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Find help in Austin & Texas

Support, information, and people who will pick up the phone.

Need to talk to someone now?

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — call or text 988, press 3 for LGBTQ+ youth support. 24/7.

The Trevor Project — 1-866-488-7386, for LGBTQ+ young people. 24/7.

Texas Youth Helpline — call 1-800-989-6884 or text 512-872-5777. 24/7, for any young person in Texas and their family. Not a reporting hotline.

Trans Lifeline — 1-877-565-8860, peer support by and for trans people. Mon–Fri, 12–8 PM Central.

LGBT National Youth Talkline — 1-800-246-7743. Mon–Fri 1–10 PM Central, Sat 11 AM–4 PM Central.

In Austin & Central Texas

PFLAG Austin support meetings — free, confidential, and open to everyone. The shortest path to talking with people who have been where you are.
Out Youth ↗ — (512) 419-1233. Central Texas LGBTQ+ youth and allies, plus training and resources for parents, teachers, and community members.
2-1-1 Texas — dial 2-1-1 from anywhere in Texas for free, confidential referrals to health, housing, legal, counseling, transportation, and disaster relief services. Available 24/7, multilingual, accessible by TTY/TDD.

Across Texas

Equality Texas ↗ — works for full equality for LGBTQ+ Texans through political action, education, and community organizing.
Transgender Education Network of Texas ↗ — TENT works to further gender-diverse equity in Texas through social, legal, legislative, and corporate education.
Texas Name and Gender Marker Change ↗ — a closed Facebook group where people share instructions and firsthand experience of changing a name and gender marker in Texas.
Hatch Youth ↗ — Houston’s longest-running social group for LGBTQIA+ youth ages 7–24, a program of the Montrose Center. (713) 529-0037.

Legal help for Texans

These organizations take questions from Texans and work on cases affecting our community here.

Lambda Legal ↗ — the oldest and largest national legal organization working for LGBTQ+ civil rights and the rights of people living with HIV.
ACLU LGBTQ Rights Project ↗ — constitutional law and civil rights experts. The ACLU of Texas tracks state legislation.
National Center for LGBTQ Rights ↗ — legal helpline at 1-800-528-6257, Mon–Fri 9–5 Pacific. Custody, separation and divorce, immigration and asylum.
Transgender Law Center ↗ — information about laws affecting trans people: employment, health care, civil rights, family law, and identity documents.
Trans Legal Services Network ↗ — help navigating name and gender marker changes and other legal matters.
GLAD Law ↗ — litigation and policy advocacy against discrimination based on gender identity and expression, HIV status, and sexual orientation.

For parents & families

Come to a meeting — you are not behind, and you are not the first.
Publications and booklets — PFLAG’s guides for families, including titles in Spanish.
Serendipitydodah ↗ — a long-running resource collection written for parents of LGBTQ+ children.

Looking for national organizations? PFLAG National maintains those, and keeps them current so we don’t have to.

Know an Austin or Texas resource that belongs here, or spot a link that no longer works? Tell us — this list is only as good as the people who help us keep it current.