SUICIDE PREVENTION

• The Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386 

• The Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860

• National Suicide Prevention LIfeline: 800-273-8255 

• Cottonwood Springs: 913-353-3000 

• Research Psychiatric Center: 844-207-4511 

• KC Character Development's Safety Plan

• Texas Tech's Real-Time Research for Suicide Prevention in Transgender and Gender Diverse People

NAVIGATION

• Suicide Prevention

• Kansas City Resources

• Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy Providers

• LGBTQ2IA+ Heath

• Resources for Parents/Youth

• Queer Voices

• Queer Relationships

• Gender Identity Hub

• Black Lives Matter & Social Justice

KANSAS CITY RESOURCES

• KC Center for Inclusion

• Lion House (Housing Assistance)

• Our Spot KC

• Kansas City Anti-Violence Project (KCAVP)

• Kansas City Public Library: Resources for LGBTQIA Community Members

• Stephanie Mott, BSW & Marcia Epstein, LMSW: Transgender Resources

GENDER AFFIRMING HORMONE THERAPY PROVIDERS

• Please email me for access to the full list

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If you are a provider offering Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy following the WPATH Standards of Care and would like to be added to the public list for free, please email us at kccharacterdevelopment@gmail.com

LGBTQ2IA+ HEALTH RESOURCES/RESEARCH

• WPATH Standards of Care 

• Mayo Clinic: Feminizing Hormone Therapy, Benefits & Risks

• Mayo Clinic: Masculinizing Hormone Therapy, Benefits & Risks

• Callen-Lorde Trans Health Resources

• Fenway Clinic Trans Health Resources

• National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center: Learning Resources

• AMA Journal of Ethics: Informed Consent in the Medical Care of Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Patients

• A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care

• APA's Cultural Humility: Engaging Diverse Identities in Therapy (Intro PDF)

RESOURCES FOR PARENTS/YOUTH

• Gender Spectrum: Parenting Gender-Expansive Children Resources

• Gender Spectrum: Learn & Connect for Youth

• Your Adult Child Just Came Out As Nonbinary, Now What?

• Dana Hall School: LGBTQ Reading List

• HRC's Supporting & Caring for Transgender Children

QUEER VOICES

• Queerly Misunderstood

• All My Relations Podcast: "Indigiqueer"

• Stephen Donnan-Dalzell's "Being a Nonbinary Bear in a Toxic Masculine Space"

• Andy Marra's "How Finding My Korean Mother Gave Me The Courage to Transition"

• Sam Sharpe's "I'm Tired of Apologizing for My Intersex Trans Body"

• Lawrence Gullo's "The Trans Body is a Work of Art"

• Felicia Fitzpatrick's "Navigating My Biracial, Bisexual Identities Is a Lot Like Physics (Stay With Me Here)"

• Ashleigh-Rae Thomas: "Coming to Terms w/my Asexuality as a Black, Nonbinary Lesbian"

• Transgender Film Center (Funding Opportunities for Trans Filmmakers)

• Markus Harwood-Jones: "Coming Out as Cis" Satirical Pamphlet

• Would You Trade In Your Gender for $10 Million?

QUEER RELATIONSHIPS

• How to Introduce Your Nonbinary Partner to Cis People

• AutoStraddle's "Sexapalooza" (Sexual Partners Workbook)

• "Our Marriage Looks Straight, We're Not"

• Traversing Gender: Resources to Support & Navigate Relationships

• NPR's Invisiblia: "Friends with Benefits"

• All My Relations Podcast: "Decolonizing Sex"

GENDER IDENTITY RESOURCE HUB

• NPR's Guide to Pronouns

• Flying Gender Unicorn

• Duchess Pride's Free Binder Program

• Jim Collin's Foundation: Funding for Gender Affirming Surgeries

• Gender Bands: Funding for Top Surgery

• National Center for Transgender Equality: Kansas ID Documents Center (Name, Gender Marker Change)

• National Center for Transgender Equality: Getting your Healthcare Covered (A Guide for Trans People)

• WPATH General Resources (Legal, Name Change, Health Care, Housing, Theory & Education)

• Transgender Law Center: Health Resources

• Transgender Law Center: How to Appeal Your Health Care Denial

• PFLAG: Transgender Reading List for Adults

• Center for Transgender Health: Transgender & Gender Fluid Reading List

• Brown University LGBTQ Center: Queer Theory Reading List

BLACK LIVES MATTER & SOCIAL JUSTICE RESOURCES/RESEARCH

• The BLM Guide

• Radical in Progress

• Map the Power: Research for the Resistance

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• Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing The Ally Industrial Complex

• When Racism Triggers Emotional Reactivity

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• Powell's Books: Black Lives Matter Recommended Reading

• Skokie Public Library: Black Lives Matter Reading List for Adults

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• First Nations Development Center: Indigenous Essential Reading Directory

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• Clemson Library: Latinx Voices & Readings 

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• New York Public Library: Asian American & Pacific Islander Reading List

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• Ibram X. Kendi & Chicago Public Library's Anti-Racist Reading List

• Powell's Books: Anti-Racist Reading List

Know of a resource or article we don't have listed? Send us an email at kccharacterdevelopment@gmail.com!