2018 Gender-Expansive Youth Report
This report details the alarming challenges and barriers facing transgender and gender-expansive youth around the country -- and their perseverance in the face of discrimination and harassment.
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LGBTQ+ Youth
Challenges faced by LGBTQ+ youth are changing, but what they always need is support from each other and the adults in their lives.
For HRC's resources for educators, please visit WelcomingSchools.org. To learn about our annual gathering of LGBTQ+ youth-serving professionals, visit TimetoThrive.
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Professional Resources
Latine LGBTQ+ Youth Report
This resource presents data collected from Latine youth, shedding light on their challenges and triumphs encountered while navigating multiple, intersecting identities.
2018 LGBTQ+ Youth Report
HRC Foundation and the University of Connecticut released the largest-of-its-kind survey ever of more than 12,000 LGBTQ+ teenagers across the nation, revealing in distressing detail the persistent challenges so many…
Just As They Are
This resource will help parents recognize when and how conversion therapy is promoted, provides information about the dangers of the practice, and offers guidance to parents regarding practices that promote…
Recursos educativos: La escuela, niños y jóvenes
Encuentre recursos para apoyar a la juventud LGBTQ+ en la escuela y en el hogar
Supporting & Caring for Transgender Children
Supporting & Caring for Transgender Children is a groundbreaking resource that explains how families and healthcare professionals are helping transgender children thrive.
On Our Own: A Survival Guide for Independent LGBTQ+ Youth
This guide is designed to help LGBTQ+ youth who aren't able to rely on their parents or guardians for financial support.
Transgender Children & Youth: Understanding the Basics
It is important to make distinctions between instances where “kids are being kids” and when they’re asserting things about themselves that are critical to their identity and development – as…
Resources on Gender-Expansive Children and Youth
What is “Gender-Expansive?”
In 2012, The Human Rights Campaign surveyed more than 10,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth across the United States. This report identified 925 youth who…
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