respond to immediate community needs, support a new generation of LGBTQ leaders and build political power over the long term.

• CenterLink is a member-based coalition to support the development of strong, sustainable, LGBTQ community centers. They strengthen, support, and connect LGBTQ community centers, and help build the capacity of these centers to address the social, cultural, health, and political advocacy needs of LGBTQ community members across the country.

• FORGE reduces the impact of trauma on trans/non-binary survivors and communities by empowering service providers, advocating for systems reform, and connecting survivors to healing possibilities. FORGE strives to create a world where ALL voices, people and bodies are valued, respected, honored, and celebrated; where every individual feels safe, supported, respected, and empowered.

• SMYAL (Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders) is a LGBTQ+ organization based in Washington, DC. They have a resource list that includes everything from crisis support lines to scholarships.

• Future Perfect Project offers art & songwriting workshops, animation series, and much more! By making safe spaces for LGBTQ+ Youth & Allies to express themselves through the arts, connect with one another, and amplify their voices, FPP is creating a future where every young person feels safe, seen, and celebrated in their home and community.

• one•n•ten provides empowering social and service programs for LGBTQ+ youth and young adults that promote self‐expression, self‐acceptance, leadership development, and healthy life choices. They have virtual camps, book clubs, workforce development, and much more!

• Lambert House offers LGBTQ youth over 30 different annual and ongoing programs, activities, resources, and services including numerous online Zoom groups, Discord, Minecraft, and more!

• Stand With Trans is dedicated to developing programs, educational events and support groups to serve transgender youth. They offer support groups, parent support, book clubs and many other events and resources!

• Highlander Research and Education Center - serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. Through popular education, language justice, participatory research, cultural work, and intergenerational organizing, they create spaces where people gain knowledge, hope and courage, expanding their ideas of what is possible.

Camps

• Camp Gender Benders

• Queer Oriented Radical Days of Summer (QORDS)

  • qords@qords.org

• Camp Lightbulb hosts summer, weekend and virtual camps for LGBTQ+ youth!

Online Support

• Q Chat Space

  • Live chat discussion groups for LGBTQ+ teens

  • Check out the website for group topics and times

• TRUTH is a youth-led program for trans and gender nonconforming young people to build public understanding, empathy, and a movement for liberation through storytelling and media organizing.

  • truth@gsanetwork.org

• LGBTQ National Youth Talkline

  • Open 4pm-12am EST

  • 1-800-246-7743

  • help@LGBThotline.org

• Roses Youth Council

  Are you a trans girl of color who is sparking change around your community and want to connect with other leading girls nationwide? Do you want to boost your organizing, research, and leadership skills and build movement experience with other young activists? Do you want to share your own story and support other trans youth in sharing theirs?

  The Roses Initiative is a trans youth leadership program supported by GSA Network and Transgender Law Center via Gender Justice Leadership Programs. The initiative centers the expertise and leadership of trans girls of color who are organizing toward a future free from the violence trans women and girls of color face for living as their authentic selves.

• GSA Network's Black Trans Queer Space
  Are you a Black Trans or Queer Young Person who is looking for other young people in the Black Trans and Queer Community sparking change around your community and want to connect with other Black Trans and Queer Folk throughout the South? Do you want to boost your organizing, research, and leadership skills and build movement experience with other young activists? Do you want to share your own story and support other Black Trans and Queer youth in sharing theirs?

  GSA Network’s Black Trans and Queer Space is a 6-month initiative centering the expertise and leadership of Black Trans and Queer youth who are organizing toward our liberated future, free from the violence toward Black and Trans folk while creating an environment for living as our authentic selves.

• Trans Family Support Services works to shape a gender affirming and accepting community by offering family engagement services, support groups, trainings and education.

Resource Centers

• AFFA (Aliance for Full Acceptance):

  • 1-843-883-0343

• SC Equality

  • 1-803-256-6500

  • info@scequality.org

• Human Rights Campaign

• Charleston Pride

  • info@charlestonpride.org

• Tri-County S.P.E.A.K.S. (formerly People Against Rape)

  • 1-843-745-0144

• gaygull

Sports and Social Groups

• The Charleston Sports & Social Club

  • 1-843-327-5924

  • charlestonssc@gmail.com

• CYAP (Carolina Youth Action Project): an abolitionist organization that centers political education and community organizing to build power among girls, trans youth, and gender nonconforming youth.

• Harriot Hancock Center: For over 30 years, the Harriet Hancock Center has been providing support & services for the LGBTQ+ community in the Midlands area. 

• LIT! (Lowcountry in Transition): LIT is a group by and for trans and nonbinary* people trying to support each other through creating community, hosting support and social events, and sharing resources. We meet from 1:00-2:30 on the 4th Saturday of the month.

• Lowcountry Neurodiverse Network: a grassroots effort to create a community for individuals and families in the Lowcountry.

• PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbian and Gays): the first and largest organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQ+ people and their families.

• PrideLink: a community center and wellness space for Upstate, SC LGBTQ+ people.

• Time Out Youth (TOY): offers support, advocacy, and opportunities for personal development and social interaction to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) youth ages 13-24 in Charlotte, NC.

Religious Centers

• Circular Congressional Church

  • 843-577-6400

  • circular@circularchurch.org

• Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim

  • 843-723-1090

• Masjid Al-Rabia

  • Located in Chicago, IL with virtual programming

• Metropolitan Community Church Charleston

  • 1-843-760-6114

  • mcc.charleston@gmail.com

• North Charleston United Methodist Church

  • 843-744-6669

• Parkside Church

  • (843) 817-8900

• Unitarian Church in Charleston

  • 1-843-723-4617

  • office@charlestonuu.org

Medical Care Resources

Additional resources

Additional national and state resources can be found in the Trans in the South Guide by the Campaign for Southern Equality and the Outlist. / Se pueden encontrar recursos nacionales y estatales adicionales en la Guía Trans en el Sur de Campaign for Southern Equality y la Outlist.

• WPATH (World Professional Association of Transgender Health) Standards of Care

• The Queer Wellness Center is the first LGBTQ+ community center and wellness clinic in Upstate SC!

• Project HEAL announced a new direct-service program offering free, impartial, and culturally-competent diagnoses for individuals struggling with disordered eating. The new Clinical Assessment Program is available to anyone living in the U.S. regardless of their insurance, financial capacity, race, gender, age, previous treatment history, or co-occurring diagnoses.

Dental Care

• Monica J. Cayouette, DMD:

  • 29 Bee St., Charleston, SC 29425

  • 1-843-792-2101

• Michael K. Lecholop, DMD:

  • 29 Bee St., Charleston, SC 29425

  • 1-843-792-2101

Electrolysis

• Judy’s Electrolysis:

  • 202 Castle Harbor Dr., Summerville, SC 29483

  • 1-843-871-1020

• Advanced Permanent Hair Removal:

  • 106 Blythe Ave., Summerville, SC 29485

  • 1-843-670-7000

• Lowcountry Plastic Surgery:

  • 1205 Two Island Court, Suite 203, Mount Pleasant, SC 29466

  • 1-843-971-2860

• Mount Pleasant MediSpa:

  • 999 Lake Hunter Circle, Suite D, Mout Pleasant, SC 29464

  • 1-843-375-0270

Empowerr Program

• Provides services for Substance Abuse, Sexual Health, and case management; has 3 youth programs.

• 67 President St., MSC 861, Charleston, SC 29425

• 1-843-792-8356

• 1-843-792-3625

Endocrinology & Hormone replacement therapy

• Debra Bowlby, MD, MSc:

  • 2250 Mall Dr., North Charleston, SC 29406

  • 2705 Highway 17 N., Mount Pleasant, SC 29466

  • 1-843-792-1414

  • bowlbyd@musc.edu

• Harasha Karanchi, MD:

  • 2124 Charlie Hall Blvd., Charleston, SC 29414

  • 8992 University Blvd., North Charleston, SC 29406

  • Waccamaw Medical Park West, 4040 Highway 17 Bypass, Suite 306, Murrells Inlet, SC 29576

  • 1-843-792-9200

• QueerMed

  • Popup clinics in North Charleston, SC and virtually

  • 1-404-445-0350

Fetter Healthcare

• Offering low-cost or free health care for Primary Care, Dental, Pediatrics, Female Assigned Reproductive Health, Behavioral Health, Pharmacy, Homelessness Program, Migrant Outreach, School-Based Services, & Case Management.

• 20+ locations in the TriCounty Area

• 1-843-722-4112

HIV Care

• Ryan White Wellness Center

  • 1481 Tobias Gadson Blvd., Charleston, SC 29407

  • 1-843-402-3093

• Palmetto Community Care

  • 1-843-747-2273

  • information@palmettocare.org

Internal Medicine

• Virginia Frontiero, MSN:

  • 135 Rutledge Ave., Charleston, SC 29425

  • 1-843-876-0888

• Marie-Florence Shadlen, MD:

  • 116 West 2nd N. Street, Summerville, SC 29483

  • 1-843-810-0464

Planned Parenthood

• Offering low-cost or free health care for Hormone Replacement Therapy, Birth Control, General Healthcare, HIV testing, Emergency Contraception, Pregnancy testing and services, STD testing and services, Female Assigned Reproductive Health, & Male Assigned Reproductive Health.

• 1312 Ashley River Rd., Charleston, SC 29407

• 1-800-230-7526

• 1-843-628-4380

Primary Care

• Gweneth Lazenby, MD:

  • 135 Cannon St., Charleston, SC 29425

  • 1-843-792-5300

• Cristin Adams, DO:

  • 650 Ellis Oak Dr., James Island, SC 29412

  • 1-843-792-3451

• Christopher Bunt, MD:

  • 864 Island Park Dr., Suite 101, Daniel Island, SC 29492

  • 1-843-876-7975

• Richard Kidd, DNP:

  • 8992 University Blvd., North Charleston, SC 29406

  • 1-843-876-8555

• David Castellone, MD:

  • 213 West 4th Street N., Summerville, SC 29483

  • 1-843-873-0681

• Stuart Dawson, MD:

  • 213 West 4th Street N., Summerville, SC 29483

  • 1-843-873-0681

• Susan Datta, MD:

  • 180 Wingo Way, Suite 306, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

  • 1-843-884-1777

• Amanda Jones, PA-C, MPH:

  • North Charleston, Downtown, and James Island Locations

  • Provides gender affirming care (including hormones)

  • 843-792-3451

SpeEch Therapy & Voice Modification Training

• Katie Hodgson, M.Ed, MA, CCC-SLP (she/her):

  • 1316 Rutledge Ave., Charleston, SC 294033050

• Northern Tides Speach and Language:

  • 843-474-2240

  • 1744 Sam Rittenberg Blvd., Charleston, SC 29407

Truesdale Medical Center

• Offers primary health care, mental health care, hormone replacement therapy, women’s health care, HIV care, and PrEP.

• 6296 Rivers Avenue, Suite 310 North Charleston, SC 29406

• 843-266-3870

• info@truesdalemedical.org

Telehealth

• Plume provides gender-affirming care directly from your smartphone. Membership with Plume includes everything you need to start, continue, and maintain your gender-affirming hormone treatment.

• Folx Health

• QueerDoc provides telemedicine-based gender affirming medical care from queer and gender-diverse providers and offer services in Alaska, California, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

• True U Clinic is an online hormone therapy clinic that provides safe and medically supervised hormone therapy to the trans and non-binary community.

Top Surgery

• William Terranova, MD:

  • 2901 Tricom St., North Charleston, SC 29406

  • 1-843-797-0440

• Cosmetic Concierge:

  • 325 Arlington Ave., Charlotte, NC 28203

  • 1-980-938-0459

• Keelee MacPhee, MD:

  • 5826 Fayetteville Rd., Suite 209, Durham, NC 27713

  • 1-919-341-0915

Mental Health Resources

• Emergency and Help Resources

  • If you are thinking of hurting yourself, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at:

    • English: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

    • Spanish: 1-888-628-9454

    • Options for Deaf or Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889

  • For the TransLifeLine call 1-877-565-8860

  • For the Trevor Project Hotline:

    • Call 1-866-488-7386

    • Text START to 678678

    • Use the TrevorChat instant messaging system 7 days a week 3pm-10pm EST

• We Are Family’s Mental Health Assistance Program: a program that provides free mental health services for LGBTQI+ youth and connects them with LGBTQI+ affirming therapists.

• Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective: BEAM is a training, movement building and grant making organization dedicated to the healing, wellness and liberation of Black and marginalized communities.

• Guide for LGBTQ Youth: This guide from HRC and the Child Mind Institute offers specific tips for LGBTQ youth about the importance of mental health, how to help a friend struggling with mental health issues, and how to find an LGBTQ-affirmative therapist.

• NAMI Charleston Area: NAMI is is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. They provide resources, education, and support groups surrounding various mental health conditions.

• Inclusive Therapists: Inclusive Therapists offers a safer, simpler way to find a culturally responsive, social justice-oriented therapist. They center the needs of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. We amplify the voices and expressions of Neurodivergent and Disabled communities.

• Surviving Suicide Loss: Resource and Healing Guide. This comprehensive guide from American Foundation for Suicide Prevention serves as an empathetic and supportive resource for those who have experienced suicide loss. The guide can also serve as an important resource for providers to inform their work with those impacted by suicide loss.

• Mental Health America's Latinx/Hispanic Communities and Mental Health Resource Page details the impact of mental health issues on Latinx and Hispanic populations in the U.S. and provides resources, Spanish language materials, and tools for helping find a therapist.

• The Upswing Fund aims to support a more integrated and higher quality adolescent mental health system for adolescents who are of color and/or LGBTQ+ by providing direct resources to organizations serving these populations. They offer many national resources and toolkits.

• The Collective is a place for Black youth to hang out and learn about mental health from trusted sources. We learn from each other about how mental health impacts us and what we do about it.

Additional resources

Additional national and state resources can be found in the Trans in the South Guide by the Campaign for Southern Equality and the Outlist. / Se pueden encontrar recursos nacionales y estatales adicionales en la Guía Trans en el Sur de Campaign for Southern Equality y la Outlist.

All providers listed below have completed our Mental Health Interventions for LGBTQIA+ Youth cultural competency training and have been vetted to provide affirming and safe mental health services for queer and trans youth.

Charlie Health

Location: Intensive Out Patient Programs, Individual Therapy, Family Therapy, Family Support Groups for individuals in South Carolina

Website: https://www.charliehealth.com/

Phone number: (866) 491-5196

Insurances accepted: Accepts all major insurance plans and Medicaid

Specialties: Personality Disorders, Anxiety, Depression, Gender Identity & Gender Dysphoria, Self Harm, Trauma, Substance Abuse & Misuse, Dissociative Disorders, Mood Disorders, Behavioral Issues

LGBTQI+ Affirming School Toolkits & Resources

• GLAD, GLSEN, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and PFLAG National have collaborated to create SafeSchoolsForAll.org for students, parents, and supporters to take action against bullying, harassment and discrimination. The website is rooted in guidance from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education.

• Kaleidoscope Youth Center's Know the Facts Resource Page provides information on LGBTQIA+ affirming practices, Title IX, supporting QTPOC youth, and what students, educators, parents, and administrators can do to create inclusive school environments for LGBTQ+ youth.

• Teach Pride, Reach Wide Toolkit

  This educator’s toolkit is directly informed by the needs of LGBTQ+ students in Marin County. It contains allyship/advocacy tips, information about pronoun use, assessing and addressing the needs of gender-diverse youth, training to help students understand gender-diversity, community resources and LGBTQ+ curriculum guides.

• GSA Network’s Virtual GSAs In Action: Digital Organizing Toolkit & Training Series

  GSA Network is extremely proud to launch Virtual GSAs In Action: Digital Organizing Toolkit–-a new resource inspired by, and designed for, trans and queer youth activists, GSA club advisors and educators, and grassroots organizations across the country.

  Trans and queer young people of color want to build community in this moment. They are searching for places that affirm their identities and experiences, uplift their spirit, and promote self and community care. The Virtual GSAs In Action Toolkit was created to support them to start a Community GSA, take their existing school-based GSA clubs online, create new clubs, and above all, build virtual spaces that can restore our community.

• Checklist for School Social Workers: This new tip sheet produced by HRC and Project THRIVE partner the School Social Work Association of America guides school social workers on supporting LGBTQ students during distance learning. 

• Checklist for School School Counselors: This new tip sheet produced by HRC and Project THRIVE partner the School Social Work Association of America guides school social workers on supporting LGBTQ students during distance learning.

• Be a Beacon is a professional development training for all K-12 school-based staff who work with youth on how to create supportive learning environments for LGBTQIA+ students. Created by Out Youth’s Texas GSA Network

• After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools 2nd Edition: the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) produced After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools to assist schools in the aftermath of a suicide in the school community. This second edition includes updated information and new material.

Student Resources

• GSA Network: trans and queer youth uniting for racial and gender justice! GSA Network is a next-generation LGBTQ racial and gender justice organization that empowers and trains queer, trans and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities.

• The Ultimate Guide to Resources for LGBTQ+ Students provides resources for finding LGBTQ+ friendly colleges and communities, scholarships and grants for LGBTQ+ college students, LGBTQ+ organizations, clubs, and events, fighting discrimination and homophobia in college, LGBTQ+ hotlines and resources for mental health, and more!!

• FREE College Application Advising to underserved students from Tutoring By Sam!!

Scholarships For LGBTQIA+ Students:

• List of scholarships for LGBT college students.

• EduMed Scholarships & Resources for LBTQIA+ College Students

The Jim Collins Foundation:

• General Fund: provides recipients with 100% of the costs associated with Gender Affirming Surgery.

• Krysallis Anne Hembrough Legacy Fund: provides recipients with 50% of the costs associated with Gender Affirming Surgery.

• LGBTQ Scholarship: college scholarships for LGBTQ+ students graduating from highschool.

• College Educated LGBTQ Scholarships: lists scholarship opportunities for students who identify as LGBTQ+

• Point is the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students of merit.

PFLAG (Parents, Family, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays) Scholarships:

• PFLAG National Scholarship Program: scholarships for LGBTQI+ and allied students graduating from high school.

The Point Foundation:

• Community College Scholarship: scholarship for LGBTQ+ youth attending community colleges who would be interested in transitioning to a 4-year college or university.

• Point’s Scholarship: scholarship for LGBTQ+ youth leaders attending 4-year colleges or universities.

• 1-323-933-1234

• info@pointfoundation.org

Educational Resources

• Refinery 29’s Gender Nation Glossary : This is a crowd-sourced glossary of gender identity and sexual orientation terminology. It’s filled with 85 terms (and counting) defined by people who identify with the terms themselves.

• Q+ EDU imagines what the world would look like if schools actually met the needs of LGBTQIAP2+ students. This interactive virtual experience is designed to connect, inform, and empower LGBTQIAP2+ and ally students, parents, and educators. Content will cover queer life, student leadership, parent support, education advocacy, and queer sex and relationships.Sex Education & other health information

• Advocates for Youth 3R’s Curriculum: Rights, Respect, Responsibility is a sex education curriculum that fully meets the National Sexuality Education Standards and seeks to address both the functional knowledge related to sexuality and the specific skills necessary to adopt healthy behaviors.

• AMAZE harnesses the power of digital media to provide young adolescents around the globe with medically accurate, age-appropriate, affirming, and honest sex education they can access directly online—regardless of where they live or what school they attend.

• SCARLETEEN provides inclusive, comprehensive, and supportive sexuality and relationship information for teens and emerging adults.

• Every Body Curious is an entertaining and educational YouTube series about sexuality and healthy relationships for youth, ages 9-12. Each episode features two expert hosts, Nadine and Eva, leading a respectful and authentic dialogue on sexual health, and guiding participants through fun and thought-provoking activities about specific topics.

• O.school is a non-judgmental resource for sexuality and dating for folks 18+. They help people build sexual confidence through medically-accurate videos, articles and live streams. They work with a community of gynecologists, dating coaches, sex educators and therapists who cover a wide range of topics including health, consent, gender, sexuality, dating, sex after trauma, sex and disability, and more.

• Sex Positive Families provides parents and caring adults with the education, resources, and support to raise sexually healthy children using a shame-free, comprehensive, and pleasure-positive approach.

• Our Whole Lives: Lifespan Sexuality Education provides accurate, developmentally appropriate information about a range of topics, including relationships, gender identity, sexual orientation, sexual health, and cultural influences on sexuality.

• SIECUS Sex Ed for Social Change’s homeschool-style sex ed resource list

• My Kid Is Gay is a first-of-its-kind digital presence, inclusive of videos, advice, and resources, dedicated exclusively toward helping parents understand their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual children. My Kid Is Gay sources voices from across the world to help answer the many questions that parents (and family members, and even teachers!) have about the LGBTQIA young people in their life, including advice from parents, youth, and experts on a variety of topics related to sexuality and gender identity.

Books

• The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens by Stephanie Brill & Lisa Kenney

• A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson

• A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G. & J.R. Zuckerberg

• The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes by Diane Ehrensaft, PhD & Norman Spack, MD

• The Gay and Lesbian Guide to College Life: A Comprehensive Resource of LGBT Students and Their Allies by John Baez, Jennifer Howd, & Rachel Pepper

• The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students by Shane Windmeyer

• Mom, I Need to be a Girl by Just Evelyn

• GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens by Kelly Huegel

• Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing about Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities by David Levithan & Billy Merrell

• OutLaw: What LGBT Youth Should Know by Lisa Keen

• Transgender Rights by Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, & Shannon Price Minter

Texts

• National Resources for LGBTQ Youth

• ID Please: Quick Guide to Changing Federal Identity Documents

• ID Documents Center

• Heath Coverage Guide

• Ten Things Transgender Persons Should discuss with Their Healthcare Care Provider

• Human Rights Campaign’s Living Openly: Coming Out Guides and Resources

Films

• Frameline Films

  Check out the new line up of films from Frameline Voices offering LGBTQ+ short films that represent experiences unique to LGBTQ+ people & communities made by LGBTQ+ creators.

• Creating Gender Inclusive Schools by The Youth and Gender Media Project & Gender Spectrum

• Just Call Me Kade

• TransGeneration