Safe Zone: Any faculty or staff member with the “Safe Zone” sign displayed in their workspace is committed to learning about LGBTQ+ issues and challenging homophobic and heterosexist behaviors.
University Counseling Services: If you want to talk with someone confidentially about issues you’re experiencing, this is the place to go!
Center for Diversity & Inclusion: The CDI is an office dedicated to helping create a campus environment supportive of all students and their identities. They provide individual student support, as well as, programming and events centered around identity, equity, and social justice. Located in Baldwin Hall 109.
Prism: Prism is a student organization dedicated to incorporating values of diversity, appreciation of LGBTQIA+ culture, and the reverence of acceptance nationally and on Truman State University’s campus.
TruTrans: TruTrans is a student organization seeking to provide additional support to the transgender community on Truman’s campus.
Student Advisors: Student Advisors are always willing to listen, provide advice, or help you find resources if you need them.
Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN): This organization works to end bullying and support GLBTQ and ally youth in school settings
Safe Schools Coalition is another group that works to prevent bullying and create a safe environment for all of our children.
School Bullying: to report it in Missouri – School Violence Hotline
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a wonderful resource for legal problems you may encounter. They help people with safe schools, anti-bullying, and generally can give advice on your rights in various situations.
Campus Pride Index: Free online tool allows prospective students, families/parents and those interested in higher education to search a database of LGBTQ+ friendly campuses who have come out to improve the academic experience and quality of campus life.
The Trevor Project: Suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ youth
866-488-7386 (866 4-U-TREVOR)
International Association for Suicide Prevention:
The Family Acceptance Project™ is the only community research, intervention, education and policy initiative that works to decrease major health and related risks for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth, such as suicide, substance abuse, HIV and homelessness – in the context of their families. We use a research-based, culturally grounded approach to help ethnically, socially and religiously diverse families decrease rejection and increase support for their LGBT children.
genderspectrum: Gender Spectrum helps to create gender sensitive and inclusive environments for all children and teens.
TransHealth article from UCSF 4/11
All Mixed Up: Madeline H. Wyndzen, Ph. D., a transgender professor of psychology, discusses her personal experiences with gender dysphoria and critiques the mental illness model of “gender identity disorder”.
National Center for Transgender Equality : The National Center for Transgender Equality is a national social justice organization devoted to ending discrimination and violence against transgender people through education and advocacy on national issues of importance to transgender people.
The Advocate: An online magazine providing timely information that is relevant to the LGBTQ community in areas such as Politics, Arts & Entertainment, Business, Health, Society, etc.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a wonderful resource for legal problems you may encounter. They help people with safe schools, anti-bullying, and generally can give advice on your rights in various situations.
PROMO: Missouri’s statewide organization advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality through legislative action, electoral politics, grassroots organizing, and community education.
The Fenway Institute: Its goal is to enhance the well being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and all people in our neighborhoods and beyond through access to the highest quality health care, education, research and advocacy.
Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) this organization works to end bullying and support GLBTQ and ally youth in school settings
Safe Schools Coalition is another group that works to prevent bullying and create a safe environment for all of our children.
School Bullying: to report it in Missouri – School Violence Hotline
HeartStrong: A truly unique organization solely for students from religious educational institutions who are struggling with feeling that they are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
Believe Out Loud: The Collegiate Churches of New York and Intersections International works to show that you can be Christian and support the equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
