Resource Guides for Queer, Trans, and Gender Expansive People
Learn more about bookmark-worthy resource guides and resource lists for queer, trans, nonbinary, two-spirit, intersex, and gender nonconforming people looking for support with housing, financial assistance, mutual aid, birthing resources, and more.
Last Updated: November 22, 2024
Originally published: February 2, 2024
Resource Bank for Racial Equity
Resource Bank for Racial Equity contains curated resources and tools to help prepare racial equity practitioners, allies, and leaders for the next 4 years and beyond.
The 2024 Elections and Beyond: Fortifying Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Our Ecosystems Toolkit
The 2024 Elections and Beyond: Fortifying Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Our Ecosystems Toolkit from the Building Movement Project offers a series of frameworks and accompanying worksheets for individuals, organizations, and networks to clarify values and identify roles that benefit the broader ecosystem, gather the necessary analysis, partnerships, and tools from our movement “pantry,” consider reasons why organizations may want to engage in rapid response efforts, explore stances such as Defend, Disrupt, Demand, Document, Discuss, Design, and Deepen, and fortify our individual and organizational well-being for the months ahead.
The Solidarity Is Practice Guide is an offering from Building Movement Project and SolidarityIs that enables individuals and organizations to engage in transformative solidarity practice. When we engage in transformative practice we have an opportunity to change ourselves, our communities, systems, institutions, and cultural norms.
Advocates for Trans Equality created a Trans Legal Survival Guide to help trans people prepare for the upcoming administration and beyond. Their 17-page guide clarifies legal terminology, breaks down major topics, and offers practical advice on changing your name and gender marker, setting up power of attorney, protecting your family and parenting decisions, end-of-life planning, fixing your name on your credit report, and more.
Communication & Capacity Support Toolkit
Jasmin Ariel has a Communication & Capacity Support toolkit for folks interested in learning how to practice offering support to your loved ones while also honoring your personal capacity and boundaries.
Interrupting Misogynoir Resource Guide
Dr. Heliana Ramirez published a resource guide about Interrupting MIsogynoir for non-Black folks to learn about misogynoir, how to be in solidarity with Black women, and interrupt oppression without causing harm.
For All Things Digital has a list of resource-based organizations for Black businesses.
PDX Queer / Death Directory is an evolving list of queer death (and grief!) care workers and organizations.
TransSOCIAL has resource directories with a list of food pantries + free showers, trans friendly businesses, guides for trans femmes in early transition, guides for trans masc in early transition, nonbinary guide, name change, trans voting, and TGI guides.
Funding Assistance for Gender-Affirming Care Resource List
Funding Assistance for Gender-Affirming Care Resource List provides nationwide and local funds for transgender and non-binary people needing support with legal name change, hormone affirmation, surgical affirmation, gender affirming clothing, general transition needs, and other financial needs.
Trans Lifeline has a list of resources guides, including abolitionist, disability justice, public assistance, care provider database, virtual wellness directories, and more. They also have a list of community-based crisis support resources.
Gender Justice LA has a working Resource Guide with regularly updated resources for TGI people in response to COVID-19. Resources include health & wellness, food, grants, mutual aid, educational resources, safety, housing, and more. Their guide has a focus on the Los Angeles area but also includes links to organizations doing work throughout the state and country.
Trans Empowerment Project has a national trans resources list with an overview of trans programs, drop-in shelters, emergency/crisis assistance, legal assistance, trans clinics, trans friendly hospitals, specialty care, surgeons, trans funding, and additional forms of support for queer, trans, nonbinary, and two-spirit, and gender-nonconforming people across the country.
The Okra Project has a list of organizations and resources who offer programs and services to trans, gender non-conforming, and non-binary people.
Collective Action for Safe Spaces
Collective Action for Safe Spaces released their COVID Community Care Resources (2023) Guide, an updated COVID resource guide with tangible strategies to help decrease the spread and to enact care for those dealing with current and long COVID.
Beloved Community has a resource list to help Black folks prioritize their mental health, self-care, and overall well-being while navigating tragedy, grief, and rage across the country.
Black Women’s Toxic Job Survivor Suicide Prevention Resource Guide
Heliana Ramirez, PhD, LISW created a Black women’s toxic job survivor suicide prevention resource guide, which includes crisis and warm hotlines, safety plans, workplace abuse support resources, resources to find new jobs and/or build your own business, and more.
SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW
The Essentials: Atlanta Trans Resource Guide was compiled by members of the SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW staff and fellows from the 2022 Leading Initiatives for Trans Equity (LITE) program. This is an ATL specific guide for Trans folks including community support, medical, housing, legal aid, and mental health resources.
The Abolitionist and Disability Justice Coalition
The Abolitionist and Disability Justice Coalition has a resource list of recommended organizing strategies, books, thought pieces, media, date/research articles, and more.
Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings
Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings has a resource guide for queer and trans birthing people.
Youth Empowerment Performance Project
Youth Empowerment Performance Project has a resources packet (updated quarterly) for Black and Brown trans and gender nonconforming youth experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits
Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) has a resource list of food, housing, health, education, mental health, and native heritage tracing resources.
Gender Justice League has a resource guide to support trans and gender expansive people with housing, employment, mutual aid, food access, legal support, mental health, trans-affirming healthcare, and more.
Queer-Oriented Rural Resource Network
Queer-Oriented Rural Resource Network (QORRN) has a national/international resource list to connect LGBTQ+ individuals in rural communities with resources and services.
Muslim Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity
The Muslim Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity (MASGD) compiled a basic resource guide for LGBTQ+ Muslims. Each category provides a link to the organization’s website, a description of what services they provide, and includes annotations that specify if they are geared towards Muslim people of specific descent/identities (e.g. Black, South Asian, South West Asian, or North African) or if they have resources to accommodate our diverse and complex identities and experiences.
THRIVE Lifeline has a resource database with BIPOC, LGBTQS2+, neurodivergent, career, harm reduction, housing, legal, substance abuse, online safety, disability, and additional crisis resources.
Bela Gaytán’s Unemployment Resource List
Bela Gaytán has a living, ever-evolving hub of resources to support individuals who are unemployed.
The Trans Guide has a resource map and collection of resources to find legal, medical, and social support within the U.S.
Transgender Map has a list of transgender resources for trans folks based in in the U.S. and an international resource guide for folks outside of the U.S.
Trans Visionaries Collective compiled a resource list of upcoming name-change clinics, legal resources to support name changes, name change guides, and other resources to support trans and nonbinary folks choosing new names.
The SQSHBook is a queer-centered, community-owned database of 1,200+ resources throughout the St. Louis region and beyond, compiled from various local resource lists and vetting efforts by the St. Louis LGBTQIA+ community and SQSH’s partners.
TransLash Guide to Trans Sex: T4T and Trans-Cis
The TransLash Guide to Trans Sex: T4T and Trans-Cis is a trans-affirming guide to sex with trans people.
Sexuality in Transition has a resource list for sexuality professionals to increase their overall knowledge and awareness about sex and disability of all bodies, genders, sexualities, and sexual lifestyles.
WAKE’s goal for the LGBTQIA+ EOL Guide is to close the gap of information on end of life care for the LGBTQIA+ community, since much of the existing information is directed toward heterosexual couples and nuclear families. In addition, the guide identifies key areas of risk within the legal system for diverse sexual orientations and/or gender identities. With the right information and legal steps in place, one’s identity and wishes can be honored through the end of life and dying processes.
Rainbow Migration helps LGBTQI+ people though asylum and immigration system and has a robust list of other organizations who can help LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum.
Black Trans Foundation compiles a bulk of resources to better support trans women and trans femmes, including numerous ways allies can support trans people in the UK. Additionally, the The UK LGBTQIA+ Mental Health Resources Guide includes services primarily for LGBTIQA+ people and their families in the UK, offering helpful resources and guidance, as well as 1-to-1 counselling and support groups.
The Gender Construction Kit is a guide for gender changes, including a medical guide and resources to support name changes, vocal changes, gender-affirming clothing changes, and more for folks based in the UK.
African Queer Youth Initiative
African Queer Youth Initiative has publications and guides for LGBTQI+ activists in Africa, including templates for resumes and cover letters and a step by step guide to creating sustainable youth-led organizations working on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.
Vancouver Black Therapy and Advocacy Foundation
The Vancouver Black Therapy and Advocacy Foundation has a resource list with crisis, food access, housing, employment, mental health, harm reduction, legal, and Black community support.
Looking for more gender affirming resources? Visit our Q1 resource roundup for an updated list of resources and funding opportunities for Black queer, trans, and nonbinary people.
