Resources And Suggestions To Assist With Coming Out

[Guest Evan_J]

Coming out is perhaps the most delicate and life altering endeavor that any transgendered person undertakes. It is impartial to age, race, or gender in the potential consequences that it can hold, and often is a "multiply-occurring event" as the transgendered person navigates through immediate family, intimate friends, children, and spouses, to extended relatives, and even co-workers. An effort has been suggested to compose a possible "in-thread resource" of valuable resources to assist in this undertaking. The following link, to a published work from the Human Rights Campaign (thank you Crossroads for sending it ) is one attempt at gathering those resouces and helpful materials.

If there are other works or materials that might be of help , it would be appreciated if they were made known in a pm, so that an effort could be made to add them.

Human Rights Campaign And National Center For Transgender Equality Release Groundbreaking Guide, ‘Coming Out As Transgender’

http://www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Gender_Id...nder_Primer.pdf

http://www.t-vox.org/index.php?title=Comin...telling_parents (Focus on telling parents)

http://www.pflag.org/fileadmin/user_upload...g_Out_Trans.pdf (Has a section on Coming out and dealing with children)

http://www.gendertalk.com/articles/stories/bridges.shtml One persons coming out and what she learned/deduced from it.

A place you can turn to for some data when people as you "why" you are trans: (easy printable synopsis')

http://www.ftmaustralia.org/category/education.html

Easy starter information provided by Brown University that might be useful with those people in the trans persons life who are concerned with the health issue of being trans.

http://www.brown.edu/Student_Services/Heal...bt_trans.htm#88

[Guest Leigh]

Coming out is perhaps the most delicate and life altering endeavor that any transgendered person undertakes. It is impartial to age, race, or gender in the potential consequences that it can hold, and often is a "multiply-occurring event" as the transgendered person navigates through immediate family, intimate friends, children, and spouses, to extended relatives, and even co-workers. An effort has been suggested to compose a possible "in-thread resource" of valuable resources to assist in this undertaking. The following link, to a published work from the Human Rights Campaign (thank you Crossroads for sending it ) is one attempt at gathering those resouces and helpful materials.

If there are other works or materials that might be of help , it would be appreciated if they were made known in a pm, so that an effort could be made to add them.

Human Rights Campaign And National Center For Transgender Equality Release Groundbreaking Guide, 'Coming Out As Transgender'

hey Evan, the link has one too many http// in it.

thanks for putting this up.

peace&love

leigh

[Guest Evan_J]

This is why I need you guys

[Carolyn Marie]

I've been working with my HR to prepare for my eventual coming out. They purchased a DVD produced by the Human Rights Campaign - "Understanding Transgender Issues: The Donna Rose Story," and asked me to preview it to see if I thought it would be a suitable training aid for both management and my staff.

I watched it tonight, and found it to be well done. I think it will be a useful resource. Donna Rose comes across as well spoken, professional, insightful, humorous,

and engaging, and her story is very much like many of ours. I encourage anyone coming out at work to consider this tool.

http://www.hrc.org/issues/6828.htm

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Evan_J]

I've been working with my HR to prepare for my eventual coming out. They purchased a DVD produced by the Human Rights Campaign - "Understanding Transgender Issues: The Donna Rose Story," and asked me to preview it to see if I thought it would be a suitable training aid for both management and my staff.

I watched it tonight, and found it to be well done. I think it will be a useful resource. Donna Rose comes across as well spoken, professional, insightful, humorous,

and engaging, and her story is very much like many of ours. I encourage anyone coming out at work to consider this tool.

http://www.hrc.org/issues/6828.htm

Carolyn Marie

Niiice. Good lookin out

[Guest Shy]

Unfortunately, most of these links are now broken...

Here's a website that somebody posted elsewhere on Laura's a while back. It has links to a bunch of studies regarding trans people.

http://aebrain.blogspot.com/p/reference-works-on-transsexual-and.html

Hopefully this thread bump rejuvenates some of the links. I'm sure plenty of people could use the help, including me .

[Guest Amberley_Vail]

Id especially like to request a link to something to help with talking to parents.

I have a feeling that its not going to go well...

[Guest musicalice]

Amberley, try this to start with: http://www.tsroadmap.com/mental/comeout.html

(note to the guys: the website is generally written for trans women, but I think the coming out pages would be useful to any gender).