Transgender Resources

Trans Youth: Website created to link trans youth and the people in their lives with current resources.

National Center for Transgender Equality: social justice organization for advancing the equality of transgender people through advocacy, collaboration, empowerment.

New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA). Advocates for freedom of gender identity and expression for all.

Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund. Committed to ending discrimination based upon gender identity and expression and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal services, community organizing and public policy efforts.

Androgyne Online

FTM International

Gender Education & Advocacy

Gendertalk

International Foundation for Gender Education

Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC): Lobbying, education, activism.

PFLAG Transgender Network (TNET)

Trannys Talk Back, produced by students of Harvard's BGLTSA.		  

Robyn and other members of Harvard University's Trans Task Force celebrating the addition of gender identity to the University's nondiscrimination policy at the
Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus Dinner, June 2006.
 
 
Trans-Academics.org: discussions of gender theory & identity. Open to people of all gender identities.
National Transgender Advocacy Organization
Transsexual Women's Resources
Transgender.org
Transgender at Work: addressing workplace issues for the transgendered, focusing on voluntary cooperation between employers and employees.
Transgender Law & Policy Institute
Transgender Law Center: a California-focused civil rights organization advocating for transgnder communities.
TransFamily: Based in Cleveland, OH. support for the families of trans individuals. Info, links, support e-lists.
Trans Youth Family Advocates
Transworkplace: .HR managers, diversity professionals, lawyers, transgender employees andallies are invited to visit the site and to join.

Video Resources

  • List of films focusing on trans and gender diverse people from Trans-Academics.org
  • Boy I Am. About FTM trans experience.
  • Cruel & Unusual. About trans women in prison.
  • Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (About 1966 pre-Stonewall riot in San Francisco.
  • Transgender Basics. Produced by the Gender Identity Project and Media Center. 20 minute video that introduces us to several transgender invididuals and outlines basic concepts, such as the difference between sex, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation.

  • Toilet Training. Addresses the persistent discrimination, harassment, and violence that people who transgress gender norms face in gender segregated bathrooms .
  • Transsexual Menace. Interviews with transsexuals.
  • Envisioning Justice: The Journey of a Transgendered Woman (2008). 32-minute ocumentaryabout the life and work of the New York-based transgendered activist, Pauline Park.
    		•   

    In Boston: BAGLY has weekly meetings for transgendered youth (under 23) on Wednesday nights at 6:00. They can be contacted at 1-800-42-BAGLY or check out their website.

    Articles available on line:

    "A Parent's Dilemma: The Transgender Child"
    "Concerned About Your Child's Gender Behavior"
    "When Steve Becomes Stephanie," Harvard Business Review Case Study
    "Transgender Health: Reconceptualizing Pathology as Wellness"
    (Pauline Park's Trans-Health Conference speech on GID, 4.7.07)