Resources

Below you will find resources that may help support you directly or help if you are a supportive adult or professional. These are some of the resources that I’ve found most helpful or find I myself coming back to and sharing with others most often.

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*Please note that all resources on this page have been extensively vetted and researched by Unicorn Solutions. If you have a resource you’d like to add, we cannot guarantee that it will fall under our area of expertise or that we’ll have the ability to review it.

For Youth

• Free to Be Me: An LGBTQ+ Journal of Love, Pride, and Finding Your Inner Rainbow

• Trevor Project (Resources & Crisis Hotline)Trevor Project (Crisis Hotline & Resources)

• Trans Lifeline (Crisis Line & Resources)

• The Black Foster Youth Handbook by Ángela Quijada-Banks

• Resource for Youth In Transition (Foster Care focused)

• Beyond Magenta, Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out, by Susan Kuklin

For parents

• Stand with Trans - Ally Parents (a resource network for youth and for parents supporting their trans youth)

• Gender & Sexuality for Beginners

• The Transgender Child: Revised & Updated Edition: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Nonbinary Children by Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper

• The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens by Stephanie Brill and Lisa Kenney

• U.S. Dept. of Education Resources for LGBTQ+ Students

For Nonprofits, Businesses & Organizations

• A Clinician’s Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients

• Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace - Transgender and Gender-Diverse Discrimination by Alison Ash Fogarty PhD, and Lily Zheng

• Belonging at Work - Everyday Actions You Can Take to Cultivate An Inclusive Organization by Rhodes Perry, MPA

• Social Work Practice With Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth, Third Edition

• Counseling Transgender and Non-Binary Youth, The Essential Guide by Irwin Krieger

For Individuals

• A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson

• Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

• decolonizing trans/gender 101 by b. binaohan

• Continuum by Chella Man

• Mutual Aid, Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the next) by Dean Spade

• DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right by Lily Zheng

• Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) by Amy Gallo

• The Myth of Closure, Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change by Pauline Boss