Last month, Texas Governor Abbott and Texas Attorney General Paxton attempted to criminalize and investigate a parent who is trying to provide their child with accessing age-appropriate, medically-necessary, gender-affirming care, which not only aims to tear families apart but goes against every major medical and mental health organization in the country—each of which supports gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary people. After this announcement, a group of Rocketeers joined together to show our support and provide resources for those affected:
- Texas Trans Kids TXTransKids.org
- Video on LGBT students rights
- LGBTQIA+ Students’ rights toolkit
- Become an advocate
- Mental health resources, links to LGBT helplines
- TENT transtexas.org
- Furthering gender diverse equality in Texas Emergency relief fund
- Focus on education, advocacy, and empowerment
- Lambda legal Lambdalegal.org
- Resources on legal protections for LGBTQIA+ people and families
- News on LGBTQIA+ legislation
- Working for equality in employment, families, healthcare, hiv, criminal injustice, race and income, and more
- National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition blacktrans.org
- Dallas based
- Improving the black trans human experience by overcoming violence and injustice in the world
- Advocating for health, housing, and employment equality
- Resources on facts about the black trans experience
- Trans pride initiative tpride.org
- Dallas based
- Working to provide assistance for trans and gender diverse people in healthcare, housing, employment, education, and public accommodations
- Resources on gender justice, name and gender marker changes, birth certificate updates, housing, healthcare, and more
- PFLAG Dallas pflagdallas.org
- PFLAG - Parents, friends, and families of lesbians and gays
- A group within and in support of LGBTQ+ community, their parents, family, friends, and allies
- Educate and advocate for equality
- Serving LGBTQ+ individuals in Dallas for almost 30 years
- Lists of local resources and inclusive church directory