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Below is a list of support hotlines that anyone can contact in the event of a crisis or in the need of support.

Trevor Lifeline (866-488-7386) for LGBTQ youth in crisis is free and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can also ask for help on TrevorChat or TrevorText.
Trans Lifeline (877-565-8860) is primarily for transgender people experiencing a crisis, including struggles with gender identity and being unsure about ones identity. They welcome any transgender person in need of assistance.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800-273-8255) can be reached 24/7. While this hotline is for anyone in need of support, it can also be used as a resource for the LGBTQ+ community.
Trans Lifeline (877-565-8860) is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

There is also multiple LGBT hotlines that can be found at LGBT National Help Center.

Quick Numbers:
- 888-843-4564 LGBT National Hotline
- 888-688-5428 LGBT National Coming Out Support Hotline
- 800-246-7743 LGBT National Youth Talkline
- 888-234-7243 LGBT National Senior Hotline

The LGBT National Help Center also provides chat rooms and other methods of support.

The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1998. Focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth, they offer a toll-free telephone number where confidential assistance is provided by trained counselors.
Louisiana Trans Advocates
An organization committed to advancing the core human rights of self-determination and expression for all trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people in Louisiana.
LGBT National Help Center
All of our support volunteers identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ family, and are here to serve the entire community, by providing free & confidential peer-support, information, and local resources through national hotlines and online programs.
GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)
Founded in 1985, GLAAD is a non-profit organization focused on LGBTQ advocacy and cultural change. GLAAD works to ensure fair, accurate, and inclusive representation and creates national and local programs that advance LGBTQ acceptance. Serving as a storyteller, media force, resource, and advocate, GLAAD tackles tough issues and provokes dialogue so that authentic LGBTQ stories are seen, heard, and actualized. GLAAD strives to protect all that has been accomplished and helps create a world where everyone can live the life they love.
Trans Empowerment Project
Trans Empowerment Project is moving the Trans community out of crisis and into empowerment by working with accomplices to improve access to vital resources to ensure that our most marginalized community members, Disabled 2TIGE-BIPOC, can thrive and live their best lives.

LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual and Gender Diversity by Michele J. Eliason, Michele J; Peggy L. Chinn
Vital for all nursing specialties, this is the seminal guide to actively providing appropriate, culturally sensitive care to persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia by Jeff Mann (Editor); Julia Watts (Editor)
This collection confronts the problematic and complex intersections of place, family, sexuality, gender, and religion with which LGBTQ Appalachians often grapple. With works by established writers such as Dorothy Allison, Silas House, Ann Pancake, Fenton Johnson, and Nickole Brown and emerging writers such as Savannah Sipple, Rahul Mehta, Mesha Maren, and Jonathan Corcoran, this collection celebrates a literary canon made up of writers who give voice to what it means to be Appalachian and LGBTQ.
LGBTQ Rights and the Law by Duchess Harris; Martha Lundin
LGBTQ Rights and the Law explores the history of legislation affecting the LGBTQ community, including the proposed ban on transgender soldiers. It also explores the lives of the people who have challenged anti-LGBTQ legislation and made a difference for LGBTQ people in America.
Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty by Ana-Maurine Lara
Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her engagement in traditional ceremonies, observations of national Catholic celebrations, and interviews with activists from peasant, feminist, and LGBT communities to reframe contemporary conversations about queerness and blackness.
Queer Embodiment by Hil Malatino
Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means to have a legible body in the West. Hil Malatino explores how intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment assumed to require correction and how contesting this pathologization can promote medical reform and human rights for intersex and trans people.
Trans Love by Freiya Benson (Editor)
Reclaiming what love means to trans people, this book provokes conversations that are not reflected in what is presently written, moving the narrative around trans identities away from sensationalism. At once intimate and radical, and both humorous and poignant, this book is for anyone who has loved, who is in love, and who is looking for love.
Identities and Place by Katherine Crawford-Lackey (Editor); Megan E. Springate (Editor)
With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and the places associated with these communities. Authors explore how queer identities are connected with specific places: places where people gather, socialize, protest, mourn, and celebrate.
LGBTQ Rights and the Law by Duchess Harris; Martha Lundin
LGBTQ Rights and the Law explores the history of legislation affecting the LGBTQ community, including the proposed ban on transgender soldiers. It also explores the lives of the people who have challenged anti-LGBTQ legislation and made a difference for LGBTQ people in America.

Gender & Education
This journal contains articles and viewpoints from around the world which contribute to feminist knowledge, theory, consciousness, action, and debate.
Lesbian News
A magazine for the lesbian community, Lesbian News includes news of note, feature articles, commentary, profiles, music, book and movie reviews; focuses on relationships, lifestyle, social interaction and identity, health, prominent figures, and political issues.

A Practitioner's Resource Guide: Helping Families to Support Their LGBT Children
This resource guide offers information and resources to help practitioners in health and social service systems implement best practices to engage and help families and caregivers support their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) children.
Resources for Parents and Families of LGBTQ Individuals
This is a database containing multiple sources that may help educate families on how to support their LGBT children, such as help with connecting to LGBT networks, actions parents can take, and information on how to stay involved in the lives of their children.

List of safe and inclusive organizations in the New Orleans area
New Orleans has ample resources for the health and well-being of the trans community. Here are some of the best and most notable.
Library list of safe and inclusive organizations in the Baton Rouge area
Resources for members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer communities and their allies around and in the Baton Rouge area.

Finding Your True Voice
A Guide to Gender-Affirming Verbal Communication

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