Education, Books & Data

Education materials inclusive of the LGBTTQIA+ community, and anybody else navigating the spaces of pregnancy, birth, parenting, and postpartum.

Link: https://linktr.ee/earthside.nz 

A planned series of powerful, short award-winning documentary films that show how ethnically and religiously diverse families learn to support and accept their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) children – informed by the Family Acceptance Project’s groundbreaking research.

Link: https://www.familyacceptanceproject.org/ 

Gender Diversity can help your school provide a supportive, non-discriminatory environment for all students, including gender diverse and transgender children. We help administrators, teachers, and staff gently move from awareness to action in order to create more inclusive learning and social environments.

Gender Diversity can help your organization navigate the complexities that sometimes arise when an employee changes their gender. In a non-confrontational manner, we will walk you through the basics of gender identity and expression, the applicability of these concepts, the ethical and legal considerations and apply them to your specific circumstances and/or workplace.

Gender Diversity offers professional level education and training programs designed to increase the understanding of transgender populations of all ages. Our seminars serve to increase the knowledge of concepts such as gender identity and gender expression and the diverse ways in which these can manifest.

Link: http://genderdiversity.org/

Our goal at the Human Rights Campaign is to ensure that every LGBTQ+ person is free to live their life openly, with their equal rights ensured. We know that goal requires that we keep educating, supporting and inspiring ourselves and each other. In the spirit of that continual growth, we’ve compiled information and advice on a range of topics, including resources from the HRC Foundation. 

Link: https://www.hrc.org/resources 

UCSF’s Center of Excellence for Transgender Health sponsors the biennial National Transgender Health Summit (NTHS). This landmark program presents cutting-edge research, evidence-based educational sessions, and training opportunities across many disciplines.

Link: https://prevention.ucsf.edu/transhealth/education/nths 

In both Whatcom and Skagit counties, youth are able to connect 1:1 in person or remotely with an education and employment coordinator to build a plan that focuses on their individual goals.

For employment goals this can include:​

• Resume building and cover letter writing
• Individual job search and strategies
• Interview preparation and resources
• Paid training opportunities
• Conviction history support
• Community resource referrals in Whatcom (Worksource, Goodwill) or Skagit (Goodwill)

For education goals this can include:

• Education consult and planning
  Connections to Whatcom or Skagit County school districts
• Referrals to GED/HS Diploma or secondary programs in Whatcom (Bellingham Technical College, Whatcom Community College,) or Skagit (Skagit Valley College, Job Corps)

Link: https://www.nwys.org/employment-education

PFLAG Academy Online brings free, monthly learning sessions right to your computer screen. Benefit from PFLAG National’s diverse learning options, informed staff, great guests, and input from other participants…all without leaving home. All you need is a computer (or mobile device) and the drive to lead with love and move equality forward.

Link: https://pflag.org/onlineacademy 

The GLSEN National School Climate Survey* is our flagship report on the school experiences of LGBTQ youth in schools, including the extent of the challenges that they face at school and the school-based resources that support LGBTQ students’ well-being. The survey has consistently indicated that specific school-based supports are related to a safer and more inclusive school climate, including: supportive educators, LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum, inclusive and supportive policies, and supportive student clubs, such as Gay-Straight Alliances or Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSAs).

Link: https://www.glsen.org/research/2019-national-school-climate-survey 

The Gender Wheel is is both a symbol and a theory of gender and body diversity that is decolonized, holistic, and rooted in nature. The Gender Wheel was first created and published by Maya Gonzalez in 2010 in The Gender Now Coloring Book.

Link: http://www.genderwheel.com 

We are a blog created for people of all ages who have questions concerning their gender identity.

Link: https://transgenderteensurvivalguide.com/

The Trans Youth Equality Foundation provides education, advocacy and support for transgender and gender non-conforming children and youth and their families. Our mission is to share information about the unique needs of this community, partnering with families, educators and service providers to help foster a healthy, caring, and safe environment for all transgender children. 

Link: http://www.transyouthequality.org/

Do you suffer from stress and anxiety? Do you get overwhelmed with worry, overthinking things that are out of your control? In this video, I’ll show you how to use ancient yoga techniques to stimulate your parasympathetic nervous system response to help you calm down, relax, and find greater peace and balance in your life. 

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rJvWLN8rtE

A collection of studies and other published articles demonstrating the evidence that affirmative approaches yield happier, healthier, and better adjusted youth, and contradicting the principles of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria”. We believe these to be representative of current thinking and research.

Link: https://www.gdaworkinggroup.com/affirmative-articles 

Delve into poetry, essays, short fiction, photography, paintings, and drawings in the first-ever anthology entirely by autistic people of color, featuring 61 writers and artists from seven countries. The work here represents the lives, politics, and artistic expressions of Black, Brown, Latinx, Indigenous, Mixed-Race, and other racialized and people of color from many autistic communities, often speaking out sharply on issues of marginality, intersectionality, and liberation.

Link: https://autismandrace.com/all-the-weight-of-our-dreams-anthology/ 

Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar in Brooklyn, featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love.

These stories, shiny with whiskey and prairie sunsets, rattling subways and neglected cats, show growing up as a trans girl can be charming, funny, frustrating, or sad, but never will it be predictable.

Link: https://caseyplett.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/a-safe-girl-to-love-casey-plett.pdf 

On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

In Authoring Autism M. Remi Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity—neuroqueerness—rather than an impairment. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the chance to define themselves while also challenging cognitive studies scholarship and its reification of the neurological passivity of autistics.

Link: https://www.dukeupress.edu/authoring-autism 

Autonomous Press is an independent, worker-owned publishing house specializing in books that expand minds and challenge cultural norms.

We publish both fiction and nonfiction in all genres, and we love innovative works that defy traditional genre boundaries.

For more about us, click here. To view our full collection of current titles, click here.

In 2016, a controversial bill was signed in Georgia, banning transgender individuals from using restrooms designated for the sex with which they identify. In the wake of this legislation, Between the (Gender) Lines: The Science of Transgender Identity explored what was known at the time about transgender identity, discussing scientific evidence for its biological bases, as well as the social and psychological ramifications of binary gender classifications.

Link: https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science-transgender-identity/ 

Online tips and guides to binding.

Link: https://fenwayhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/Binding_Resource_Guide.pdf 

Every week we get messages from people that say how their lives have been changed by the books that we publish, how we’ve helped them feel included in a society where difference is all too often frowned upon.

We believe in the importance of promoting diversity, which is why we publish authors who have lived experiences of the topics we cover. So, our books about autism are written by autistic people, just as our books about gender diversity are written by people who identify as gender fluid. Our authors are the experts, and it’s our job to make sure their voices are heard.

Link: https://us.jkp.com/ 

Twenty-five new science fiction and fantasy short stories by transgender writers from theUS, Canada and beyond. Adding to the body of LGBT literature that straddles politics and entertainment,Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers,represents the arrival of a new perspective in genre fiction.

Link: https://caseyplett.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/meanwhile-elsewhere-interior-master.pdf 

META is a unique digital magazine, which brings you the very best of trans and gender queer, news advice and entertainment. Our aim is to connect this community globally and so META is written by trans people, about trans people, for trans people.

Link: https://pocketmags.com/us/meta-magazine 

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity is a book by Steve Silberman that discusses autism and neurodiversity from historic, scientific, and advocacy-based perspectives. Neurotribes was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2015, and has received wide acclaim from both the scientific and the popular press. It was named to a number of “best books of 2015” lists, including The New York Times Book Review and The Guardian.

Currently my first suggestion for both non-autistic people and autistic people for understanding the history of the way the medical/mental health field and the general public thinks about autism, and introduces the neurodiversity perspective as replacement for the “broken” or “missing puzzle piece” perspective on autism. Commercially available in print and audio.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroTribes

Seattle Public Library carries a wide assortment of transgender materials. This list is a sample of non-fiction books available. Some titles are also available as eBooks, downloadable audiobooks, and audiobook on CD.

Link: https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/list/share/138670692_cap_adult/326284071_transgender_non-fiction_books_-_seattle_public_library_(spl)  

Recommended articles, books, and more from Trans Family Support Services.

Link: https://transfamilysos.org/recommended-reading/ 

A guide to safer hormone injection.

Link: https://fenwayhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/TH-109_Update-Hormone-Injection-Guide_6_19_2020_FINAL_pages.pdf 

Scarleteen is an independent, feminist, grassroots sexuality and relationships education media and support organization and website.

We are founded, owned and run by a person and a team who are largely queer, who are women or gender-nonconforming, who are or have come from the working class, who are diverse in their ethnicities, who live with disabilities and who frequently are not or have not been considered generally respectable by people generally concerned with respectability.

Link: https://www.scarleteen.com/

Gender-affirming hormones and some surgeries can make it hard or impossible to get pregnant or to make someone pregnant. Before starting these treatments, some people take steps to make it more likely to have biological children in the future. This is called fertility preservation.

Link: https://www.seattlechildrens.org/globalassets/documents/for-patients-and-families/pfe/pe3359.pdf

Schools In Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 Schools is a first-of-its-kind resource providing a blueprint for safe, supportive and inclusive school environments for transgender youth.

Link: https://www.hrc.org/resources/schools-in-transition-a-guide-for-supporting-transgender-students-in-k-12-s

This guide is designed for anyone who knows a transgender or gender-expansive child, plans to write about children who transition, or simply wants to learn more. It reviews what medical and education experts know about transgender children, explores some myths about gender transition in childhood, and offers suggestions for adults with a transgender child in their life.

Link: https://assets2.hrc.org/files/documents/SupportingCaringforTransChildren.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2_hJhYIdsMnHF_OwjLJ5pluc6NsXpcTSKdPJypBowjcUHHBbFYdNlO_7A 

Provides guidance for professionals working with autistic trans youth and adults and how parents can support their trans autistic children.

Link: https://www.nctsn.org/resources/supporting-transgender-autistic-youth-and-adults-a-guide-for-professionals-and-families 

Tanner scale is a well-accepted rating system to assess maturity. In spinal disorders, it is used to assess sceletal maturity, thus growth potential. So, it is important in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

Link: http://www.scientificspine.com/spine-scores/tanner-scale.html

Here’s a comprehensive list of great books for kids — novels, picture books, workbooks, memoirs and profiles — that deal with transgender and intersex issues, gender non-conformity and sexual orientation as it relates to trans people. 

Link: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-21-best-transgender-b_b_9702762 

A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters…

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness 

“Boys can’t be princesses!” The impetus for The Pineapple Project came out of this moment during play between Mal and Mal’s niece. As a nonbinary person and theater artist, Mal knew that this moment could not go by without recognizing how early in a child’s development, ideas and influences can form around gender. And with years of experience working with LGBTQ youth who struggle with their gender, Mal, Becca, and Renee, felt it was time to create a theater piece that could help broaden the conversation as well as advocate for and validate each child’s individual freedom to be who they are. 

Link: https://www.pineappleproject.org/home 

A resource for the transgender community.

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (TBTS) is written by and for transgender and gender nonconforming people (although we hope that many allies will read it as well!). We have endeavored to make it as radical as its predecessor. Where OBOS challenged the medical establishment’s monopoly on knowledge about women’s bodies, TBTS shares trans health information and implores medical providers to educate themselves about trans bodies. Where the original questioned psychiatry’s condemnation of lesbian identity, we fight the similar treatment of transgender identity. As a psychiatrist, one of my personal goals for activism is to help lead the fight against pathologization of trans identities.

Link: file:///C:/Users/sbond/Downloads/Trans%20bodies,%20trans%20selves%20_%20a%20resource%20for%20the%20transgender%20community%20(%20PDFDrive%20).pdf

Up-close, personal stories of transgender lives at the Seattle Public Library.

Link: https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/list/share/138670692_cap_adult/326288717_transgender_memoirs_amp_biographies_-_seattle_public_library_(spl) 

Trans is an extraordinary documentary feature about men and women, and all the variations in between. It is about the transgender community, perhaps the most misunderstood and mistreated minority in America and around the world. Inspired by the incredible story of Dr. Christine McGinn and her work as a transgender surgeon.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Trans-Erica-Fields/dp/B00KELS160 

HRC began tracking violence against the transgender and gender non-conforming community in 2013. Sadly, 2020 has already seen at least 44 transgender or gender non-conforming people fatally shot or killed by other violent means, the majority of which were Black and Latinx transgender women.

Follow the link to read more.

Link: https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-trans-and-gender-non-conforming-community-in-2020 

A B.C. case raises difficult questions about parental rights and about how young is too young to make medical decisions. The result is a messy ethical and legal tangle.

Link: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/who-gets-to-decide-when-a-14-year-old-wants-to-change-gender