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Transgender, At War and In Love: This short (12 min.) documentary shares the challenges of a transgender military couple, who were previously banned from serving in the military openly.
Inside Out: This documentary takes viewers deep inside the lives of five transgender and gender non-conforming children and their families.
Gender Revolution: Katie Couric explores the rapidly evolving complexities of gender identity through interviews with children, adults, medical professionals, etc.
Transgender Basics: A 20 minute educational film on the concepts of gender and transgender people. Concepts of gender, sexual orientation, identity and gender roles are explored. The film targets service providers and others working with the LGBT community.
We're All Hiding Something: In this touching talk, Ash Beckham offers a fresh approach to empathy and openness. It starts with understanding that everyone, at some point in their life, has experienced hardship. The only way out, says Beckham, is to open the door and step out of your closet.
I Am: Trans People Speak: Fenway Health's contribution to the "I Am: Trans People Speak" campaign, which raises awareness of the diversity across the transgender community.
An Introduction to Transgender People: An introduction to one of the 1.4 million transgender people living in the United States.
No Dumb Questions: NO DUMB QUESTIONS is a lighthearted and poignant documentary that profiles three sisters, ages 6, 9, and 11, struggling to understand why and how their Uncle Bill is becoming a woman.
Hey Doc, Some Boys are Born Girls: Gender isn't just between our legs. It's also between our ears. So, what happens when how we look on the outside clashes with how we feel on the inside? Do we settle? Do we change? And at the end of the day should gender really be as big a deal as society wants us think it is? In this talk Decker Moss explores these issues and more, as he struggled through not only one but two major gender-related transitions in his life.
A Mormon Mom's Story of Unconditional Love for Her Transgender Son: From Equality Utah, Transgender Lives in the Beehive State.
Be You- Be With Us: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is changing its name and upping its game to tear down any remaining barriers to full freedom, justice and equality for LBGTQ people. Their new name is National LGBTQ Task Force, their tagline is “Be you,” and vision is a society that values and respects the diversity of human expression and achieves freedom for all.
A Day in The Life of LGBTQ Teens: Teens who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning face many challenges, especially in schools. Will you stand up for LGBTQ students who are not getting the support they need to become healthy adults?
In The News
Life is hard for LGBTQ kids everywhere, but particularly in the South. Amelia Hess visits four organizations — from Texas to North Carolina — that fight with stubborn, Southern ferocity to help LGBTQ kids lead productive, happy lives.
One Colorado school district has become a model in instilling acceptance and understanding for transgender youth. Boulder’s approach attracted 15-year-old Shannon Axe and her parents, and word is spreading.
A new mentoring program for LGBT students will launch at Lincoln Park High School—the brainchild of the school's dean of students, who happens to be a straight, married woman.
For those taking hormones, changing their names and feeling socially isolated, posting and watching videos lets them feel that they're not alone
A child's struggle to figure out who he was called everything this mom believed into question. With her strong faith and lots of soul-searching, the answers finally became clear.
Jackie is one of a small but growing number of children who are growing up as the opposite of their biological sex. It's called transgender...
With support of family and classmates, Cherokee High School junior Matt Dawkins finally feels comfortable in his skin.
Meet 9-year-old Q Daily, who recently finished third grade at the Brooklyn New School in New York City. Q, who was born a girl, just spent his first full school year as a boy. And to him, that's liberating. Really, he explains, it's everything: "It feels like — instead of a dead flower — a growing flower."
The Fords say that the debate about transgender children using the bathrooms of their choice isn’t really about bathrooms at all. They say it’s a debate about discrimination. This is their story.
"He had already decided. He didn’t think about that anymore. And he — she — never looked back. She grew out her hair. She stopped telling people she was a boy in a skirt and started being a girl in a skirt instead.
And we, as a family, decided to be open and honest about it, too, celebrating her story instead of hiding it."
She thought she had a girl. Then she thought she had a tomboy. But now she knows: she has a son.
As part of a series of editorials about transgender experiences, the New York Times is featuring personal stories that reflect the strength, diversity and challenges of the transgender community.
Resources include articles, book chapters, peer-reviewed academic journals, practitioner publications and books from GLSEN's research staff. Articles and book chapters take an in-depth look at a variety of LGBT topics in K-12 education.
Raising Ryland: Hillary and Jeff Whittington's video chronicling their five-year-old son Ryland’s transition from girl to boy.
Sexuality and Gender 101: Michigan State University's LBGT Resource Center gives us a lesson on sexuality and gender.
What Does It Mean to Be Genderfluid: GLSEN's National Student Council Member Miguel talks about what it means to be genderfluid.