Sex Education Resources
This is a space where I will share resources as I gather on an ongoing basis for information regarding sexuality, sexual health, and transgender health. I encourage you to email me with resources that have struck you as particularly useful.
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Scarleteen is an independent, grassroots sexuality and relationships education and support organization and website. Founded in 1998, Scarleteen.com is visited by around eight million diverse people each year -- around 5,000 of whom we typically speak with directly through our direct services and in-person outreach -- most between the ages of 15 and 30. It is typically the most popular and most widely used site specifically providing sex and relationships information and support for young people worldwide and has been so through most of its tenure.
“I am dedicated wholeheartedly to the field of sexuality education, delivering information from a sex & pleasure-positive, queer and trans-inclusive and feminist perspective through interactive workshops and coaching. I apply my work from a social justice, rights-based lens with empathy, respect, compassion and celebration for all experiences, identities, expressions and bodies. I want everyone to trust that I will give medically accurate information and to see themselves reflected in what I do.”
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Autostraddle’s girl-on-girl culture is rooted in basic social values and ideals — we want women to feel good about themselves, we want equality and visibility for all marginalized groups and ultimately, we’d like to change the world.
We seek to be a fresh, energizing voice for lesbian, bisexual and queer women, one that takes the reader seriously and encourages intelligent discourse, one that entertains with funny, uncensored and brutally honest conversation and content and one that also provides photos of hot girls.
We endorse an “it takes a village” approach to the LGBTQ webiverse. We encourage community and support amongst women on the web and do not encourage competition between websites or other media outlets. We believe change is best accomplished when we are working together as activists, artists and thinkers.
We’re here to listen, to change and we do not ask what our users can do for us, but what we can do for our users!
We are a trans-friendly website and aim to make Autostraddle an accepting and supportive environment for lesbian, bisexual and queer trans women. Although Autostraddle is a website created for and primarily aimed at lesbian, bisexual and queer women, as the community evolves we also are starting to include work by and about non-binary-identified people too.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), formerly known as the (Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA), is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, interdisciplinary professional and educational organization devoted to transgender health. Our professional, supporting, and student members engage in clinical and academic research to develop evidence-based medicine and strive to promote a high quality of care for transsexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming individuals internationally. We are funded primarily through the support of our membership, and through donations and grants sponsored by non-commercial sources.
Mission: To promote evidence based care, education, research, advocacy, public policy, and respect in transgender health.
Vision: We envision a world wherein people of all gender identities and gender expressions have access to evidence-based healthcare, social services, justice and equality.
Goals and Tasks
As an international interdisciplinary, professional organization, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) will work to further the understanding and treatment of gender dysphoria by professionals in medicine, psychology, law, social work, counseling, psychotherapy, family studies, sociology, anthropology, sexology, speech and voice therapy, and other related fields.
WPATH provides opportunities for professionals from various sub-specialties to communicate with each other in the context of research and treatment of gender dysphoria including sponsoring biennial scientific symposia.
WPATH publishes the Standards of Care and Ethical Guidelines, which articulate a professional consensus about the psychiatric, psychological, medical, and surgical management of gender dysphoria and help professionals understand the parameters within which they may offer assistance to those with these conditions.