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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)

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