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Transgender healthcare is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is an international, multidisciplinary, professional association whose mission is to promote evidence-based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health. One of the main functions of WPATH is to promote the highest standards of health care for TGD people through the Standards of Care (SOC). The SOC was initially developed in 1979 and the last version (SOC-7) was published in 2012. In view of the increasing scientific evidence, WPATH commissioned a new version of the Standards of Care, the SOC-8.
Nobody Needs to Know by Pidgeon Pagonis
Pidgeon Pagonis always felt like their life was a constant attempt to fit in with other girls―a feeling that was only exacerbated when puberty failed to hit. They never understood why…until they uncovered the secret that had haunted their childhood. Bouncing between their Chicago home and the city’s children’s hospital, Pidgeon weathered a series of traumatic surgeries, fabrications, and misdirections. It wasn’t until college that Pidgeon pieced together the puzzle of their identity: they’d been born intersex but raised as a girl, their life shaped by lies that left them physically and mentally scarred. But for Pidgeon, what began as a shameful and traumatic discovery transforms into a painful yet joyous journey of self-love, truth, and healing. Pidgeon’s inspiring memoir is for everyone whose body and spirit defy expectations, a fierce challenge to a system hell-bent on enforcing binary definitions. Ultimately, it’s a celebration of the freedom and empowerment that come from learning the truth about who you are―and living it.
He/She/They: How we Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar
Anti-transgender legislation is being introduced in state governments around the United States in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under attack in sports, healthcare, school curriculum, bathrooms, bars, and nearly every walk of life. He/She/They compassionately addresses fundamental topics, from why being transgender is not a choice and why pronouns are important, to more complex issues including how gender-affirming healthcare can be lifesaving. With a relatable narrative rooted in science, and history, Schuyler helps restore common sense and humanity to a discussion that continues to be divisively coopted and deceptively politicized. He/She/They is more than a book on allyship; it also speaks to trans folks directly, celebrating radical trans joy.
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence. Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials—early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films—Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. In tracing the twinned genealogies of blackness and transness, Snorton follows multiple trajectories, from the medical experiments conducted on enslaved black women by J. Marion Sims, the “father of American gynecology,” to the negation of blackness that makes transnormativity possible. Revealing instances of personal sovereignty among blacks living in the antebellum North that were mapped in terms of “cross dressing” and canonical black literary works that express black men’s access to the “female within,” Black on Both Sides concludes with a reading of the fate of Phillip DeVine, who was murdered alongside Brandon Teena in 1993, a fact omitted from the film Boys Don’t Cry out of narrative convenience. Reconstructing these theoretical and historical trajectories furthers our imaginative capacities to conceive more livable black and trans worlds.
Transgender History by Susan Stryker
Transgender History includes informative sidebars highlighting quotes from major texts and speeches in transgender history and brief biographies of key players, plus excerpts from transgender memoirs and discussion of treatments of transgenderism in popular culture.
TGI Trauma Informed Care Guide
The five principles of trauma informed care as they apply to caring for TGI people.
Report on the Experiences of Latino/a Respondents
The complete report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey
2024 Los Angeles TGI Housing Needs Assessment
Para Mi Punto de Vista / From My Point of View
Results of the 2023 LA County Trans & Nonbinary Survey
A Policy Report on Aging Trans People in Los Angeles
How Many Adults And Youth Identify As Transgender In The United States?
UCLA Williams Institute June 2022Jody L. Herman Andrew R. Flores Kathryn K. O’Neill
Americans' Complex Views on Gender Identity and Transgender Issues
Pew Research Center June 28, 2022 Kim Parker , Juliana Menasce Horowitz and Anna Brown
About 5% of young adults in the U.S. say their gender is different from their sex assigned at birth
Pew Research Center June 7, 2022 Anna Brown
GLAAD Media Institute 2021-2022
2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health
The Trevor Project 2022
2022 Early Insights US Trans Survey
USTS February 2024, Sandy E. James, Jody L. Herman, Laura E. Durso, and Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen
The Mental Health and Well-Being of Latinx LGBTQ Young People
The Trevor Project Oct. 11, 2023
LATINX LGBT Adults In The US LGBT Well-Being at the Intersection of Race
UCLA Williams Institute Sep 2021 Bianca D.M. Wilson Christy Mallory Lauren Bouton Soon Kyu Choi
WE ARE LA! What LGBTQ People Contribute to Los Angeles
UCLA Williams Institute June 2024 Brad Sears Christy Mallory Kerith Conron
COMMUNITIES OF RESILIENCE The Lived Experiences of LGBTQ Adults in Los Angeles County
UCLA Williams Institute
Race and Ethnicity of Adults Who Identify as Transgender in the United States
UCLA Williams Institute October 2016 Andrew R. Flores, Taylor N. T. Brown, Jody L. Herman
LGBT Adult Immigrants in the United States
UCLA Williams Institute February 2021 Shoshana K. Goldberg Kerith J. Conron
Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US
Human Rights Watch 2017
A Changing Paradigm US Medical Provider Discomfort with Intersex Care Practice
Human Rights Watch October 2017
GLAAD 2023
Fact Sheet: LGBT Workers in the Labor Market
American Progress June 1st, 2022, Caroline Medina Lindsay Mahowald Rose Khattar
McKinsey November 10, 2021, By David Baboolall (they/them), Sarah Greenberg (she/her), Maurice Obeid (he/him) , and Jill Zucker (she/her)
Pride Month 2019: More Than One-Third of LGBTQ+ Adults Identify as Having a Disability
Respectability June 28, 2019 Philip Pauli
Biology of Reproduction, Volume 75, Issue 3, 1 September 2006, Pages 370–379 Fernanda C.A. Santos, Rodrigo P. Leite, Ana M.G. Custódio, Karina P. Carvalho, Luiz H. Monteiro-Leal, Adriana B. Santos, Rejane M. Góes, Hernandes F. Carvalho, Sebastião R. Taboga
Essential Terms for TGI Health
Searchable PDF of terms and definitions important for contextualizing and understanding TGI healthcare
Reflection on Gender, Identity, and Gender Equity in Your Life
A worksheet with various questions to guide you through reflection about your own gender identity and unconscious bias around gender
Practices for TGI Inclusive Healthcare
23 Practices for Culturally Competent Care
LA County TGI Serving Community Based Organizations
A directory of Los Angeles based community organizations that provide specific and or inclusive services for the transgender and gender expansive community.
LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Medical Questionnaire
The Queer Trans Project provides a downloadable medical intake form that provides examples of how to normalize and incorporate the SOGIESC framework into intake procedures and data collection.
An Advocate's Guide to Access Gender-Affirming Care in California
Published by The Health Consumer Alliance. Health Consumer Alliance is a statewide partnership of 10 legal services organizations with expertise in access to care advocacy. HCA is also partnered with National Health Law Program, Western Center on Law, and Justice In Aging. They published this not only as a resource but an opportunity for allies to more closely support people seeking gender affirming care in California.
Guide for Updating California Based Identification Documents
The Transgender Law Center has published a comprehensive guide for updating names and sex markers on various identification documents in the state of California. Last revised in October 2024.
Atencion Informada del Trauma para personas TNI
Informacion sobre como aplicar los principios de la atencion informada del trauma para las personas transgenero y no-binarias
Una explicacion sobre la importancia de los pronombres basados en genero y que hacer cuando se comete un error.