Some groups in Los Angeles to follow for events and political organizing opportunities:

Gender Justice LA on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter

Black and Pink Los Angeles on Instagram and Facebook

La Familia: Trans & Queer Liberation 

San Fernando Valley Familia

Translatin@ Coalition

Nonbinary & Intersex Recognition Project

Unique Black Women’s Collective

To learn more about the history of trans community and political organizing, check out the Digital Trans Archive.

In Los Angeles County

• Toolbox, APAIT
• Trans Chorus of Los Angeles
• Trans Lounge, Los Angeles LGBT Center
• Trans Wellness Center

Online spaces

• Brown Boi Project 
• Invisible Men
• Trans Visible Hub
• Virtual Workshops for Men of Trans Experience

• Resources on trans intimate partner violence by Gender Justice LA & API-Equality LA

Services & hotlines

• LA LGBT Center intimate partner violence advocacy services 

• LA LGBT Center anti-violence legal services

• National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs hotline for LGBTQ+ survivors of any kind of violence: 212-714-1141

Resources online

• Mirror Memoirs an oral history project
  

• Trans Men and Domestic Abuse video published by the Advocate

• Transgender Sexual Violence Survivors: A Self-Help Guide to Healing and Understanding

• Why talking about domestic violence in the transgender community matters

HIV/STI testing

• LA LGBT Center
• The LGBTQ Center Long Beach
• APLA Health
• AIDS Healthcare Foundation Wellness Center
• Look up free, youth friendly clinics using the Pocket Guide LA

Information, supplies & workshops

• Toolbox Trans LA on IG
• APLAHealth TransConnections on IG (focus is on trans people of color under 30)
  
• The Pleasure Chest
• The Stockroom
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Online Resources

• A quick primer on HPV & Cancer by Fenway Health.
• PRIMED a sex guide written for trans men who are into men.
• PUMP: Sexual Pleasure & HealthResource Guide for Transmen who have Sex with Men
• Q&A Gynecological and vaginal care for trans men.

Services or resources in Los Angeles County

• Long Beach Birthworkers of Color Collective
• Malaya Midwifery Long Beach
• Transgender Health Care, including reproductive care, at the Planned Parenthood of Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley

Educational resources

• Trans Fertility Co.
• Things to know about birth control if you are trans or nonbinary 
• Preparing for Trans Pregnancy

Trans Lifeline – peer support hotline 877-565-8860

Networks & Frameworks

• Fireweed Collective

• Black Emotional and Mental Health (BEAM)
• Mad Queer Organizing Strategies

Therapists, coaches, & providers

• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network Directory
• Colors LGBTQ Youth Counseling (up to age 24)
• Los Angeles Gender Center
• Gender Spectrum’s list of online mental health resources
• The Gender Doula

• List of online AA meetings during COVID-19 
• Los Angeles Fuente Hollywood Treatment Center (offers treatment specifically designed for LGBTQ people)
• Harm Reduction Coalition’s Resources for people who use drugs and people vulnerable to structural violence
• Find treatment directory (General directory by zip code, includes an LGBT filter)

Reading

• Marijuana Harm Reduction: 20 easy strategies for cutting down

Services

• Spirituality and Transgender Health
• The AfroMystic
• Rise Up Good Witch
• Throop Universalist Unitarian Church

Online/Educational Resources

• Meditations on Transgender Spirituality
• Inclusive Islam Lecture Series  
• Spirituality and Transgender Health

Trans Can Work

Free services in Los Angeles County

• Bet Tzedek – Medical-Legal Partnership  (a medical-legal partnership providing education, collaborative advocacy, and legal services)
• LA LGBT Center  (legal clinic provides help preparing name/gender change legal docs. Also provides legal assistance for survivors of violence, immigration issues, and discrimination).

Paid services

• Chazan Family Law (Family law, including divorce, custody proceedings, establishment of parentage, second-parent adoptions, and name and gender change)

Informational 

• Transgender Law Center legal resources
• NCTE Know Your Rights 

• Queering Reproductive Justice Toolkit (for advocates who work on the intersecting issues of LGBTQ Rights and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice)
• Why trans men, nonbinary, and genderqueer people use birth control 
• Trans-Inclusive Abortion Services (a manual for providers)
• Self-Swabbing is an Affirming and Effective Cervical Cancer Screening Tool
• The Affirmative Couch (for psychotherapists)
• Rights, Respect, and Responsibility Curriculum (sexuality and gender affirming curriculum developed by Advocates for Youth)
• Pronouns practice and interactive website for practicing pronouns

• Colors LGBTQ Youth Counseling Services (offers support for parents of trans young people up to age 24)
• Gender Spectrum (online support groups for parents of trans people)
  
• Transforming Families Los Angeles (support groups for parents and families of trans young people)