Gender and Family Project

11/26/2025

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Visiting family for the holidays can be an anxiety-inducing affair, but for many of our LGBTQ+ loved ones, a lot can be at stake. Whether it’s fear of being outed, navigating tense conversations from unsupportive family members, or negative family reactions to meeting a partner or spouse, there are a LOT of worst case scenarios to potentially brace for.

While there are countless great articles about how LGBTQ+ people can better handle holiday stress and conflict, few resources share how allies can be part of creating a supportive and inclusive space for their LGBTQ+ friends this time of year.

PFLAG National’s Straight for Equality program has some great tips for how to be an ally to your LGBTQ+ loved ones this holiday season! Check out our resource, How to Ally for the Holidays, today at pflag.org/resource/how-to-ally-for-the-holidays ❄️

11/26/2025

11/25/2025

GFP Community!

Use NF37VEAIGFPROJECT for 10% off NewFest 's Virtual Pass to stream "Niñxs" and other virtual encore films!

"Niñxs" is a vivid portrait and coming-of-age documentary about a young transgender girl in rural Mexico navigating adolescence and transition.

Learn more: https://newfest.org/newfest37-virtual-encore-screenings/

Streaming 11/24 – 12/7 NewFest37 Documentary/Nonfiction Jury Special Mention Fifteen-year-old Karla navigates the turbulence of adolescence while making the life-changing decision to legally transition. Supported by her parents and community yet confronting the prejudices of her rural Mexican town...

11/21/2025

TOMORROW! Reach out for an intake today!

🌟 THIS WEEK: VIRTUAL CAREGIVER GROUP 🌟
Saturday, November 22nd from 10am-12pm Eastern

Our Virtual Caregiver Group is for parents and guardians of transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive youth across the United States and globally. Payment is on a sliding scale; no family will be turned away due to lack of funds.

Fees:
- Groups (monthly) $10-100 sliding scale based on household income
- Intakes (one-time) $10-150 sliding scale based on household income

Families who have attended GFP group or therapy session in the last 6 months do not have to take another intake. Families who have been active with GFP in the last 18 months receive a 50% discount on their intake fee. We will explain the sliding scale during your screening call and allow you to choose the level that works best for your family.

To enroll, email Sanniel at ssanabia@ackerman.org .
For more information, visit genderandfamilyproject.org/support-groups

11/21/2025

🌟 FREE FAMILY THERAPY 🌟
Now accepting clients starting December!

Gender & Family Project (GFP) is offering TEN free, virtual sessions of family therapy to families with transgender, non-binary, or gender expansive youth as part of our Family Engagement and Acceptance Training (FEAT) program. Families will meet with our student clinicians, supervised by a licensed clinical supervisor, with the option to continue sessions using insurance or regular payment.

➡️ Please reach out to Sanniel at ssanabia@ackerman.org with interest ASAP!

To learn more about GFP, head to genderandfamilyproject.org .

11/20/2025

TONIGHT! In honor of 🏳️‍⚧️

⏰ Thursday, November 20th, 2025 from 7:00-8:30pm Eastern
➡️ RSVP*: genderandfamilyproject.org/TDOR-2025

🌟 MEET OUR HEALER 🌟

💗 Jea Frasier, LMSW RYT-200
💗 they, them

Jea Frasier is healing. A proud Black and Trans New Yorker, they are committed to co-creating spaces where healing, repair, and joy are an ever-present possibility. As an ancestor-in-training with a superpower of “feeling their feelings,” they bring their experience of trauma and somatic healing to equity work and are building the future of their ancestors' wildest dreams.

*To ensure a safe, virtual experience for our panelists and attendees, we kindly require an RSVP. A virtual link will be sent out to attendees shortly before the event. If you have any questions regarding this event or RSVP form, please email gfp@ackerman.org .

Please share this event with communities who may benefit.

11/19/2025

Tune in tomorrow on 🏳️‍⚧️

🌟 MEET OUR PANELIST 🌟

💗 Delilah Seligman, LMSW
💗 she, her
💗 New York City Anti-Violence Project, Manager of Training & Outreach

Delilah Seligman, LMSW (she/her) is a multiracial q***r transgender social worker currently based in New York City. She received her BA in Psychology from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT in 2016, followed by her MSW degree from Columbia University in NYC in 2018. Delilah is deeply passionate about enacting sustainable social change for the LGBTQ+ community, particularly the transgender & gender non-conforming (TGNC) community. She works towards these goals through her community education work, in which she facilitates anti-stigma and professional development workshops for those working with the LGBTQ+ and TGNC communities. In her spare time, Delilah expresses herself creatively through music, games, and art, and enjoys spending time with her cat Rusty.

⏰ Thursday, November 20th, 2025 from 7:00-8:30pm Eastern
➡️ RSVP*: genderandfamilyproject.org/TDOR-2025

*To ensure a safe, virtual experience for our panelists and attendees, we kindly require an RSVP. A virtual link will be sent out to attendees shortly before the event. If you have any questions regarding this event or RSVP form, please email gfp@ackerman.org .

Please share this event with communities who may benefit.

11/18/2025

🌟 MEET OUR PANELIST 🌟

💗 Charlie Ferguson
💗 they, them
💗 Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Daniel H. Renberg Legal Fellow

Charlie Ferguson is the Daniel H. Renberg Legal Fellow at Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of LGBTQ+ people and those living with HIV/AIDS. In this role, they use both litigation and policy to protect the fundamental rights of transgender and q***r people nation-wide. Prior to joining Lambda Legal, they were the Director of Housing Work’s LGBTQ+ Youth Clubhouse in Brooklyn, NY.

⏰ Thursday, November 20th, 2025 from 7:00-8:30pm Eastern
➡️ RSVP*: genderandfamilyproject.org/TDOR-2025

*To ensure a safe, virtual experience for our panelists and attendees, we kindly require an RSVP. A virtual link will be sent out to attendees shortly before the event. If you have any questions regarding this event or RSVP form, please email gfp@ackerman.org .

Please share this event with communities who may benefit.

11/17/2025

🌟 THIS WEEK: VIRTUAL CAREGIVER GROUP 🌟
Saturday, November 22nd from 10am-12pm Eastern

Our Virtual Caregiver Group is for parents and guardians of transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive youth across the United States and globally. Payment is on a sliding scale; no family will be turned away due to lack of funds.

Fees:
- Groups (monthly) $10-100 sliding scale based on household income
- Intakes (one-time) $10-150 sliding scale based on household income

Families who have attended GFP group or therapy session in the last 6 months do not have to take another intake. Families who have been active with GFP in the last 18 months receive a 50% discount on their intake fee. We will explain the sliding scale during your screening call and allow you to choose the level that works best for your family.

To enroll, email Sanniel at ssanabia@ackerman.org .
For more information, visit genderandfamilyproject.org/support-groups

11/14/2025

🌟 MEET OUR PANELIST 🌟

💗 Alaina Daniels
💗 she, they
💗 Trans formative Schools, Executive Director & Co-Founder

Alaina Daniels is a white, q***r, neurodivergent, nonbinary trans woman devoted to building a world where trans kids can just be kids who live, learn, love, and belong. After ten years teaching middle school science and s*x ed, co-founding the NYC Trans Educator Network, and co-writing NYC School’s protections for trans kids, Alaina co-founded both Trans formative Schools and Aunties and Friends for Liberation. Their work provides a free joyful afterschool space where over a hundred trans kids have felt safe enough to learn. Moreover, TfS and the Aunties successfully fought the Moms for Liberty on the school board; emboldened NYC to invest a historic $14 million in trans power and care; broke the story that trans youth were losing health care in NYC; organized the largest ever rally for trans youth; and were Grand Marshalls of the NYC Pride Parade. They are opening a trans middle school and seek to catalyze a global movement of liberatory trans-led schoolhouses.

⏰ Thursday, November 20th, 2025 from 7:00-8:30pm Eastern
➡️ RSVP*: genderandfamilyproject.org/TDOR-2025

*To ensure a safe, virtual experience for our panelists and attendees, we kindly require an RSVP. A virtual link will be sent out to attendees shortly before the event. If you have any questions regarding this event or RSVP form, please email gfp@ackerman.org .
Please share this event with communities who may benefit.

11/13/2025

🕯️HOLDING GRIEF AND BUILDING RESILIENCE TOGETHER 🕯️
A Virtual Panel for Families & Allies of Transgender, Non-Binary, & Gender Expansive Youth in Honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance

Hosted by Gender and Family Project in partnership with Lambda Legal, Trans formative Schools, and New York City Anti-Violence Project

⏰ Thursday, November 20th, 2025 from 7:00-8:30pm Eastern
➡️ RSVP*: genderandfamilyproject.org/TDOR-2025

Our community is under attack. How do we grieve? How do we protect our youth?

In honor of , the Ackerman Institute for the Family ‘s Gender & Family Project will host a virtual panel featuring individuals and organizations supporting transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive youth in the New York area. The panel will offer a virtual space for families of transgender and non-binary youth and allies to gather resources, ask questions, and be in community amid rising anti-transgender legislation and rhetoric.

Transgender Day of Remembrance is observed annually to memorialize members of the transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive community lost to transphobic violence, through murder or su***de. Such tragedy can feel overwhelming and terrifying, especially for young people in our community and the adults who support them. Join us in honoring those we’ve lost and learn how to show up and protect our transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive youth during these tumultuous times. In grief and resilience, we are stronger together.

* To ensure a safe, virtual experience for our panelists and attendees, we kindly require an RSVP. If you have any questions regarding this event or RSVP form, please email gfp@ackerman.org .