Regulatory

• Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordability Act

• Non-Discrimination Laws, State By State, American Civil Liberties Union

• Map: State Health Insurance Rules, National Center for Transgender Equality

Standards of Care

• Advancing Effective Communication, Cultural Competence, and Patient- and Family-Centered Care for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Community, The Joint Commission

• The Standards of Care, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)

• Community Standards of Practice for the Provision of Quality Health Care Services to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Health Access Project 

• Providing Affirmative Care for Patients with Non-binary Gender Identities, National LGBT Health Education Center

• Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Disorders of Sex Development in Childhood, a project of the Consortium on Disorders of Sex Development

• Ethical principles and recommendations for the medical management of differences of sex development (DSD)/intersex in children and adolescents, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine

• Creating Equal Access to Quality Health Care for Transgender Patients: Transgender-Affirming Hospital Policies, Lambda Legal

Barriers and Health Disparities

• Health and Access to Care and Coverage for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals in the U.S.

• LGBTLEP: NOW WHAT? Work Group Handout on Health Disparities from the 7th Annual NCIHC Membership Meeting in Charleston, SC, National Council on Interpreting in Health Care

• Healthy People 2020, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Improving the Health Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Understanding and Eliminating Health Disparities, National LGBT Health Education Center

• Movement Advancement Project

Definitions and Language

• PFLAG National Glossary of Terms 

• An Ally’s Guide to Terminology: Talking About LGBT People and Equality, Movement Advancement Project

• GLAAD Media Reference Guide (including Glossary of Terms)

• Glossary of LGBT Terms for Healthcare Teams, The National LGBT Health Education Center

• Glossary of Terms from DSD Guidelines, a project of the Consortium on Disorders of Sex Development

Culture and Biases

• Which Countries Have Anti-LGBT Laws, Human Rights Watch

• Global Attitudes Survey on LGBTI People

• Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ Issues, Human Rights Campaign

• Implicit Bias Test, Project Implicit

Sensitive Health Issues

• A Guide to Taking a Sexual History, Center for Disease Control

• Gender Affirming Surgery, University of Michigan Health System

• Center of Excellence for Transgender Health

• Intersex Society of North America

• LGBTQ Relationship Violence, The National Domestic Violence Hotline

• LGBTQ Mental Health, The National Alliance for Mental Health

• LGBT Resources, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration

Additional Resources for Trainers

• The Safe Zone Project

• All Children - All Families: Agency Staff Training, The Human Rights Campaign

• National LGBT Health Education Center
  

• The Gender Unicorn

Multilingual Resources for Interpreters

• Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression: Essential Terminology for the Humanitarian Sector (English, French, Turkish, Farsi and Arabic), Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration

• Glosario de términos LGBT para equipos de atención a la salud, National LGBT Health Education Center
  
  
• Glosario de Terminologia LGBTT (Spanish), Lambda Legal
  
  

• LGBTQ Glossary (Chinese, Vietnamese, Burmese, and Korean), Asian Health Services

• ASL for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Daniel Greene

• LGBT Signs, Alexander Leffers

• Interpreting for Trans settings (ASL), David Bar-Tzur

Additional Resources

• Human Rights Campaign

• Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation

• PFLAG (formerly known as Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)

• National Coalition for LGBT Health

• Gay & Lesbian Medical Association

• Intersex Society of North America

• International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex Association

• National LGBT Health Education Center

• Fenway Health

• The Trevor Project

• Comunidad LGBTTTI, Agencia de Gestión Urbana de la Ciudad de México