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Gender, Identity & Sexuality Resources

Develop greater gender literacy including understanding gender and its fluidity, gender identity and expression, sexuality, and fostering healthy relationships, LGBTQ+ resources for families and teens, support for families with gender non-conforming children, and more.

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Understanding Transgender People, Gender Identity and Gender Expression [downloadable]

Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth. Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of... Read more >>

Characteristics of Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships

Respect for both oneself and others is a key characteristic of healthy relationships. In contrast, in unhealthy relationships, one partner tries to exert control and power over the other physically, sexually, and/or emotionally. Healthy Relationships Healthy relationships share certain characteristics... Read more >>

Digital Mental Health and Identity Affirmation Tool for LGBTQ+ Youth [website]

Hopelab, in collaboration with CenterLink, and It Gets Better Project, created imi, a free, digital, research-backed, mental health and identity affirmation tool. Read more >>

Trans Youth Equality Foundation [web resource]

The Trans Youth Equality Foundation provides education, advocacy and support for transgender, nonbinary and gender non-conforming children and youth and their families. Read more >>

Gender-Diverse & Transgender Children

Research suggests that gender is something we are born with; it can't be changed by any interventions. It is critically important that children feel loved and accepted for who they are. Read more >>

The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes

The Gender Creative Child guides parents and professionals through the rapidly changing cultural, medical, and legal landscape of gender and identity. Read more >>
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