Information & Resources for Parents & Families

If you would like to connect with families in southern Arizona, please send an email to transparents@sagatucson.org. Be sure to tell us a little bit about you and your family!

TransYouth Family Advocates, www.imatyfa.org
TransYouth Family Advocates (TYFA) are parents, family, friends and caring adults dedicated to educating and raising public awareness about the medical and cultural challenges faced by children with gender variant and gender questioning identities and the families who love them.

Gender Spectrum Education and Training, www.genderspectrum.org
Gender Spectrum Education and Training is dedicated to creating supportive and nurturing environments for all children through trainings, information, and resources offered to families, schools, and organizations.

Gender Spectrum Family, www.genderodysseyfamily.com
The Gender Spectrum Conference is a family-centered conference to support people raising gender non-conforming, gender-variant, and transgender children and adolescents through information and workshops. The website itself has lots of wonderful information.

Parenting and Support

The Family Acceptance Project, http://familyproject.sfsu.edu
The Family Acceptance Project (FAP) is a community research, intervention and training initiative to study the impact of family acceptance and rejection on the health, mental health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth.

Transfamily, http://www.transfamily.org
Transfamily is a support group for transgender and transexual people and their family and friends based out of Cleveland, Ohio. They provide referrals, literature, and over-the-phone information on all transgender issues. Although their meetings are held in Cleveland, Ohio, the Internet has enabled them to extend helping hands to transgender individuals and their families across the globe.

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Information & Resources for Youth

Talking to your Parents and Family  http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/04/how-to-talk-to-your-parents-about-transitioning/
Talking to your parents and family about your identity and your transition can be exciting and sometimes scary.  If you decide you would like to talk to your family, there is no "right" way to have that conversation.  The above article offers up a few ideas that may help get the conversation started.  Remember that you deserve love, respect, and to be gendered correctly!