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What resources are available at Stonewall Youth?

  • An LGBTQQIA library filled with fabulous books, magazines and movies
  • Referrals for individual counseling
  • Staff people who are trained queer youth advocates.
  • In office computers for resume writing, applying for DSHS benefits, etc.
  • Adult volunteer facilitators who facilitate our weekly support group and provide feedback and support.

General GBLTQQ Resources, Thurston County

Queer/Trans Friendly Health Professionals

Other Counties

Emergencies/Hotlines/Helplines

  • Safe Schools Coalition (anti-bullying, anti-harassment and support for GLBT youth)

    Phone: 1-888-307-9275

    Email: info@safeschoolscoalition.org
    Website: http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org
  • Crisis Clinic (serves Thurston and Mason Counties)

    Phone: 360-586-2800
    Youth Line: 360-586-2777

    Website: www.crisis-clinic.org
  • Foster Care Helpline (for GLBT youth specifically)

    Phone: 1-866-LGBTeen
  • STD Hotline

    Phone: 1-800-227-8922
  • Gay and Lesbian Victim’s Assistance 24 Hour Hotline

    Phone: 1-800-259-1536
  • Trevor Helpline (24 hour suicide hotline for GLBT youth)

    Phone: 1-800-850-8078

    Website: www.thetrevorproject.org
  • Dispute Resolution Center of Thurston County

    Phone: 360-956-1155

    Website: www.mediatethurston.org

Transgender and Gender Resources, Clinics, and Support Groups

  • TransYouth-TransFamilies (psychotherapy for gender variant youth and their families)

    Keylee Marineau, MA

    Phone: (360) 464-7636

    Website: http://transyouthtransfamilies.wordpress.com
    Email: keylee.marineau@gmail.com
  • Talcott Broadhead, M.S.W. (Specializing in serving transgender, genderqueer, gendernonconforming folks)
    Phone: 360-402-0240
    Website: www.talcottbroadhead.com
    Email: talcott.broadhead@gmail.com
  • Gender Alliance of South Sound

    Website: www.southsoundgender.com
  • Outside In – Portland (help homeless youth and other marginalized people move towards improved health and self-sufficiency. Leaders in GLBTQ youth.)
    Website: www.outsidein.org
    Phone: 503-223-4121
  • Ingersoll Gender Center - Seattle

    Phone: 206-329-6651

    Website: www.ingersollcenter.org
  • Tom Waddell Clinic - San Francisco

    Phone: 415-355-7588
  • The Brown Boi Project- Located in Oakland, California
    A community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and our allies committed to transforming our privilege of masculinity, gender, and race into tools for achieving Racial and Gender Justice.

    Phone: 510-931-6440
    Website: www.brownboiproject.org

Internet Resources for Queer Culture, Health and Community:

  • Community United Against Violence
    Their mission is to prevent and respond to violence against and within our diverse LGBTQQ communities. They accomplish this through peer-based counseling, direct assistance, education and outreach, grassroots organizing, and policy advocacy.
  • The Daily Queer News
    Daily headlines from the nation's leading lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender newspapers, mags and blogs.
  • Female to Male International (FTMI)
    Serving the Female-to-Male community. Chapters provide educational activities, support meetings, information, networking and referral services.
  • Forge
    FORGE is a Milwaukee-based, progressive organization whose mission is to support, educate and advocate for the rights and lives of transgender individuals and SOFFAs (Significant Others, Friends, Family, and Allies).
  • Intersex Initiative - Portland
    Portland, Oregon based national activist and advocacy organization for people born with intersex conditions.
  • Intersex Society of North America
    The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female.
  • The Network la Red
    The Network la Red is a survivor-led, social justice organization that works to end partner abuse in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, BDSM, polyamorous, and queer communities.
  • The Northwest Network
    Offers free and confidential support for LGBT survivors of abuse and their friends and families.
  • Original Plumbing
    Documents diversity within trans male lifestyles through photographic portraits and essays, personal narratives and interviews. We feel that there is no single way to sum up what it means to be a trans man because we each have different beliefs, life experiences and relationships to our own bodies.) This is an online resource as well as a quarterly magazine.
  • The Rainbow Center – Olympia
    A virtual community center for Olympia and surrounding communities, serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and allied people.
  • Safe Schools Coalition
    The Safe Schools Coalition is an international public-private partnership in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth, that is working to help schools - at home and all over the world - become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.
  • The Survivor Project
    Dedicated to addressing the needs of intersex and trans survivors of domestic and sexual violence through caring action, education and expanding access to resources and to opportunities for action.
  • TransYouth Family Allies
    TYFA empowers children and families by partnering with educators, service providers and communities, to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected.
  • Youth Guardian Services
    Youth Guardian Services is a youth-run organization that provides support services on the Internet to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning, and straight supportive youth.

Know Your Rights

  • Washington State Public Schools
    These are guidelines constitute OSPI’s interpretation of Washington State anti-descrimination law and are provided to support school districts’ understanding of their obligations under these laws. These issues still come up all the time for youth in our community: importantly, pages 28-30 apply specifically to trans youth and schools.

Books (Stonewall Youth has books for you to read. Just come on in and start reading!)

  • Kate Bornstein: My Gender Workbook and Gender Outlaw
  • Patrick Califia-Rice: Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism
  • Loren Cameron: Body Alchemy: Transexual Portraits
  • Leslie Feinberg: Trans Liberation, Transgender Warriors, Stone Butch Blues
  • Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, Sabine Lang, eds.: Two-Spirit People
  • Suzanne J. Kessler: Lessons From The Intersexed
  • Daphne Scholinski with Jane Meredith Adams: The Last Time I Wore A Dress
  • Riki Anne Wilchins: Read My Lips
  • Jamison Green: Becoming a Visible Man
  • Julia Serano: Whipping Girl
  • List of Queer Books: http://www.queerbychoice.com/choicebooks.html
  • List of Transgender Books: http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/transgender-books/

Queer/Trans Friendly Movie and Book Stores

If you have anything to add to this resource list, please email Emily Pieper at

Non-Discrimination Policy

It is the policy of Stonewall Youth that we will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment, or in the provision of services or benefits, on the grounds of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or other basis prohibited by state or federal law.