Connecting • Embracing • Transforming
Resources for Educators
360 Experience Guides
(From Live Out Loud) These 360 Experience Guides include advice for coping and communicating with non-affirmers, being an ally for LGBTQ+ youth and more.
GSA Club: Your Voice! Your Power! Different Ways to Amplify Your Voice
(From Live Out Loud) Goal: Members will analyze how their voices can be harnessed to cultivate community change by observing how LGBTQ+ cultural influencers utilize their platforms f ...
Learning Resources
(From National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center) This organization has incredible resources surrounding health and wellbeing, be it physical health or mental health. Information regarding LGBTQ+ youth ...
When We Rise
About The Series (From ABC) When We Rise is a docudrama miniseries created by award-winning filmmaker Dustin Lance Black. It examines 45-years of history within the LGBTQ+ battle for civil rights ...
Film: Disclosure
(From Netflix) According to a study from GLAAD, over 80% of Americans don't personally know someone who's transgender. That means most people learn about trans people from the ways they're depicted in ...
Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth: Coming Out
(From Live Out Loud) This guide offers advice to help support LGBTQ+ youth in their coming out process.
GSA Advisor Handbook
(From GSA Network) This handbook is designed for advisors to access resources and tools for setting up, running and sustaining a GSA club.
Starting a GSA
(From GLSEN) This resource aims to support new and established Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) and similar groups that are working to make schools safer and more inclusive for all students.
Transgender Resources
(From GLADD) Access transgender resources, including:Transgender FAQ: Learn more about transgender people and the issues important to themTips for Allies: Learn more about how to be an ally to transge ...
Booklet: OurTrans Loves Ones
(From PFLAG) OurTrans Loves Ones: Question and Answers for Parents, Families and Friends of People who are Transgender and Gender ExpansiveThis guide focuses on providing support for families and frie ...
GSA Club: New Year, Same Great GSA – Establish Club Goals
(From Live Out Loud) Goal: Students will generate achievable goals to guide their GSA Club actions and activities during an upcoming school year.Objective: Students will work together to create a visi ...
Films on Gender
(From PFLAG) While transgender representation has too often tended to range from nonexistent to dismal, this isn’t and hasn’t always been the case. The films listed here include both narrative and doc ...
Transgender Children & Youth, Understanding the Basics
(From HRC) It is important to make distinctions between instances where “kids are being kids” and when they’re asserting things about themselves that are critical to their identity and development -- ...
GSA Club: Gathering Together – Telling Authentic LGBTQ+ Stories
(From Live Out Loud) Goal: Members will establish community amongst their club and further develop their individual levels of LGBTQ+ cultural awareness.Objective: The objective of this ...
GSA Activity Guides
(From Live Out Loud)Guides produced for GSA clubs, on topics including Queer History, Gaining and Maintaining Club Membership, Disability Jus ...
21 YA Books with Trans and Nonbinary Characters
(From Epic Reads)Stories about transgender and nonbinary teenagers are important and necessary in YA fiction, full stop. While there are certainly more books available now about trans and nonbinary te ...
GSA Club: Love Is Love… Food!
(From Live Out Loud) Goal: Club members will enrich their LGBTQ+ cultural awareness as well as cultivate community by learning about how food connects all of us.Objective: Club members will be given t ...
Documentary: Growing Up Trans
(From PBS) Just a generation ago, it was adults, not kids, who changed genders. But today, many children are transitioning, too — at younger and younger ages. Told from the perspective of parents, doc ...
GSA Club: Our Hearts Beat for Heartstopper!
(From Live Out Loud) Goal: Members will enrich their LGBTQ+ cultural awareness and cultivate club community via a group discussion of Heartstopper, a beloved LGBTQ+ young adult graphic novel.Objective ...
Gender Spectrum Resources Library
(From Gender Spectrum)A resource hub for youth, parents, educators, and more that allows you to select the category you'd like to explore - vast information on gender. Access Resource ...