For ADMINISTRATORS

Creating Gender Inclusive Schools: A Film

• Created by award-winning filmmaker Jonathan Skurnik of The Youth and Gender Media Project, this film is perfect for any educator, administrator, or parent who is interested in learning how gender unknowingly influences our learning school environments. It's thoughtful teacher/student interactions also shows how children can be teachers, too.

Schools in Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in grades K-12

• A guide for parents, students, educators and administrators who are looking for the best ways to support transgender and gender expansive students in their schools.

• From general information and guidelines to more specific issues, this guidebook will help anyone who is looking for best practices to support their school youth.

Working with Transgender Children and Their Classmates: Just Be Supportive

• This is a research study which documents a school district's well coordinated response to an elementary student's social transition to female. Data analysis included, this article serves as a model for other schools and districts in forming policies to support transgender students.

A Sample Model Policy for Transgender Students on High School Teams

• "All 50": The Transgender Inclusive High School Sports and Activities Policy and Education Project has created a universal standard model in policy and education for transgender inclusion in K-12 sport and activity associations for all 50 states.

Assigning State Assigned Student Identifiers (SASIDs) to MA Public School Students

• DESE procedure to update name changes and gender markers in school records.

Examples of Policies and Emerging Practices for Supporting Transgender Students

• US Department of Education has developed these documents to clarify how schools can best provide a safe, supportive and nondiscriminatory learning environment for all students.

Using the Gender Support Plan

• Produced by Gender Spectrum, this document is a collaborative, written plan for school staff, student and family which documents shared expectations how a student’s gender identity will be supported and managed at school.

• Gender Support Plan template: The purpose of this document is to create shared understandings about the ways in which the student’s authentic gender will be accounted for and supported at school. School staff, caregivers and the student should work together to complete this document.

• Gender Communication Plan template: This document supports the necessary planning for a student to communicate a change in one or more aspects of their commonly assumed gender status with members of the school community. Its purpose is to identify the specific nature of that communication, and to create the most favorable conditions accordingly. The plan identifies the various actions that will be taken by the student, school, family, or other support providers in the process.

How to Develop Policies for Transgender Athletes

• In National Federation of State High School Associations, written by Pat Griffin, this article outlines 6 important steps in why/how school athletic policies can provide equal access for transgender student-athletes.