Transgender Resource Guide

Advocacy

  • National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)
    1325 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 700
    Washington, DC 20005
    (202) 903-0112

    NCTE is a social justice organization dedicated to advancing the equality of transgender people through advocacy, collaboration and empowerment.

  • Advocates for Youth
    2000 M. St. NW
    Washington, DC 20036
    202-418-3420

    Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world.

  • Coalition for Positive Sexuality
    PO Box 77212
    Washington, DC 20013
    773-604-1654

    CPS is dedicated to real and honest education on sex and sexuality.

  • DC Trans Coalition
    202-917-0446

    United to improve the lives of trans people in our nation's capital.

  • Gender Public Advocacy Coalition
    1721 Connecticut Ave. NW
    Washington, DC 20009
    202-462-6610

    The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition works to ensure that classrooms, communities, and workplaces are safe for everyone to learn, grow, and succeed - whether or not they meet expectations for masculinity and femininity.

  • National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC)
    1638 R St NW, Suite 300
    Washington, DC 20009
    202-319-7365

    "A social justice organization that advocates for and with young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) in an effort to end discrimination against these youth and to ensure their physical and emotional well being."

  • National Network for Youth
    1319 F St, NW, Suite 401
    Washington, DC 20004
    202-783-7949

    National non-profit organization that provides education, networking, training, materials, and policy work with lawmakers. Focus on needs of disconnected youth through advocacy, innovation, and services.

  • The National Coaltion for LGBT Health
    1325 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Suite 705
    Washington, DC 20005
    202-558-6828

    Focus on research, policy, programs and services, professional and cultural competency, and the diversity of the national LGBT community

  • Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance
    PO Box 75265
    Washington, DC 20013
    (202) 667-5139

    Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, DC, is a local, all-volunteer, non-partisan, non-profit political organization, founded in 1971 to advance the equal rights of gay men and lesbians in Washington, DC. We are the nation's oldest continuously active gay and lesbian civil rights organization.

  • National Black Justice Coalition
    1725 I Street, NW Suite 300
    Washington, DC 20006
    202.349.3756

    The National Black Justice Coalition is a civil rights organization of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and our allies dedicated to fostering equality by fighting racism and homophobia. The Coalition advocates for social justice by educating and mobilizing opinion leaders, including elected officials, clergy, and media, with a focus on Black communities

  • The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
    1325 Mass. Ave, NW Suite 600
    Washington, DC 20005
    202.393.5177

    The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Inc. ("NGLTF, Inc."), founded in 1974, works to build the grassroots political power of the LGBT community in order to attain complete equality. We do so through direct and grassroots lobbying to either help defeat anti-LGBT ballot initiatives and other measures or help push pro-LGBT legislation and other measures.

  • Family Equality Council

    The Family Equality Council works to ensure equality for LGBT families by building community, changing hearts and minds, and advancing social justice for all families.

  • The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network(GLSEN)
    202-293-3358

    GLSEN, or the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, is a national education organization working to ensure safe schools for ALL students, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity.

  • Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund
    212-701-3455

    Lambda Legal is the oldest national organization pursuing high-impact litigation, public education and advocacy on behalf of equality and civil rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV

  • Get Busy. Get Equal. ACLU

    A project from ACLU

  • The National Coalition for LGBT Health

    The National Coalition fo Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health is committed to improving the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and communities through public education, coalition building and advocacy that focus on research, policy, education and training.

  • Transgender Equality: A Handbook for Activists and Policymakers

    A downloadable guide to trans activism from the Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

  • Transgender Health Empowerment, Inc.
    1711 N. Capitol St, NE
    Washington, DC 20002
    202-636-1646
    info@theincdc.org

    The mission of T.H.E. Inc. is to enhance the quality of life of the diverse transgender populations we serve by advocating for and supporting a continuum of health and social services. In fulfilling our mission, we seek to unify and empower the transgender, lesbian, gay, and bisexual communities.

  • Equality Maryland
    1319 Apple Ave
    Silver Spring, MD 20910
    301.587.7500
    info@equalitymaryland.org

    Equality Maryland is Maryland's largest LGBT civil rights organization, focused on making life better for LGBT Marylanders and their families.

  • HRC
    1640 Rhode Island Ave NW
    Washington, DC 20036
    1-800-777-4723

    The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality.

  • Equality Virginia
    403 N. Robinson Street
    Richmond, VA 23220
    804-643-4816

    Equality Virginia is a statewide, non-partisan lobbying, education and support network for the GLBT and straight allied communities in Virginia.