RESOURCES
We know how difficult it can sometimes be to find information, resources, and guidance to support and empower transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender-expansive youth. We have compiled a list that is non-exhaustive but full of some great community resources, toolkits, reading guides, and other support groups that may be helpful.
If you would like more specific resources, please contact us. We’re happy to help answer questions and connect you, specifically to medical and health professionals vetted by TGNC folx and shared to be affirming, supportive, and provide competent, quality care.
Transformations provides social, educational, and peer support, but we are not a clinic or therapy group. However, we offer a variety of excellent community-vetted resources.
If you’re in imminent danger, please refer to the emergency hotlines we provide below or call 911.
A PATH OF ROSES
Some may wonder why a nonprofit produced a song, music video, and toolkit. Our experience has taught us that many of our sisters, trans women of color, younger girls, and sex workers connect through innovative online social media communication.
For many of us, these tools were crucial in learning about our transition, especially when access to other trans women was limited or gender-affirming care was not readily available in our areas.
FEDERAL & STATE POLICIES
UPDATED U.S. POLICY ON TITLE IX AFFECTING TRANS ATHLETES
From WhiteHouse.gov, updated April 11, 2023
“On his first day in office, President Biden directed federal agencies to strengthen non-discrimination protections for LGBTQI+ Americans. In March, 2021 he directed the Department of Education to review and revise its Title IX regulations to strengthen protections for LGBTQI+ students. To implement that directive, last June the Department of Education released their proposed regulations to protect LGBTQI+ students from discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.
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Building on those proposed Title IX rules, the Department of Education released proposed changes to its Title IX regulations on athletics participation last week. The proposed rule would protect transgender students from discrimination in sports teams. It would establish that laws and policies categorizing transgender students from participating in school sports programs consistent with their gender identity violate Title IX. The proposed rule would provide schools with a framework for developing eligibility criteria that protect students from being denied equal athletic opportunity while giving schools the flexibility to develop their participation policies to address competitive fairness. The proposed rule would also require schools to minimize any harm to transgender students whose ability to compete consistently with their gender identity would be limited or denied by such policies. The proposed rule will be open for public comment and input for 30 days.
Since day one, the Biden-Harris Administration has strengthened protections and services for transgender Americans. Click here to learn more about the Administration’s historical work to advance equality for transgender Americans.
TRANS TECH SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
TransTech is an incubator for LGBTQ Talent with a focus on economically empowering the T, transgender people, in our community. TransTech is a co-working, co-learning community dedicated to empowering trans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer people and allies with practical, career-ready skills. TransTech also hosts an annual summit that helps connect trans folks with the tech industry and digital world.
HOTLINES
Trevor Project offers free, confidential, and secure instant messaging for LGBTQ youth in crisis or suicidal. You can call them at (866) 488-7386 or visit them at trevorproject.org
Youth Street Outreach Services (SOS)
Youth Street Outreach Services (SOS) is available throughout the Kansas City area and provided through the partnership of reStart, Synergy Services, and Drumm Farm agencies. SOS provides community-based assistance for youth ages 12-22 who are experiencing homelessness. SOS can help youth access shelters, housing, medical care, and other basic needs. Youth can make an appointment with Youth SOS by calling (816) 204-6747.
Trans Lifeline
US: (877) 565-8860
Canada: (877) 330-6366
Trans Lifeline is a national trans-led organization dedicated to improving the quality of trans lives by responding to the critical needs of our community with direct service, material support, advocacy, and education. Our lifeline is a peer support service run by trans people for trans and questioning callers. Our operators are located all over the U.S. and Canada and are all trans-identified.
The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline
The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse. Serving the U.S. and Canada, the hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with professional crisis counselors who—through interpreters—provide assistance in over 170 languages. The hotline offers crisis intervention, information, and referrals to thousands of emergency, social service, and support resources. All calls are confidential. (1-800) 4-A-Child or (1-800) 422-4453
OTHER RESOURCES
Trans Latin@ Coalition
We are an organization formed by Trans Latin@ leaders who have come together in 2009 to organize and advocate for the needs of Trans Latin@s who are immigrants and reside in the US.
Black Trans Advocacy Coalition
Our mission is to improve the black trans human experience by overcoming violence and injustice in the world through the power, value, and love of all people.
LGBTQ Commission of Kansas City
The Kansas City LGBTQ Commission will champion LGBTQ+ matters and recommend legislation, policies, programs, procedures or administrative actions that advance social, economic and political equality for the Kansas City LGBTQ+ community.
Kansas City Pride Community Alliance
The mission of the Kansas City P.R.I.D.E. Community Alliance is to provide educational opportunities, support, social activities, and advocacy to enrich the lives of LGBTQ+ people in an inclusive environment for all.
Zeke's Freedom Foundation
Zeke's Freedom Foundation was developed to create spaces that facilitate Black love, healing, and joy with the purpose of uplifting our community and centering our activism and advocacy around Black Queer and Trans individuals and communities.
Whose Security Is It Anyway? A Toolkit to Address Institutional Violence in Nonprofit Organizations by Lara Brooks & Miriame Kaba
The non-profit industrial complex increasingly governs the lives of marginalized young people who institutions like schools, hospitals, detention centers, and correctional facilities criminalize. Young people in group homes, at drop-in centers, in homeless shelters, and recreational facilities are finding highly securitized spaces that are quick to punish and expel them. Our current social context is characterized by heightened racialized surveillance and increasing state violence particularly against people of color. Institutional violence within community centers, healthcare organizations, and social services, in concert with the “helping” industry’s increasing collusion with and reliance on law enforcement, fuels the prison pipeline.
GRANTS & COMMUNITY FUNDING
Trans Justice Funding Project
The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative founded in 2012 to support grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people in the United States, including U.S. territories. We make grants annually by bringing together a panel of six trans justice activists nationwide to carefully review every application we receive. We center the leadership of trans people organizing around their experiences with racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration, and other intersecting oppressions. Every penny we raise goes to our grantees with no restrictions and no strings attached because we truly believe in trans leadership.
TRANScend Community Impact Fund for Black and Brown TGNC Organizations
Supported by Gilead Sciences, the Destination Tomorrow TRANScend Community Impact Fund will address the disproportionate impact of HIV within Transgender communities with a specific focus on supporting grassroots organizations. The program will be national in scope and largely prioritize organizations led by or primarily serving Trans communities including grassroots initiatives. The program will prioritize organizations serving those areas that are disproportionately impacted by HIV, including southern regions of the United States.
Rocket Grant from Charlotte Street Foundation
Rocket Grants award up to $6,000 to individuals and groups of artists for projects outside of established institutions. Artists are encouraged to address the community at large to address the arts community or to choose a smaller, targeted audience. Rocket Grants will also support proposals from artists or groups interested in expanding their studio practice in new ways and developing new audiences. Awards are provided to artists within an 80-mile radius of metropolitan Kansas City.
Third Wave Mobilize Power Fund
Third Wave launched this fund because powerful movements need the ability to respond to and heal from immediate threats and opportunities with flexible and responsive funding opportunities. Organizations do not need a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status or a fiscal sponsor to receive funding.
LEARNING RESOURCES
SURJ KC
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The racial equality chapter of a national SURJ network, for people who identify as white to engage with each other on how to be allies and engage in collective action...
PFLAG KC
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Provides a support system to loved ones of LGBT people to accept and support LGBT people.
Kansas City Center for Inclusion
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For all ages. On site therapist, lending library, support groups, trans women support group, black trans men group, LGBTQ parent groups, HIMM project and HIV testing. Drop-in center 4-8pm Mon-Thur, 1-5pm Sat-Sun.
GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network)
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The Kansas City chapter provides education for teachers, students, and the public about the damaging effects of homophobia and transphobia on youth and adults.
ACLU-MO Transgender Education & Advocacy Program (TEAP)
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TEAP in Missouri is raising awareness about the challenges faced by the transgender community and challenge barriers to equality in our state. Reach out to Jay-Marie HIll to learn...
The Transgender Education Foundation: STEM Scholarship
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The Transgender Education Foundation Stem Scholarship supports trans students' studies and transition-related expenses, like hormone replacement therapy copay, name change documentation, and gender-affirming clothing. Scholarships typically are around $450.
KCAVP (Kansas City Anti-Violence Project)
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LGBTQ Youth Department, providing direct advocacy and case management, youth empowerment and violence prevention workshops.
LGBT-Affirmative Therapist Guild of KC
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Counseling and mental health services directory of inclusive health and wellness professionals.
Gender Pathways Services
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Provides interdisciplinary, family-centered services for TGNC youth. Our services are aimed at supporting the physical, mental and social health of patients and their families.
KC Care Clinic
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The largest low-cost health clinic in Kansas City, promotes health and wellness services, including testing and STI/STD treatment, to the LGBTQ and HIV+ communities.
Planned Parenthood: Kansas & Mid-Missouri
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Wellness and sexual and reproductive health care provider in KC area, including trans-inclusive clinics.
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