Suicide Prevention and Hotlines
LGBT National Help Center
glnh.org
(888) 843-4564
The LGBT National Help Center offers a free, confidential hotline from 4 p.m. to midnight EST Monday through Friday, and Saturdays from noon to 5 p.m. EST, to help LGBTQ+ individuals with coming-out issues, gender identity, relationship concerns, bullying, and more.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
suicidepreventionlifeline.org
(800) 273-8255
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline offers free, confidential support to LGBTQ+ individuals, or anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.
The Trevor Project
thetrevorproject.org
(866) 488-7386
If you are thinking about suicide or are feeling alone and need someone to talk to, call the Trevor Lifeline for immediate help. It’s free, confidential, and available 24-7 to LGBTQ+ youth. They also offer a text-based help line that can be reached by texting START to 678678.
Trans Lifeline
translifeline.org
(877) 565-8860
The Trans Lifeline’s peer-support hotline is staffed exclusively by transgender people and is available every day from 10 a.m. to 4 a.m. EST, though volunteers may be available during off-hours.
Crisis Text Line
crisistextline.org
Live, trained crisis counselors at the Crisis Text Line offer support to anyone in emotional distress. Text “HOME” to 741741 to receive 24-7 support in the US.
Sex Worker Resources
SWOP (Sex Workers Outreach Project)
swopusa.org/
The Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) is a social justice network dedicated to decriminalizing sex work, advocating for sex workers’ rights, and raising awareness of issues affecting sex workers. It has local chapters in many cities across the US.
DECRIMNOW
decrimnow.org/
DECRIMNOW is a Washington, DC-based movement to decriminalize sex work and advocate for the rights, health, safety, and well-being of sex workers. It hosts community and canvassing events for sex workers and their allies.
Sex Workers Project—Urban Justice Center
swp.urbanjustice.org/
(646) 602-5617
The Sex Workers Project aims to create a better world for sex workers by helping them access stable housing and safer working conditions, protect their rights in family court, clear their criminal records, secure legal immigration status, and fight police misconduct and hate crimes free of charge.
NOTES
PART II BEGINNINGS OF A TRANSITION
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2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Risk Behaviors among Students in Grades 9–12: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance (Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services, 2016).
3. Jaime M. Grant, Lisa A. Mottet, Justin Tanis, with Jack Harrison, Jody L. Herman, and Mara Keisling, Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (Washington, DC: National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 2011), https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/resources/NTDS_Report.pdf.
4. Neal A. Palmer, Emily A. Greytak, and Joseph G. Kosciw, Educational Exclusion: Drop Out, Push Out, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline among LGBTQ Youth (New York: GLSEN, 2016), https://www.glsen.org/research/drop-out-push-out-school-prison-pipeline.
5. Chase Strangio and Amy Fettig, “The Trump Administration Is Attacking Trans People in Federal Prison,” ACLU, May 25, 2018, https://www.aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/criminal-justice-reform-lgbt-people/trump -administration-attacking-trans-people.
PART III MARIZOL
1. National Center for Transgender Equality, “Know Your Rights: Social Security,” https://transequality.org/know-your-rights/social-security; “Complaint Form for Allegations of Program Discrimination by the Social Security Administration” (Form SSA-437), https://www.ssa.gov/forms/ssa-437.pdf.
2. Sandy E. James, Jody L. Herman, Susan Rankin, Mara Keisling, Lisa Mottet, and Ma’ayan Anafi, The Report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (Washington, DC: National Center for Transgender Equality, December 2016), http://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS%20Full%20Report%20-%20FINAL%201.6.17.pdf.
3. “2017 Workplace Equality Fact Sheet,” Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, http://outandequal.org/2017-workplace-equality-fact-sheet/.
4. National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and HIV-Affected Hate Violence in 2016 (New York: Emily Waters, 2016), http://avp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/NCAVP_2016HateViolence_REPORT.pdf.
5. Taylor N. T. Brown and Jody L. Herman, Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Abuse among LGBT People: A Review of Existing Research (Los Angeles: Williams Institute, November 2015), https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu /wp-content/uploads/Intimate-Partner-Violence-and-Sexual-Abuse-among -LGBT-People.pdf.
6. James et al., Report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, http://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS%20Full%20Report%20-%20FINAL%201.6.17.pdf.
7. National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and HIV-Affected Intimate Partner Violence in 2016 (New York: Emily Waters, 2017), http://avp.org/wp-content/uploads /2017/11/NCAVP-IPV-Report-2016.pdf.
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