Social Media Groups

These groups are private and confidential.  You ask to join and get a series of questions to answer,  they are welcoming to parents of all areas of acceptance. Click on the name to be taken to their page.

Essays

Organizations

  • Oklahoma’s Equality Center - OkEq seeks equal rights for LGBTQ+ individuals and families through intersectional advocacy, education, programs, alliances, and the operation of the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center.  Serving LGBTQ+ Oklahomans and their allies since 1980, Oklahomans for Equality is home to a diverse, vibrant, and engaged community of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons, knowledgeable staff, and dedicated volunteers.
  • D’Amore Mental Health recognizes that mental health issues in youth LGBTQ is serious and may result from a lack of awareness and support within communities. They've created a resource page to educate families, schools, and communities on mental health issues they’re faced with and ways in which they can support them.
  • Gender Health Training - Founded in 2019, GHTI supports professionals seeking to take the journey of becoming gender-affirmative providers for transgender / gender expansive children, youth, and their families, as well as for couples and families where one or more partners are trans.
  • Canyonwalker Connections - where faith and scholarship intersect exists to repair the division that exists between social and Christian conservative and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community through education, training, and dialogue in both secular and religious environments.
  • Freedheart Moms - FreedHearts reaches into hurting communities with a message of love, inclusion, belonging, and hope —for parents, LGBTQ, educators, therapists, for the church. We have a worldwide network of thousands of MamaBears and PapaBears—but we are so much more! FreedHearts is in the trenches, providing safe spaces, inspiration, and encouragement. We have dynamic, transformational live, print and film resources to reconcile faith, families, and communities—to free hearts that change the world.
  • Embracing the Journey - Greg and Lynn McDonald are parents, best friends, and co-founders of Embracing the Journey as an outgrowth of their family’s personal journey associated with having a gay child.
  • Reformation Project - As a Bible-based, Christian organization, The Reformation Project's mission is to advance LGBTQ inclusion in the church.
  • Q Christian Fellowship - We are a diverse community with varied backgrounds, cultures, theologies and denominations, drawn together through our love of Christ and our belief that every person is a beloved child of God.
  • The Trevor Project - Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.
  • PFLAG - Founded in 1973 after the simple act of a mother publicly supporting her gay son, PFLAG is the nation's largest family and ally organization.

Podcasts & YouTube

Stories and Blogs from the International Group of Christian Mothers of Transgender Kids

Science & Medical Links