Legal

Know Your Rights

• Know Your Rights (from Gender Spectrum)
• Know Your Rights: Transgender Youth (Lambda Legal)
• Know Your Rights: A Guide for Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Students (from the ACLU and GLSEN)
• Transgender Student Rights (from GLSEN)
• Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Students’ Rights in California Schools (from the GSA Network)
• Know Your Rights: LGBTQ Teens and Young Adults (from Lambda Legal)
• The Law and LGBTQ Youth (Lambda Legal)
• Transgender Rights (from Lambda Legal)
• Transgender Rights Toolkit (from Lambda Legal)
• Out, Safe & Respected — Your Rights at School (a Lambda Legal toolkit)
• Legal Help Desk (from Lambda Legal)
• What to Do If You’re Bullied (from Lambda Legal)
• Survival Tips for Trans Youth (from Lambda Legal)
• Equality Maps for TLGB Rights (from the Transgender Law Center)
• The School Success and Opportunity Act (AB 1266) Fact Sheet (from the Transgender Law Center)
• Fifteen Expensive Reasons Why Safe Schools Legislation is in Your State’s Best Interest (by the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network)
• Beyond Home and School (from Lambda Legal) — “This section is dedicated to empowering you as well as to educating the adults in your life, such as foster parents, child welfare professionals and juvenile justice professionals.”
• “Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know about Their Legal Rights” (by Lisa Keen)
• “Transgender Rights” (by Paisley Currah et al.)
• Beyond the Binary: A Toolkit for Gender Identity Activism in Schools (from the Transgender Law Center)
• Quick Steps You Can Take to Move Your School Beyond the Binary (from the Transgender Law Center)
• Out Law: What LGBT Youth Should Know About Their Legal Rights (Book)

Resources for transgender clients seeking legal advice and information:

• Transgender Law Center
• National Center for Lesbian Rights (Provides legal help and resources for LGBT community)

Resources for legal professionals working with the transgender community:

• Legal Issues for Transgender People (from Transsexual Road Map)
• A Practitioner’s Guide to California Transgender Law: A Reference Guide for California Lawyers and Advocates (by the Transgender Law Center)

 Organizations and Resources (General)

• National Organizations by Focus Area (from Lambda Legal)
• California Regional Organizations (from Lambda Legal)
• California Safe Schools Coalition
• National Center for Lesbian Rights
• Transgender Law Center
• Transgender Law Center (useful reports and publications)
• Transgender Law and Policy Institute
• Transgender Law and Policy Institute (useful resources)
• Sylvia Rivera Law Project 
• Lambda Legal
• Lambda Legal (En español)
• National Center for Transgender Equality
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
• Gay and Lesbian Advocates & Defenders
• For additional regional organizations and organizations centered outside the U.S., click here.

ID Documents

• “ID Please” (Transgender Law Center’s guide to changing ID documents in California)
• Gender Identity and Identity Documents
• General ID document information (from the Transgender Law Center)
• Changing Names and Gender in Santa Cruz County (from the Cantú Queer Center of the University of California at Santa Cruz)
• Changing Names State-by-State Guide (from Lambda Legal)
• A Guide to Changing California and Federal Identity Documents to Match Your Gender Identity (from the Transgender Law Center)
• Passports (U.S. Department of State)
• Understanding the New Passport Gender Change Policy (from the National Center for Transgender Equality)