Resources & Stories
Our Stories
Every June, we turn our attention and love to the LGBTQ+ community at IKAR. For many years we have taken the opportunity during Pride month to hear stories from LGBTQ+ folks and their family members.
IKAR Trans Community and Allies - Resources and Actions to Show Up!
Learn
- Keshet has resources and opportunities to engage in Jewish advocacy for LGBTQIA+ equality.
- Human Rights Campaign, a leading LGBTQIA+ civil rights organization has educational resources and current advocacy opportunities here.
- A Parents’ Guide to Misinformation.
The independent journalists and outlets below are transgender or very trans-competent. You can follow them without subscribing to their platforms, but subscribing will help them continue to do this important work.
- The 19th (particularly Kate Sosin and Orion Rummler)
- The Advocate
- Assigned Media (Evan Urquhart)
- Erin In The Morning (Erin Reed)
- Law Dork (Chris Geidner)
- TransLash Media (Imara Jones)
- NBC Out (particularly Jo Yurcaba)
Engage
- Sign the Keshet Jewish Pledge for Trans Dignity.
- Keshet I’m in a Blue State: What Can I Do? Guide.
- Join IKAR Minyan Tzedek Community Organizing to advocate for SB 59, a CA state bill to protect the privacy of trans people’s gender identity change documents.
- Email [email protected] to get involved.
- Learn more about this bill and other priority bills from Equality CA at EQCA.org.
- Talk to your friends, family, and colleagues to dispel misinformation and share why inclusion and equality for trans people are important values to you.
Follow and Support
ACLU
- Transgender Rights
- Executive Orders Promoting Sex Discrimination, Explained
- Legislative Attacks on LGBTQ Rights 2025
Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE)
- Action Center
- LGBTQ Movement Explainer on the Day One Executive Orders
- President Trump’s Gender Affirming Care Executive Order: What You Need to Know
- President Trump’s Gender-Affirming Care Executive Order: Analysis
- Video of A4TE’s January 2025 Town Hall
- Trans Legal Survival Guide
Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE)
- Trans Youth Emergency Project
- Video of CSE’s February 2025 Town Hall
GLAAD
Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
PFLAG
Situation in California
California Attorney General Rob Bonta reminds hospitals that failing to provide healthcare for trans youth violates California law.
For Trans Youth and their families
QueerKAR: Your IKAR community, clergy and staff are here to support you in getting connected to other IKAR community members, to resources both inside and outside our community and to walk with you as we work together to build the Jewish community and the world we all need, where each of us is free to be our full selves and to live in dignity, safety and love.
JQ International has a variety of support groups for LGBTQ+ Jews and their families.
Keshet offers virtual support groups and resources for LGBTQ+ Jews and their families as well as advocacy opportunities.
Trans Families Support Services is based in San Diego. In addition to peer support, they also do advocacy work for families with trans kids.
Transforming Family is based in Los Angeles and it provides both virtual and in-person peer support meetings, and it has an active message board where parents share information and resources with each other.
TransFamilies is in Seattle. They are undergoing a restructuring at the moment, but they are still providing virtual support group meetings.
PFLAG has a monthly meeting for parents of trans youth.