Resources for TGE & LGBTQ+ Support

The following resources were compiled to best support as many TGE & LGBTQ+ people as possible. Some sources are presented in multiply applicable categories so they won't get missed by those who may need them.

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(Last reviewed September 2026)

Resource Types Below (in order)

1. Finding Local Support 2. Crisis Support 3. Community Support 4. LGBTQ+ Youth

5. Mental Health/Counseling 6. Healthcare 7. Transition Assistance 8. Housing & Food

9. Legal Help 10. Employment & Workplace 11. Education & Scholarships

12. Names, Gender Markers & ID's 13. LGBTQ+ Elders 14. LGBTQ+ Families

15. Abuse & Survivor Support 16. Black/African American 17. Latine/x/a/o 18. AAPI

19. Indigenous & Two-Spirit 20. Immigrants & Refugees 21. Disability

22. Veterans & Military 23. Spiritual & Religious 24. Current News

Finding Local Support

Finding Local Support

Finding Local Support

•CenterLink LGBTQ+ Community Center Directory

•PFLAG Chapter Network

•211 — Local housing, food, healthcare, transportation, and social services

•Findhelp — Searchable directory of local assistance programs

•LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory

•OutCare LGBTQ+ Provider Directory

•Equality Federation Member Organizations — State-based LGBTQ+ organizations

•LGBT Near Me — Support resources from the LGBT National Help Center

Crisis Support

Finding Local Support

Finding Local Support

TGE

•Trans Lifeline — Trans peer-support hotline

•BlackLine — Peer support centering Black, Black LGBTQ+, Brown, Native, and Muslim communities

•THRIVE Lifeline — Text-based support for marginalized people

LGBTQ +

•The Trevor Project — 24/7 crisis support for LGBTQ+ young people

•LGBT National Help Center — Hotlines, peer support, and local resources

•988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — General U.S. crisis support

•Crisis Text Line

•SAGE National LGBTQ+ Elder Hotline

•NAMI HelpLine

•National Runaway Safeline

Community Support

Finding Local Support

Community Support

TGE

•Trans Lifeline Resources

•Gender Spectrum

•TransFamilies

•Stand with Trans

•Point of Pride

•Transgender Heaven — Online transgender community

•FTM International

•Black Trans Advocacy Coalition

•TransLatin@ Coalition

LGBTQ+

•TrevorSpace — Moderated online community for LGBTQ+ youth

•Q Chat Space — Facilitated online groups for LGBTQ+ teens

•COLAGE — Community for people with LGBTQ+ parents or caregivers

•Family Equality

•Give Us the Floor — Peer community for LGBTQ+ youth and young adults

• Empty Closets — Moderated LGBTQ+ discussion forum

LGBTQ+ Youth

Mental Health/Counseling

Community Support

•The Trevor Project

•Q Chat Space

•Give Us the Floor

•TransFamilies

•Stand with Trans

•Gender Spectrum

•National Runaway Safeline

•True Colors United

•Point Foundation

Mental Health/Counseling

Mental Health/Counseling

Mental Health/Counseling

•National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network

•Inclusive Therapists

•LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory

•OutCare LGBTQ+ Provider Directory

•Association of LGBTQ+ Psychiatrists

•SAIGE: Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities

•NAMI LGBTQ+ Mental Health Resources

•The Trevor Project Resource Center

• LGBT National Help Center

Healthcare

Mental Health/Counseling

Mental Health/Counseling

Finding Care

•LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory

•OutCare LGBTQ+ Provider Directory

•WPATH Provider Directory

•Planned Parenthood — Gender-Affirming Care

•Campaign for Southern Equality — Trans in the South

•A4TE — Finding Trans Health Care Providers

•GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality

Health Information

•UCSF Transgender Care

•National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center

•Trans Care BC

•World Professional Association for Transgender Health

•Center of Excellence for Transgender Health

•InterACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth

•InterConnect — Intersex peer support

Sexual & Reproductive Health

•Planned Parenthood

•National Coalition for LGBTQ Health

•HIV.gov — Find HIV Services

•The Body — HIV resources

•National Network of STD Clinical Prevention Training Centers

• InterACT: Intersex Resources

Transition Assistance

Transition Assistance

Transition Assistance

•Point of Pride — Surgery grants, electrolysis assistance, binders, and transfemme shapewear

•Jim Collins Foundation — Gender-affirming surgery grants

•For the Gworls — Assistance centering Black trans people

•Transanta - Seasonal mutual aid

•Campaign for Southern Equality — Funding Your Transition

•Genderbands — Transition-related grants

•Trans Health Legal Fund — Health-insurance and legal information

•Modest Needs — Short-term financial assistance

Free or Reduced-Cost Gender-Affirming Items

•Point of Pride — Free Chest Binders

•Point of Pride — Free Trans Femme Shapewear

•Point of Pride — Electrolysis Support

•DCATS Binder Exchange

•CenterLink Community Center Directory

Housing & Food

Transition Assistance

Transition Assistance

•211

•CenterLink Community Center Directory

•True Colors United — LGBTQ+ youth homelessness

•National Runaway Safeline

•National Homelessness Law Center

•HUD Find Shelter

•Covenant House

•Ali Forney Center — LGBTQ+ youth services in New York City

•For the Gworls — Assistance centering Black transgender people

•Trans Housing Coalition — Atlanta-area housing support

Legal Help

Transition Assistance

Employment & Workplace

•Transgender Law Center

•Transgender Law Center Legal Information Helpdesk

•Advocates for Trans Equality

•Lambda Legal

•National Center for LGBTQ Rights

•American Civil Liberties Union — LGBTQ Rights

•InterACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth

•Immigration Equality

•Trans Law Help

Employment & Workplace

Names, Gender Markers, & ID's

Employment & Workplace

•Transgender Law Center — Employment Resources

•Pride at Work

•Trans Can Work

•Out Professionals

•Out to Innovate

•National LGBT Chamber of Commerce

•U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

•Workplace Fairness

Education & Scholarships

Names, Gender Markers, & ID's

Names, Gender Markers, & ID's

•Campus Pride

•Campus Pride Index

•Point Foundation Scholarships

•Pride Foundation Scholarships

•Trans Student Educational Resources

•PFLAG Scholarships

•Live Out Loud Scholarships

•LEAGUE Foundation Scholarships

•American College Health Association LGBTQ+ Resources

Names, Gender Markers, & ID's

Names, Gender Markers, & ID's

Names, Gender Markers, & ID's

•A4TE ID Documents Center

•Movement Advancement Project — Identity Document Laws and Policies

•Transgender Law Center — Identity Documents

•Trans Law Help

•GLAD Law — Identity Document Updates