resources
Illinois Resources:
National:
- QChatSpace
- Illinois Safe Schools Alliance
- PFLAG (Parents, Families, Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
- Youth Outlook: Drop-in Centers for LGBTQ youth ages 12-25 and Parent Support Group, Thrive
- 360 Youth Services: Housing for homeless LGBTQ youth ages 18-21
- Open Door Clinic in Aurora and Elgin
- Planned Parenthood: Provides hormone services for trans people ages 16+
- Community Networks: Professionals Serving LGBTQ+ Youth
- Gender Expansive Youth Network
- Gender and Sex Development Program and Lurie Children’s Hospital
- Howard Brown Health Center
- Transformative Justice Law Project
- The Crib (Night Ministry)
- The Center on Halsted
- Angles Pride Youth Program
- Equality Illinois
- Broadway Youth Center
- TransLife Center at Chicago House
National:
- GLAAD
- National Center for Transgender Equality
- Gender Spectrum
- GLSEN
- It’s Pronounced Metrosexual
- We Happy Trans
- Family Acceptance Project
- Trans Student Educational Resources
- The Trevor Project
- Translifeline.org
- Trans Youth Family Allies (TYFA)
- WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health)
- Forty to None Project
- Human Rights Campaign
- RadRemedy.org (database for trans resources)
- Philadelphia Trans Health Conference (trans-health.org)