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https://www.hcplive.com/view/suicide-risk-reduces-73-transgender-nonbinary-youths-gender-affirming-care - This article explains that transgender youths have high rates of poor mental health compared to their cisgender peers, but suicide risk is decreased by 73% for transgender youth who receive gender affirming care.

https://5calls.org/issue/transgender-lgbtq-rights-trump-eo/ - This website makes it simple, easy, and fast to contact your representatives. After inputting your zip code, it gives you the contacts for your house and senate representatives. This links in particular shows you how to "Oppose Efforts to Dehumanize Transgender and LGBTQ+ People."

https://indivisible.org/groups | Indivisible is a movement of more than a million members taking consistent action to resist the GOPs agenda, elect local champions, and fight for progressive policies. Input your zipcode and find groups near you to join!

https://resist.bot/ | Resistbot is a chatbot that turns your texts into faxes, postal mail, or emails to your representatives in minutes.

MoveOn is a community of grassroots activits around the country mobilizing for progressive change. The website shows multiple ways to get involved, including a map that shows upcoming events.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8099405/ - This systematic review gathered data from a total of 27 studies, which studied 7,928 patients who had gender affirming surgery. Only 1% of patients regretted their surgery, an incredibly low number compared to other major surgeries (knee replacement surgery has a regret rate of 15%).

https://www.brook.org.uk/blog/5-sobering-stats-about-trans-young-people/ - This article shares sobering statistics about trans youth, including the fact that 46% of trans people have thought about taking their own life.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-historians-are-documenting-lives-of-transgender-people - This article offers a short education of transgender people throughout history with beautiful photographs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XNLtBcYu8Q - This is a beautiful video interview from 1937 with a transgender man.

https://egale.ca/awareness/common-myths-and-misconceptions-about-trans-youth/ - This article debunks common misconceptions about transgender youth, focusing on five in particular.

https://transhealthproject.org/resources/medical-organization-statements/ - This page shows statements from 30 leading medical organizations in the United States (representing over 1.3 million doctors) that recognize the medical necessity of treatments for transgender people, endorsing gender affirming treatments.

https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/14054/Study-Transgender-teens-at-higher-risk-of-violence?autologincheck=redirected - This study shows that transgender teenagers are at higher risk of sexual assault, bullying, violence, and suicide compared to their cisgender peers.

https://www.hcplive.com/view/mortality-rate-higher-transgender-people - Using data compiled from the last 5 decades, this analysis shows transgender individuals have a significantly higher mortality rate when compared to cis men and women.