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Fortunately, there are more trans resources available everyday. Here is an incomplete list to get you started!
Jewish Organizations & Websites Actively Supporting Transgender Inclusion:
- Bay Area Jewish Healing Center provides Jewish spiritual care for people coping with illness, loss and dying regardless of affiliation or ability to pay.
- Jewish Transition: a resource for trans and gender-nonconforming Jews by Noach Dzmura.
- Jewish Mosaic: the first national organization dedicated to helping the Jewish world become more open, accessible, and welcoming to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Jews and their families. Jewish Mosaic co-produces Torah queeries, queer takes on the weekly Torah portion or Jewish holiday, and is working with Reuben Zellman and Elliot Kukla to produce the online resource TransTexts: Exploring Gender in Jewish Sacred Texts.
- Jewish Milestones: a community resource for Bay Area Jews preparing for lifecycle rituals. They offer consultations and referrals, as well as professional development opportunities for ritual facilitators.
- Keshet: a grassroots organization dedicated to creating a fully inclusive Jewish community for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) Jews in Greater Boston and across the country.
- Ritualwell: a source for thousands of innovative, contemporary Jewish rituals.
General Resources
Families and Youth
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Camp Aranu'tiq: A weeklong, tuition-free, overnight summer camp for transgender and gender-variant youth ages 8 through 15. It's a place where life experiences are shared and lifelong friendships are made.
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Gender Spectrum Family: An organization dedicated to the education and support of families raising gender variant, gender non-conforming, gender-fluid, crossgender, and transgender children and adolescents.
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KIDS OF TRANS: A group for people with one or more transgendered parents. A This is a project of COLAGE, that offers resource guides, an email list, and advice for parents undergoing a gender transition.
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Trans Youth and Family Allies: TYFA empowers children and families by partnering with educators, service providers and communities, to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected. We envision a society free of suicide and violence in which ALL children are respected and celebrated.
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TransProud: A network for transgender youth and their families.
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Bodies Like Ours: Support and information for people born with atypical genitalia.
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