“Parenting a gender-variant child is challenging not because there's anything wrong with the child but because of how they are perceived, how our parenting skills are perceived, and how our morality is perceived.”
Gloria — parent
Volunteer Opportunities
Gender Spectrum is committed to creating a more supportive world for people of all genders. We do this by increasing awareness and understanding of the normal range of gender variations found in everyone, and by providing education and support to families raising gender variant, gender non-conforming, gender-fluid, crossgender, and transgender children and adolescents.
Outreach/Public Relations Volunteers
We are looking for outreach volunteers to assist us in increasing national awareness of our annual conference and other programs. We need volunteers with strong writing skills and knowledge of gender variant and transgender issues, especially as they pertain to children and youth. We seek people with a professional manner and a strong interest in supporting this work. Your role will involve establishing connections with pediatricians, local community centers, therapists and others to inform them of our agency programs, services, and resources. Excellent phone and writing skills are a must.
Our programs: We provide seminars, workshops, trainings and one-on-one consultations for schools, therapists, parents, teachers, health providers and others. We produce the Gender Spectrum Family Conference, the first-ever national conference for families of gender variant and transgender children, now in its second year. In affiliation with Children's Hospital Oakland and Seattle, we hold monthly support groups for parents of gender variant children in California and Washington: we plan to add groups in more locations over the next five years.
Please send a resume or letter of interest detailing your skills and experience to our Managing Director at manager@genderspectrum.org.
Learn more about the Gender Spectrum Family conference.
Web Tech Volunteer
We are seeking a Volunteer Web Technician to help us maintain a professional Internet presence as we add features and interactivity to the Gender Spectrum and Gender Spectrum Family web sites.
This position requires fluency in HTML and CSS, strong development skills, and an eye for quality control. Knowledge of PHP and/or Javascript is strongly desired. Solid content management abilities are a strong plus, as is access to Internet Explorer.
Projects for the Web Technician will include:
- Create interactive web forms
- Style our online store’s CSS to match our main web site
- Create and post streaming audio and video files for our site
- Assist in conversion of our current sites from table layout to CSS
To apply, please send a resume or letter of interest detailing your skills and experience to Cresdan Maite, M.P.A., Managing Director, at manager@genderspectrum.org.
Learn more about the Gender Spectrum Family conference.