The Youth Advocacy Team has built an online, comprehensive resource to support transgender students as well as families and educators.
Today’s society is recognizing the experiences and needs of transgender people as never before. This trend is most evident in our nation’s schools, where an increasing number of transgender and gender-expansive students live openly as their authentic selves. At the same time, parents, students, educators, administrators and other stakeholders are working together to determine the best ways to support these students.
Many are unfamiliar with the needs of transgender students, and attempts to meet those needs can be fraught with emotion for all involved. Educators may have concerns about their own capacity to support their transgender students, or hesitate to act because of personal feelings or fear of negative reactions from the larger community. Transgender students themselves may struggle with a variety of issues in seeking to be authentically seen, including the fear of social rejection and mistreatment or abuse from peers. As a result, many of these students hope to escape notice and to simply survive rather than flourish.
LEARN MORE ABOUT TRANS IDENTITIES AND HOW TO BEST SUPPORT OUR TRANS STUDENTS & COMMUNITY by visiting https://youthadvocacy.us/transgender-student-support
