Gender Spectrum is a Bay Area-based non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

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 whose mission is to create more gender-sensitive and -inclusive environments for all people, including especially gender non-conforming and transgender

Transgender

Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....

 youth. Gender Spectrum provides education, resources, and structured training sessions for families and institutions. Gender Spectrum's work has been covered by National Public Radio in All Things Considered's Two Families Grapple with Sons' Gender Preferences piece and This American Life's Somewhere Out There and featured on KQED

KQED-FM

KQED-FM is an NPR-member radio station owned by Northern California Public Broadcasting in San Francisco, California.KQED-FM was founded by James Day in 1969 as the radio arm of KQED Television. The founding manager was Bernard Mayes who later went on to be Executive Vice-President of KQED TV and...

's Forum.

Since 2007 Gender Spectrum has sponsored a national annual conference, Gender Spectrum Family, for families with gender non-conforming, gender variant and transgender children, adolescents, and teens. The 4th Annual Gender Spectrum Family Conference took place September 3–6, 2010 in Berkeley, California, USA. The documentary I'm Just Anneke from Award-winning filmmaker Jonathan Skurnik was screened at the 2010 conference.

External links

• Gender Spectrum Education and Training, organization website
• Family Acceptance Project