Trans Up Front Illinois

Trans Up Front was founded with a powerful commitment to educate, advocate, and support the transgender and gender nonconforming community, with a particular emphasis on centering their voices and providing support to youth, teens and young adults and their support

*!* Illinois Pride Connect

We are a resource hub for our vibrant LGBTQIA+ community here in Illinois. We welcome you to connect to the resources you need to feel supported and at home here. We have materials to empower you to know your rights

The Affirmative Couch

The Affirmative Couch is a committed advocate for the mental health of LGBTQIA+, consensually non-monogamous, and kink communities, working with both groups and individual providers. The Affirmative Couch takes a multi-pronged approach: provide continuing education for affirmative psychotherapists, transform more

Transgender people and law enforcement interactions: Rights and Realities

This guide is intended to briefly outline your rights when it comes to interacting with law enforcement officers and share some examples of the reality that law enforcement officers often disregard peoples’ rights. This guide is designed for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people, but a lot of the information will be helpful to others. This guide is not intended to replace your life experience, common sense, or ability to determine what makes you safest in any particular situation. You know best how to keep yourself safe, so trust your instincts. If you know you will have to interact with law enforcement, it is best to have trusted friends and family accompany you or be prepared to provide you support. We keep us safe.

Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois

TJLP consists of a group of folks who believe in the power of communal care over systemic oppression. We are radical activists, legal workers, and organizers who provide support, advocacy, and free, holistic legal services to poor and street-based transgender people in Illinois.

We use our legal access and our privilege as people on the outside to further the prison abolition movement. We work in three project areas: legal services, support community survival, and educational resources and trainings.

Let’s Talk About It: A Transgender Survivor’s Guide to Accessing Therapy

While many transgender people see individual therapists, choosing and working with a therapist can be more complex for the half of transgender people who are also sexual assault survivors. This 107-page guide addresses many of the specific questions trans survivors ask: how to decide if therapy is right for you and, if it is, how to choose the best type of therapy for you, and how to find referrals and choose a therapist. The guide also discusses trans-specific survivor issues such as dealing with Standards of Care issues; addressing shame and body image/dysphoria issues; and navigating sex-segregated services.

Hire Trans Now Chicago Job Board

Our Hire Trans Now Employers enthusiastically encourage Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender-Expansive job candidates to apply to their open positions. Hiring decisions will be centered on candidates’ qualifications, however, participating employers strive to hire and welcome Trans-identified workers.

Candidates are not required to disclose their gender identities in order to take advantage of this initiative. We understand many Trans job workers may be simply looking for an inclusive employer and may not be out as Trans on the job.

Safer Sex for Trans Bodies (Sexo Seguro Para Los Cuerpos Trans)

The HRC Foundation, in partnership with Whitman-Walker Health, released Safer Sex for Trans Bodies, a comprehensive sexual health guide for transgender and gender expansive people and their partners. The guide is written by and for members of the transgender community and offers them a long-overdue resource on potentially life-saving and affirming practices, from respectful terminology and definitions to helpful practices for sexual health following transition-related care. It is available in English and Spanish,

Kankakee Area LGBTQ Network

The Network focuses on creating a connected queer space within the Kankakee County community. Today, the Network in addition to a literal network of LGBTQ folks across the Kankakee area connecting for support and sharing resources, but also host monthly