LGBTQ STUDENT RESOURCES Provider Databases • RAD Remedy - http://radremedy.org/ This is a resource that connects trans, gender non-conforming, intersex, and queer people to accurate, safe, respectful, and comprehensive care. Trans Resources • MyTransHealth - http://mytranshealth.com/ This is a guided search to make finding access to quality healthcare easier for trans people. • TransEquality - https://transequality.org/, https://transequality.org/know-your-rights/health-care 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. • TransAction Florida - https://www.eqfl.org/transactionfl This is part of Equality Florida. Their goals are to educate Florida's major employers on effective trans inclusion protocol, to advocate for the trans community in a broader and more structured way, and to be an integral part of all public policy that involved trans rights. This website also has the Transgender Resource Guide, which is a directory of quality trans-friendly service providers from across the state. • Southern Comfort Conference This is an annual conference for people who are a part of the trans community and their friends and families. It includes seminars, and social activities for all age groups and for people in many stages of transition. • TranQuility - http://www.fltranq.com/wp/ This is a local group that offers education, support and care for all trans people, their friends, families and allies. Meetings are on the fourth Monday of every month from 7-9 p.m. at HealthStreet. 2401 SW Archer Road, Gainesville. [email protected] • UF Health Youth Gender Program - https://pediatrics.med.ufl.edu/patient-care/hospital- clinics/youth-gender-program/ This is a local program through the UF Health system that offers both resources for gender identity development and gender nonconformity and social and medical transition support for transgender and gender nonconforming youth and their families. • FTMI - http://www.ftmi.org/ FTMI is the longest-running and largest organization for female-to-male individuals. It has resources, ways to communicate with other F-T-M people, and lists of local support groups. Questioning • Am I Gay? A Guide for People Who Question Their Sexual Orientation - https://yoursexualorientation.info/ This is a resource to help in better understanding your own sexual orientation. It is designed by a psychologist who teaches a college course about sexual orientation and who counsels clients who want to clarify their sexual orientation. CREATED ON 6/6/19 10:17:00 AM 1 of 5 LGBTQ STUDENT RESOURCES Policy/Social Justice • Equality Florida - https://www.eqfl.org/ This is a civil rights organization dedicated to securing full equality for Florida’s LGBTQ+ community. They focus on education, grassroots organizing, coalition building, and lobbying in Florida. • Human Rights Campaign - https://www.hrc.org/ This is a national organization that advocates for LGBTQ+ equality and educates the public about LGBTQ+ issues. They have resources for a number of issues that affect the LGBTQ+ community. • Transgender Law Center - https://transgenderlawcenter.org/ Transgender Law Center works to change law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression. • Campus Pride - https://www.campuspride.org/ This a national nonprofit organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a safer college environment for LGBT students. The organization’s objective is to develop necessary resources, programs and services to support LGBTQ+ and ally students on college campuses across the United States. • GLAAD - https://www.glaad.org/ This is a national organization that focuses on media-related initiatives to tackle issues in order to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change regarding LGBTQ+ issues. • GLSEN - https://www.glsen.org/ The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education network (GLSEN) works to improve school climate and champion LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education. They work on a number of initiatives including conducting research, creating developmentally appropriate resources for educators, partnering with decision maKers and organizations, and empowering students. Bisexuality • Bisexual Resource Center - http://biresource.org/ This is a resource for bisexuality information and advocacy. The organization advocates for bisexual visibility and raises awareness about bisexuality throughout the LGBTQ+ and straight communities. • BiNet USA - https://www.binetusa.org/ As America’s oldest advocacy organization for bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer-identified and unlabeled people, BiNet USA facilitates the development of a cohesive networK of independent bisexual and bi-friendly communities; promotes bisexual and bi-inclusive visibility; and collects and distributes educational information regarding sexual orientation and gender identity with an emphasis on bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer (bi+) communities. • Bisexual - Trevor Project Support Center - https://www.thetrevorproject.org/trvr_support_center/bisexual/#sm.000syjKfg3vKctk10af 2b8dkggu7r Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25. CREATED ON 6/6/19 10:17:00 AM 2 of 5 LGBTQ STUDENT RESOURCES • 6 Truths of Bisexuality - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/6-truths-of- bisexuality_b_8373096?guccounter=1 • 8 Questions to Stop Asking Bisexual People - https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/06/stop-asking- bisexuals/ • #ThisIsLuv: A Black Bisexual Manifesto - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/thisisluv-a-black- bisexua_b_6752374?utm_hp_ref=bisexual • Bisexuality 101 USC - https://lgbtrc.usc.edu/files/2015/05/Bisexuality-101.pdf University of Southern California LGBT Resource Center document introducing bisexuality. • Psychology: Facing Ourselves (from “Bi any other name”) - https://lgbtrc.usc.edu/files/2015/05/Psychology-Facing-Ourselves.pdf Asexuality • The Asexual Visibility & Education Network (AVEN) - https://www.asexuality.org/ Hosts the world’s largest online asexual community as well as a large archive of resources on asexuality. AVEN strives to create open, honest discussion about asexuality among sexual and asexual people alike. • Asexual – Trevor Support Center - https://www.thetrevorproject.org/trvr_support_center/asexual/#sm.000syjKfg3vKctk10af2b8dkgg u7r • Asexuality: The ‘X” in a Sexual World - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/asexuality-the-x-in-a- sexual-world_n_3444417?1371476630 Mental Health Practice Standards and Guidelines • World Professional Association for Transgender Health - https://www.wpath.org/ This is an interdisciplinary professional and educational organization devoted to trans health. WPATH also publishes the Standards of Care and Ethical Guidelines, which articulate a professional consensus about the psychiatric, psychological, medical, and surgical management of gender identity disorders, and help professionals understand the parameters within which they may offer assistance to those with these conditions. • Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People - https://www.apa.org/practice/guidelines/transgender.pdf This is a guide from the American Psychological Association that is designed to assist psychologists in the provision of culturally competent, developmentally appropriate, and trans-affirmative psychological practice with trans and gender nonconforming people. • Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients - http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/guidelines.aspx This is a guide from the American Psychological association that provides psychologists with a frame of reference for the treatment of lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients, and basic information and further references in the areas of assessment, intervention, identity, relationships, diversity, education, training, and research. CREATED ON 6/6/19 10:17:00 AM 3 of 5 LGBTQ STUDENT RESOURCES • Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Counseling - http://www.counseling.org/docs/competencies/algbtic_competencies.pdf?sfvrsn=3 This is a guide from the American Counseling Association that is designed to assist counselors who are working with trans clients. These competencies are based on a wellness, resilience, and strength-based approach for working with trans clients. Crisis • Switchboard LGBT+ helpline - https://switchboard.lgbt/ Switchboard offers free and confidential telephone counseling, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and information and referral services to callers who need social services and/or in- person counseling. Switchboard also operates an LGBTQ+ suicide awareness and helpline. • Get Help Now - The Trevor Project - https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help- now/#sm.000syjKfg3vKctk10af2b8dkggu7r A non-judgmental hotline with LBGTQ-sensitive trained counselors you can contact through a call, text, or chat during a mental health crisis and/or suicidal thoughts. • Trans Lifeline - https://www.translifeline.org/ A 24/7 hotline available in the U.S. and Canada