Join Parents of Trans Youth for the Houston premiere of the documentary Adam’s Apple at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival!

Adam’s Apple
🗓️ Saturday, October 3, 2026 | 12:30PM
📍 Rice Cinema
⏰ 98 minutes
🎟️ Tickets are $15 + fees (Use code "PTY26" for 25% off)

Adam's Apple is an intimate, collaborative documentary told through the dual perspectives of Adam, a transgender teen, and his mother, visual artist Amy Jenkins, offering an authentic and tender counterpoint to the hostility facing trans youth today. Adam’s journey balances the milestones of gender transition with the rhythms of adolescence. As Adam asserts his identity and steps out into the world, his parents grapple with the challenges of raising a teen while learning to let go. Through a visually poetic approach, the film transforms a deeply personal archive, collected over two decades, into a powerful, joyful testament to the beauty and difficulty of reckoning with profound change.

Parents of Trans Youth is a community partner for the screening and will have an info table at the event. The film's consulting producer, Amy Hobby, will also be in attendance.

Rice Cinema is located on the ground floor of Susan and Fayez Sarofim Hall on Rice University Campus.
➡️ Entrance #8 via University Boulevard and Stockton Street
➡️ Google map link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/tSXjwAim7mav8bDe9
➡️ Parking is $5 in the surrounding lot, and there's street parking on the weekends in the neighborhood right across the street from Rice (but watch out for no parking signs!).

Presenting organization Houston Cinema Arts Society celebrates its continued legacy of CONNECTING THROUGH CINEMA, amplifying Houston as a premier city for Fine Arts, telling untold stories regionally and beyond.

For more information about Houston Cinematic Arts Festival, click here.

Join Mandy Giles and KB Brookins for a live conversation about KB's memoir, Pretty, winner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction. Written by a prize-winning young Black trans writer with outsized talent, Pretty is a fierce, disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.

The event will include a reading by the author, fireside chat with Mandy Giles, and audience questions.

How to join:

Step 1 - ✍️ Click the button below to get access to the Zoom registration.

Step 2 - 📚 Buy the book to get the most out of the event! Buying through  👉this Bookshop.org link 👈 benefits independent bookstores and Parents of Trans Youth at no extra cost to you.

Step 3 - 🗣️ Show up live on September 29 and be ready with your questions for KB! (Recording will be available for members of the Parents of Trans Youth online community only.)

KB Brookins is the author of three books, including Pretty, winner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction. They are an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Santa Clara University and the creator of Trans News That Doesn’t Suck, a digital series that has amassed over 8,000 Substack subscribers and 1 million+ views across Instagram and TikTok.Follow KB online at @earthtokb.

The holiday season is almost here! Lots of joy, lots of family, and lots of … challenges. How do you navigate this time of year with a transgender child?

Join Mandy Giles and therapist Kristen Berglund, MA, LPC (she/her) of B Well Counseling Center and KB Wellness for our FREE online workshop “Navigating the Holidays with Trans Kids” on Monday, November 3, at 6 PM PT/8 PM CT.

In this lively session, we’ll discuss how families of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse kids can navigate the holiday season with less stress and more joy. (who doesn’t want THAT??)

We’ll touch on topics specific to our trans kids, and you’ll walk away with strategies and best practices to increase our mental health during the holiday season.

Kristen and Mandy both have trans young adults, so they’ll be sharing info from both personal and professional perspectives.

This interactive workshop will be 1 hour and 30 minutes on Zoom. (Recording will be available for members of the Parents of Trans Youth online community only.)

It’s designed for parents and caregivers of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse kids who are curious about how to support their child during the holiday season.

Click the button below to register.

Human extraordinaire Rebecca Minor will be talking with us about her groundbreaking new book, "Raising Trans Kids: What to Expect When You Weren't Expecting This."

Raising Trans Kids is for every parent, grandparent, caregiver, and ally who wants to show up with love, clarity, and courage for trans kids everywhere.

How to join:

Step 1 - ✍️ Click the button below to get access to the Zoom registration.

Step 2 - 📚 Buy the book to get the most out of the event! Buying through  👉this Bookshop.org link 👈 benefits independent book stores and Parents of Trans Youth at no extra cost to you. If it's still backordered, you can also get it from All She Wrote Books, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon.

Step 3 - 🗣️ Show up live on October 30 and be ready with your questions for Rebecca! (Recording will be available for members of the Parents of Trans Youth online community only.)

Rebecca Minor, MSW, LICSW (she/they), is an internationally recognized gender specialist, therapist, educator, and author. She is the founder of Prism Therapy Collective and serves as adjunct faculty at Boston University’s School of Social Work. You can find her as @gender.specialist on Instagram.

The Trans Youth Emergency Project of the Campaign for Southern Equality will host an online youth and parent support session on October 5 at 5:30 pm CT / 6:30 pm ET led by mothasistah™ of blaq noyz, LLC and Mandy Giles of Parents of Trans Youth.

This free session will be 1 hour and 30 minutes on Zoom and will not be recorded to protect confidentiality. Registration is required, and requests are approved manually.

Click the button below to register!

The Trans Youth Emergency Project helps families navigate the complex and exhausting maze of accessing gender-affirming care for youth, offering logistical and financial support. Their team provides 1-on-1 custom patient navigation services to unimpacted providers and supports families of transgender youth with travel grants.

The Gender-Free Haircut Club is coming to Houston on October 5!

At this signature event of the Dresscode Project, hairstylists and hair salons provide their talent and space to give gender affirming haircuts to queer/trans/nonbinary/gender-nonconforming identifying humans (all ages!) at no cost.

Gender-Free Haircut Club → October 5, 12-4pm
📍 Cutthroat Barbers, 1508 Westheimer Road (Montrose location)
✂️ Fresh cuts • 🌈 Queer joy • 💥 No labels

Parents of Trans Youth will be on hand with info and goodies!

Email info@dresscodeproject.com to book an appointment.

The Dresscode Project helps train and educate hairstylists and hair salon owners to create gender affirming hair spaces so folks who identify within the queer communities can get haircuts that make them look the way they feel.

The Trans Youth Emergency Project of the Campaign for Southern Equality will host an online youth and parent support session on July 20 at 6:30pm ET led by mothasistah™ of blaq noyz, LLC and Mandy Giles of Parents of Trans Youth.

This free session will be 1 hour and 30 minutes on Zoom and will not be recorded to protect confidentiality. Registration is required, and requests are approved manually.

Click the button below to register!

The Trans Youth Emergency Project helps families navigate the complex and exhausting maze of accessing gender-affirming care for youth, offering logistical and financial support. Their team provides 1-on-1 custom patient navigation services to unimpacted providers and supports families of transgender youth with travel grants.

Join us for a review of the US vs. Skrmetti ruling, its immediate impact, and considerations for the future. This info session is for caregivers, parents, and families with transgender children, as well as mental health providers.

Panelists include:

- Mandy Giles, a parent advocate in Houston, Texas, who has spent years supporting families of trans youth and testifying against anti-trans bills. Mandy is also the founder of Parents of Trans Youth.

-Larissa Godfrey-Smith, therapist and founder of Godfrey-Smith Counseling in Washington, DC. Larissa has over a decade of experience working with transgender and queer folks of all ages, both in private practice and community mental health settings.

-Shelly Skeen is an attorney and South Central Regional Director for Lambda Legal. She has worked with transgender people across the country to ensure that they have identity documents that match who they are, and also works with Texas law schools, nonprofit organizations, and law firms to educate them about how to safely obtain accurate identity documents on behalf of their clients.

Tickets are free, but donations are appreciated. All proceeds will go to Parents of Trans Youth, Lambda Legal, and the Godfrey-Smith Counseling Trans Refugee Fund.

Join me on June 29 at 6pm at The Feisty Collective in the Houston Heights for an interactive workshop on turning allyship into action!

This session is for anyone ready to:
💥 Move from intention to impact
🧠 Listen, unlearn, and grow
💖 Support the LGBTQ+ community with purpose and empathy

​📍 1901 Lawrence St., Houston, TX 77008
🆓 Free to attend | All are welcome

Come be part of the change and leave with real tools to show up and stand up.💪

Join us to 🏳️‍⚧️Craft & Chill🏳️‍⚧️ at The Feisty Collective!

Feelin’ fretty about Skrmetti? Come relax and craft with us!

🗓️ Thursday, June 26, 4-6pm
📍 1901 Lawrence Street, Houston, TX 77008
🎟️ Free to attend | All are welcome

Co-hosted by:
Parents of Trans Youth
Trans and Gender Queer Social Houston
Triple A Alliance