Laura’s Playground
Laura’s Playground is a transsexual, transgender, and cross-dressing support and news site. Personal support is provided through transgender forums, live chat, and e-mail. Both male-to-female and female-to-male transgender spectrums are included. Other features include an advice column, free no combat transgender forums and message boards, thousands of trans-resources, transgender support group online meetings, and research surveys.
Tags: transgender, transsexual, cross-dressing, support, education, news, forums, personal support, chat
Organization Intersex International – United States
The Organization Intersex International (OII) is the world’s largest intersex advocacy organization. OII’s mission is to attain human rights for intersex infants, children, and adults, particularly the right to bodily intergrity and self-determination.
OII-USA’s mission is to campaign for the human rights of all intersex people, to support intersex individuals by providing information and contact with other intersex people, to provide information concerning actual life experiences of people with intersex variations to those working with people with atypical sex anatomy, and to assist family and friends of intersex individuals in understanding intersex variations and their role as allies.
Tags: intersex, support, advocacy, education, allies, outreach, resources, human rights, allies, ethics
National LGBT Cancer Network
The National LGBT Cancer Network is the only program in the country addressing the needs of all LGBT people with cancer and those at risk. Our work focuses on education, advocacy, and training.
Tags: health, cancer, national, LGBT, advocacy, education, training, outreach
Missouri LGBT Health Access Training Network
The Missouri LGBT Health Access Training Network provides cultural competency trainings geared toward creating safe and welcoming health/social service settings for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community members.
Network Trainers have successfully completed a train-the-trainer program provided by the National LGBT Cancer Network. Trainings will be customized to meet the needs of your organization.
By the end of the training, your staff will:
- Understand LGBT identities and unique health needs
- Explore barriers and challenges that LGBT patients/clients face in accessing health/social services
- Discuss new federal policies which increase access to care for LGBT patients/clients
- Identify steps to remove barriers to care for LGBT patients/clients
To schedule a training, contact: SAGE Metro St. Louis
E-mail: ewebb@sagemetrostl.org
Phone: 314-772-5887
Tags: health, training, education, healthcare, providers, ally
Missouri Association for Social Welfare
The Missouri Association for Social Welfare works to provide leadership, research, education, and advocacy to improve public policies and programs impacting the health and welfare of all people in Missouri. They envision a Missouri that is more just, equitable and democratic and that assures every person’s health, safety, security, independence, human rights, dignity, and opportunity to reach full potential.
Tags: advocacy, education, research, leadership, organizing, health, human rights, welfare, public policy
Williams and Associates, Inc.
Our mission is to provide preventive health education, disease prevention, health promotion and care services that address the health disparities of minorities in the St. Louis Bi-State Region, with particular regard to African Americans.
Tags: african americans, health, minorities, disparities, disease prevention, education
Transsexual Road Map
Welcome! Transsexual transition is simply a journey. Just like a trip, you decide on
- your destination
- the time you’ll need to get there
- the money you’ll spend
Transsexual Road Map is a travel guide to set priorities and choose your route. It’s about making informed purchasing decisions and setting realistic, achievable transition goals.
Tags: trans, transsexual, transition, education
The Transitional Male
An Privately Owned Educational Resource with Focus on Enhancing The Lives of Transmen – Long-timers, In-Between and Those About to Transition to Male Helpful also to Friends, Family and Significant Others.
Tags: trans, transgender, resources, education
Safe Connections
Please use this Safe Connections site to learn more about the dynamics of domestic violence and sexual assault…and our programs where victims become survivors. Our mission is to reduce the impact and incidence of relationship violence and sexual assault through education, crisis intervention, counseling and support services.
Located in St. Louis, Missouri, Safe Connections is a place where relationship violence and its long-term effects are addressed in complete confidence and security. Our individual counseling enables thousands of survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault to reclaim their lives. Our 24-hour Crisis Helpline volunteers provide resources and information to survivors, family members and concerned friends. Project HART offers information about healthy relationships to adolescents at schools and other sites around the region. Our services are free, safe and confidential.
Tags: education, domestic violence, crisis intervention, support, counseling, crisis line, sexual assault
FTM Resource Guide
This Guide is intended to provide information on topics of interest to female-to-male (FTM, F2M) trans men, and their friends and loved ones. Non-trans men have also found the pages on men’s grooming and clothing to be helpful. Transsexual, non-transsexual, intersex, transgender, genderqueer, questioning, and “just plain folks” are all welcome.
Tags: trans, transgender, health, education