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- HRC Explains Gender-Affirming Care: What is gender-affirming care? In this video HCR breaks down what it is, what it’s not and why it’s life-saving.
- Get the Facts on Gender-Affirming Care: As attacks on the LGBTQ+ community continue to gain steam, it is important to get the facts about gender-affirming care.
- HRC Welcoming Schools Program: HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools is the most comprehensive bias-based bullying prevention program in the nation to provide LGBTQ+ and gender-inclusive professional development training, lesson plans, booklist, and resources specifically designed for educators and youth-serving professionals.
- HRC’s LGBTQ+ Youth Reports: These reports delve into respondents’ well-being, experiences at home, at school, hopes for the future, and other aspects of their daily lives.
- Project THRIVE Partner LGBTQ+-Inclusive Position Statements and Resolutions: To empower and guide more youth-serving professionals to take action around the safety, health, and well-being of LGBTQ+ youth, we have compiled a list of resolutions and position statements from major health, education, and child welfare organizations.
- Why Say Gay? K-3 Lesson Plans and Resources: Check out these Welcoming Schools lesson plans and resources from HRC.
- NEW! K-12 Teachers, Librarians, and Other School Staff: Request a FREE set of LGBTQ+ affirming K-12 books! GLSEN will be sending LGBTQ+ affirming text sets to over 2,200 schools in 30 states in spring 2023. There are four grade-range options: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, or 9-12. LGBTQ+ students at schools with an LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum, which includes LGBTQ+ affirming books, have higher GPAs, are less likely to hear anti-LGBTQ remarks at school, and are less likely to report missing school due to feeling unsafe. Students also have a constitutional right to read these books.
Founded in 2019, GLSEN’s Rainbow Library Program has been featured in School Library Journal, District Administration Magazine, and has won a commendation award from the American Association of School Librarians. Over 4,600 elementary, middle, and high schools have already received Rainbow Library sets. Rainbow Library books are selected by a committee of experienced educators, librarians, and students. These texts are award-winning, grade-aligned, and all received positive reviews from major literary journals. Resources are limited and will be prioritized in part on a first come, first served basis. Head to rainbowlibrary.org today!
- Resources: Whether you’re a student, an educator, or an ally looking to support safer and more inclusive schools, you can have a role in creating change!
- Pronoun Guide: This guide is created to help anyone learn how to use people’s correct pronouns. Everyone in your school community should engage in learning, educating, and advocating for the inclusive use of pronouns for all.
- Erasure and Resilience: The Experiences of LGBTQ+ Students of Color: Erasure and Resilience: The Experiences of LGBTQ+ Students of Color is a series of four research reports that examines the school experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI), Black, Latinx, and Native and Indigenous LGBTQ youth.
- Research and Education Webinars: GLSEN’s education webinars share real-life stories, relevant data, and effective practices around LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools. GLSEN's resources are full of tips and tools to help you create a safe and affirming learning environment for all of your students.
The National Black Justice is America’s leading national civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer+, and same gender loving (LGBTQ+/SGL) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS through coalition building, federal policy change, research, and education.
The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education.
The National Center for Transgender Equality advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people. In the nation’s capital and throughout the country, NCTE works to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice.
The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations. We seek to build the organizational capacity of local LGBT AAPI groups, develop leadership, promote visibility, educate our community, enhance grassroots organizing, expand collaborations, and challenge anti-LGBTQ bias and racism.
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning youth.
TransLash Media is a nonprofit organization and digital community made up of conversation starters, documentarians, artists, technologists, activists, and allies who are committed to supporting trans/non-binary/intersex/two-spirit people through trans stories to save trans lives. We do so without censorship and erasure from mainstream media.
TransLash launched a new investigative, limited-series podcast today called The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality.The Anti-Trans Hate Machine examines—over the course of four episodes—the organizations, people, money, and radical ideology behind the anti-trans, legislative backlash currently underway in over 30 states. A year in the making, TransLash started work on The Anti-Trans Hate Machine in 2020 with a simple question: "who's behind these bills?" To answer it, TransLash put together a team of twelve producers, researchers and fact checkers to find out. This series is the result of their work.
