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Read the short descriptions under each category and get an idea of what social issues our society is confronted with. Click “Read More…” to get further information about each issue.

Table of Contents

• Violence Against Women
• Gender-Sensitive Education
• Medical Treatment for Intersex Children
• Sex Workers’ Rights
• School Life of LGBT Students
• Transgender Legality
• Gay Marriage
• Fatness and Health Care: Women’s Health
• Pedophilia and Sex Offenses

Violence Against Women

• Links
• Battered Women’s Protective Strategies in VAWNET.org :: Good article on how battered women use various strategies to cope with battering, ranging from leaving the scene to confiding to friends. A must read for every single anti-DV, harm reduction support group for battered women and individual who cares.

Gender-Sensitive Education

Medical Treatment for Intersex Children

• Links
• Intersex Initiative, Portland, OR
• Advocates for Informed Choice
• Intersex Society of North America (disbanded)
• Accord Alliance

Sex Workers’ Rights

• Links
• Support Prostitutes’ Rights Now!
• Sex Work 101
• Prostitutes’ Education Net
• Network of Sex Work Projects!
• The Sex Workers Project
• Sex Workers Outreach Project
• list of overseas advocacy groups
• St. James Infirmary :: “offers free, confidential, nonjudgmental medical and social services for female, transgendered, and male sex workers”
• Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation

School Life of LGBT Students

• Links
• Resources for Questioning Youth: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual :: It is on a dating site, but the resources they have on this particular webpage are useful!

Transgender Legality

• Links
• Transgender Know Your Rights Manuals :: Great resource complied by prerna available at No Borders and Binaries, regarding the rights of transgender individuals in employment, housing, immigration, and crime.

Gay Marriage

Fatness and Health Care: Women’s Health

Pedophilia and Sex Offenses