Articles and fact sheets
Services Outside of the Box: Helping transgender clients navigate sex-segregated services
A listing of the types of healing services that are often sex-segregated and why, plus concrete advice on how to think about alternatives. Written for helping professionals, it may help survivors come up with options on their own.
http://forge-forward.org/wp-content/docs/services-outside_the_box_2011-03-FL.pdf
Keeping Yourself Safe: Anti-trans violence awareness and prevention
A quick, one page reference geared towards trans people.
http://www.forge-forward.org/docs/KeepingYourselfSafe.pdf
Quick tips: Trans Inclusion (A Guide for Providers)
A one page, quick reminder sheet – great for bulletin boards.
http://www.forge-forward.org/docs/quicktips_providers.pdf
Gender Neutral Pronoun Conjugation Chart
A quick reference guide to commonly used gender neutral pronouns.
http://www.forge-forward.org/docs/gender_neutral_pronouns.pdf
Taking It on the Chin: New Fast Facts about Violence Against Transgender People
A 2-page summary of relevant violence statistics from “Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey” by National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
http://forge-forward.org/wp-content/docs/fast-facts-violence.pdf
Criminal Justice? New Fast Facts about Transgender People, Police, and Incarceration
A 1-page summary of relevant statistics about police and incarceration from “Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey” by National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. http://forge-forward.org/wp-content/docs/fast-facts-police.pdf
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A Key concept: The Terms Paradox
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Websites referenced:
Family Acceptance Project
http://familyproject.sfsu.edu/home
Trans-youth-specific resources
http://www.imatyfa.org/
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Two interesting brochures re: trans suicide
http://www.masstpc.org/publications/Community_Suicide_Brochure.pdf
http://www.masstpc.org/publications/Provider_Suicide_Brochure_final.pdf
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Posters / images / things to hang up.
Having images, posters and other materials on “display” can be useful in generating conversation, dispelling myths, creating connections, and reducing misunderstanding/prejudice. Here are just a small sample of items that may help initiate conversation.
Jay Sennett is an author and low-tech (political) cartoonist. Nearly any of his cartoons or posters would make for interesting conversation.
http://jaysennett.com/the-poster-series/
http://jaysennett.com/transgender-cartoons/
In February 2011, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) released the largest‐ever survey of transgender and gender non‐conforming people, Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (available at http://transequality.org/PDFs/NTDS_Report.pdf). FORGE has been compiling data from their >200 page report into “bite size” pieces. Here are the latest compilations:
