References for Parents

4th Wave Now
A community of people who question the medicalization of gender-atypical youth. 

Beyond Trans
Beyond Trans offers funding for therapy and provides free therapeutic programs to people who feel distressed or ambivalent about their transition.

Biological Integrity
Biological Integrity is a reliable medical resource on the topic of gender dysphoria for parents, teens, physicians, schools, and policymakers. It is a Project of the American College of Pediatricians.

Child & Parental Rights Campaign
As a non-partisan, nonprofit public interest law firm, the Child & Parental Rights Campaign, Inc. was founded to respond to a radical new ideology overtaking families and threatening the well-being of children and the fundamental right of parents.

Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender
A group of concerned Democrats, who are shifting the narrative by exposing the failure of Gender Medicine. 

Doctors Protecting Children
A group of pediatricians, medical organizations, and policy organizations have signed a declaration urging a stop to the promotion of harmful interventions on children with gender dysphoria.
View and sign their declaration protecting children. 

Do No Harm
A diverse group of physicians, healthcare professionals, medical students, patients, and policymakers united by a moral mission: Protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology. They believe in making healthcare better for all—not undermining it in pursuit of a political agenda.

Environmental Progress
WPATH Files

FAIR
Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism: Overcoming Identity Politics. Promotes a common culture of Fairness, Understanding, and Humanity.

Gender Dysphoria Support Network
The Gender Dysphoria Support Network (GDSN) is an international group that aims to offer support to families of individuals affected by gender dysphoria. International parent support group information and other resources are available.

Genspect
Genspect is an international organization that promotes a healthy approach to sex and gender. Their team includes professionals, trans-identifying people, detransitioners, and parent groups who campaign for high-quality care for gender-related distress. They advocate for a non-medicalized approach to gender diversity.

Parents around the world are speaking 

LGB Alliance USA
Leading the fight for same sex rights. 

LGBT Courage Coalition
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults concerned with pediatric gender medicine and the censorship of dissent.

Moms for Liberty
Moms for Liberty welcomes all that have a desire to stand up for parental rights at all levels of government.

Our Duty
Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology.

Paradox Institute
The Paradox Institute believes that the denial of the two sexes is one of the fundamental issues of our time. It has never been more important to have an educated public on how sex differences impact individuals and society. Understanding the sexes is critical for psychological health, social relationships, accurate medical research, correct reporting of crime statistics, fairness and safety in sports, and ultimately, the health of our societies and the continuation of our species. Learn more about how affirmation care harms children and teens and much more.

Parents of Desisters
Represents an international group of parents whose children are desisters. Desisters are people who previously identified as transgender but who came to terms with and learned to accept their biological sex before subjecting their bodies to hormonal or surgical interventions.

Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT)
PITT is a space for parents who have been impacted by gender ideology to share their uncensored stories, experiences, and thoughts while remaining anonymous to protect themselves and their families. Their objective is to inform the public about the devastating impact of gender ideology on families through their personal experiences.

Partners for Ethical Care
Partners for Ethical Care is a secular, non-partisan, all-volunteer, grassroots nonprofit organization comprised of individuals from across the globe. Their mission is to raise awareness and support efforts to stop the unethical treatment of children by schools, hospitals, and mental and medical healthcare providers under the duplicitous banner of gender identity affirmation.

Post Trans
Post Trans is a project that aims to give visibility and support to female detransitioners. Read a collection of detrans stories from female detransitioners and desisters.

PragerU Kids
Educational, entertaining, pro-American kids content for every grade.

Protect Women’s Prisons
FAIR has launched a comprehensive advocacy campaign aimed at addressing the critical issue of male inmates being housed in facilities meant exclusively for females.

Restore Childhood
A national nonprofit (501c3) founded to protect children from governmental overreach in health and education. They believe that parents are the best advocates for their own children, so we empower parents with educational tools and research on critical issues to create a healthier future for their children.

Rethink Identity Medicine Ethics (ReIME)
ReIME supports the rights of minors and young people to explore identities, including sexualities and genders, that are developmentally appropriate. They believe the standards of care and treatment protocols for this vulnerable population should be informed by well-researched and evidence-based best practices for addressing complex developmental and dysphoric issues related to identity and the body on an individual, case-by-case basis.

ROGD Boys
Information about boys with Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria

ROGD Repair  
ROGD Repair is a course for parents that begins where other resources end, combining the psychology and communication tools you need.

Sex Change Regret
Sex Change Regret provides evidence, resources, and support for those considering detransitioning. This organization’s website states, “Up to 20% have regrets about their ‘sex change.’ Sex change procedures are not effective, say researchers. Ten to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate is 20 times that of comparable peers. Regret is NOT rare.”

Sex Matters
A human rights organization that believes sex matters in law and in life.

Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM)
SEGM is an international group of clinicians and researchers concerned with the lack of quality evidence for the use of hormonal and surgical interventions as first-line treatment for young people with gender dysphoria. Their aim is to promote safe, compassionate, ethical, and evidence-informed healthcare for children, adolescents, and young adults with gender dysphoria.

Staying You
‘Staying You’ advocates for understanding and empowering girls and women struggling with their identity to accept themselves in the unique body they have. 

Stop the Harm
The Stop the Harm Database catalogs sex change treatments performed on minors throughout healthcare facilities in the United States.

The Cass Review
Following four years of careful study of roughly 9000 children who received treatment at the Gender Identity Development Services at the Tavistock in London, the Cass Report is finally finished. The independent review of data came to the same conclusion as every other independent review: there is insufficient evidence to justify the use of medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria.

The Transition Justice Project
The Transition Justice Project helps connect detransitioners and others who have had negative effects of gender medicine to connect with legal assistance.

Themis Resource Fund
This fund connects detransitioned plaintiffs to legal resources. 

Therapy First (Formerly GETA)
Therapy First, formerly GETA, is a non-profit professional association of over 300 mental health providers worldwide who view psychotherapy as the appropriate first-line treatment for gender dysphoria. They aim to support psychotherapists working with gender dysphoric children, adolescents, and young adults in providing high-quality, evidence-based mental healthcare and to offer public education on mental health and psychotherapy.

Thoughtful Therapists
This group from the UK and Ireland has come together with a shared concern about the impact of gender identity ideology on children and young people.

Transgender Trend
Transgender Trend, an organization based in the UK with no religious or political affiliation, is comprised of parents, professionals, and academics. They believe that there is “no reliable scientific basis for the diagnosis of transgender, nor long-term research on the outcome of treatments. Setting children off on a path toward medicalisation with irreversible lifelong effects is an experiment which has no precedent.”

Women Are Real
This website supports women. They say, “We are women—Liberal, Moderate, and Conservative—who believe that sex still matters in daily lives of women and girls.”
Women deserve dignity and safety in sports, locker rooms, prisons, and shelters.
When anyone can self-identify into women-only spaces, these spaces are no longer single-sex.
Trans-identified people must have civil rights, such as protection from housing and employment discrimination, but those rights need not come at a cost to women’s safety and dignity.

Women’s Declaration International (WDI)
WDI is a group of volunteer women from across the globe dedicated to protecting women’s sex-based rights. The Declaration of Women’s Sex-Based Rights reaffirms women and girls’ sex-based rights and challenges discrimination from the replacement of the category of sex with that of “gender identity.”

XX-XY Athletics
The only athletic brand that stands up for women’s sports. It’s about truth, fairness, safety & equality.