Gender Identity

Organizations

  • Trans Families has several special focus national Zoom meetings for parents, including those with kids who are non-binary; both trans and neuro-diverse; in elementary school or younger; in middle school; and those whose kids are adults. There are also online groups for kids of various ages, including one for 8-10 year olds.
  • Trans Families of Santa Cruz County and Silicon Valley has an online meeting for parents of pre-teen and younger children.
  • Trans Family Support Services, has an online Parent Circle for Parents of Trans Little ones (ages 3-10); and groups for parents of transgender adults, teens and pre-teens, non-binary kids, and dual spectrum kids.
  • TransYouth Family Allies (TYFA) is for those who “will enthusiastically nurture, support, respect and validate a trans, gender variant or gender questioning youth’s inherent right to self-identify and self-express, regardless of their age or where on the gender continuum that expression may fall, or more importantly, may lead.”  The website has resources and reading suggestions for parents, youth, and educators.
  • National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) provides introductory material as well as a review of issues, rights, and some self-help guides.
  • SEE ALSO Billy de Frank, San Mateo Pride Center, and Outlet described below.

A book list and PFLAG publications can be found under Education.

Health

  • The UCSF Child and Adolescent Gender Center (CAGC) offers comprehensive medical and psychological care, as well as advocacy and legal support, to transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse children and adolescents, age 3 to 17.  There is a clinic in San Mateo.
  • Stanford’s Pediatric and Adolescent Gender Clinic, located in Sunnyvale, serves children, adolescents, and young adults.
  • The UCSF Gender Affirming Health Program is a multi-disciplinary program  for transgender and non-binary adults.
  • Lyon-Martin Community Health Services in San Francisco provides gender affirming care using the informed consent model.
  • Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (the PP chapter for our region) offers gender affirming hormones for those 18+ and for ages 16-17 with parental consent.
  • The Gender Health Center associated with Santa Clara Valley Medical Center offers care, support and referrals for all ages.
  • The Gender Clinic at the Valley Homeless Healthcare Program in East San Jose provides care for people experiencing homelessness, and has medical walk-in visits on Monday mornings.
  • The Gender Affirming Care Clinic (GACC) provides outpatient behavioral health services to transgender and gender diverse folks age 5 to adult in Santa Clara County who are on Medi-Cal or uninsured. The GACC says it “strives to support folks with gender exploration and congruence, as well as cultivating gender joy.”

Legal – Name and/or Gender Marker Change

LGBTQ+

Organizations

  • San Jose: Billy de Frank LGBTQ+ Community Center has many discussion groups.
  • San Mateo County Pride Center has many programs and resources for all ages.
  • San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties: Outlet has various facilitated peer support groups spanning ages 10-25 in San Mateo, Redwood City, and Mountain View. It also offers therapy groups for youth and for parents.
  • LGBTQ Youth Space on N. First St. in San Jose is for LGBTQ and ally youth and young adults age 13-25 living in Santa Clara County. They also offer free counseling for those on Medi-Cal.
  • Coast Pride in Half Moon Bay has drop-in groups for youth.
  • Oakland LGBTQ Community Center has a large variety of support groups and services.
  • San Francisco: LYRIC Center for LGBTIQQ Youth serves mostly low income youth.
  • San Francisco: SF LGBT CENTER
  • Bay.LGBT is a calendar of SF Bay area LGBTQ activities.
  • Bisexual Resource Center
  • Bay Area Bi+ & Pan Network (BABPN)
  • The Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State has many publications related to support for LGBTQ children and adolescents.
  • Campus Pride has a data base of LGBTQ-friendly college campuses.
  • The Trevor Project has mental health support and resources for LGBTQ+ young people.

For Queer Parents and Partners

  • Our Path (formerly known as Straight Spouse Network) for straight partners and partners of trans people.
  • COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere) is for people with one or more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer parent.
  • Our Family Coalition, based in San Francisco and Oakland, provides support for LGBTQ+ parents and prospective parents.

Health

  • Queer Life Space. Queer LifeSpace has a training program for queer therapists and provides affordable mental health and substance abuse services to the LGBTQ+ community, in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
  • Magnet provides sexual health care services in San Francisco. It is a service of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
  • The Shanti Project in the Tenderloin and in the Mission District of San Francisco, has an HIV program and also offers supportive services to LGBTQ older adults.
  • Maitri, in San Francisco, provides residential care for those with debilitating HIV/AIDS or are recovering from gender affirmation surgery.

Legal

  • ACLU of Northern CA on students legal rights
  • AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP) provides free and low cost legal services to people with HIV/AIDS in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Intersectionality

AAPI

Black/African-American

Latino

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