TRANSGENDER VISIBILITY RESOURCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES
Local and Statewide Organizations, Support Services
- ACLU Massachusetts https://www.aclu.org/issues/lgbtq-rights
- BAGLY https://www.bagly.org/youth
- Fact Sheet: Gender Affirming Health Care and Young People HHS https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-03/gender-affirming-care-young-people-march-2022.pdf
- Gen Q https://www.communityaction.us/program/lgbtqia-supports/
- GLAD (LGBT Legald Advocates and Defenders) https://www.glad.org/
- GLSEN (students rights) https://www.glsen.org/chapter/massachusetts
- Greater Boston PFLAG https://www.gbpflag.org/
- Mass Commission on LGBTQ youth https://www.mass.gov/orgs/massachusetts-commission-on-lgbtq-youth
- MassEquality https://massequality.org/
- Mass Trans Political Caucus https://www.masstpc.org/
- Out Now https://www.outnowyouth.org/our-story
- PFLAG Franklin-Hampshire Chapter https://www.fhcpflag.org/home
- Rainbow Coffee Hour in Amherst https://www.rainbowcoffeehouramherst.com/
- Rainbow Elders https://lifepathma.org/events-workshops/rainbow-elders-events/
- Tapestry Health (gender affirming health care) https://www.tapestryhealth.org
- Translate Gender https://www.translategender.org/
- Transhealth https://transhealth.org/
- UMass Amherst Stonewall Center https://www.umass.edu/stonewall/
- UMass Amherst Stonewall center resource listing: https://www.umass.edu/stonewall/resources/local-lgbtqia-support-groups
- UMass Amherst Stonewall Center Local LGBTQIA+ Support Groups | The Stonewall Centerhttps://www.umass.edu/stonewall/resources/national-resources/trans
- UMass Amherst Stonewall Center Transgender Support Resources
https://www.umass.edu/stonewall/trans-resources - Young People Support Services The Trevor Project (suicide prevention) https://www.thetrevorproject.org
Want to suggest additional resources? Let us know, write to: mindy.domb@mahouse.gov.
Reading Lists
AUTHENTIC SELVES: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families
Photographs by Robin Rayne, Gigi Kaeser, Jill Meyers, and others. Interviews by Peggy Gillespie, with Family Diversity Projects
PFLAG reading list for adults
https://pflag.org/resource/transgender-reading-list-for-adults/]
Trans and Non Binary Reads, New York Public Library
https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/trans-reads/adults
Trans Classics, Chicago Public Library https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/204842963/2139011249
PFLAG Transgender Reding List for Children
https://pflag.org/resource/transgender-reading-list-for-children/
Transgender Awareness, Pen America
https://pen.org/transgender-awareness-week-reading-list
Recommended Reading from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health
https://www.wpath.org/resources/recommended-reading
Trans and Nonbinary Reads for Teens from the New York Public Library
https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/trans-reads/teens