Welcome to the GSCC KnowledgeBase
This is a companion intranet to the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center's main website, lgbt.wisc.edu.
If you notice something out of date or missing, please contact lgbtq@studentaffairs.wisc.edu.
Coming out
When you’re ready to tell that first person about your sexual or gender identity – or any people anytime – give yourself time to prepare. Think through your options and make a deliberate plan of who, what, why, and how.
Read through advice and other people's experiences in our collection of documents about coming out.
Trans health and resources
University Health Services and Mental Health Services collaborate with each other and the GSCC on a social transition model with the goal of offering straightforward and supportive transition care.
Our GSCC website has frequently asked questions about transition care.
In this KnowledgeBase, you can browse health documents related to transition.
Inclusive practices
Learn about ways to help people valued, supported, and given equal opportunities to participate.
Identities 101
Learn more about different gender and sexuality identities.
In the classroom
Information about inclusive practices, asking for demographic information, and how to make welcoming spaces for TGQ (trans gender-queer) students.
Browse resources about supporting students in the classroom.
Healthy relationships
We believe in consent in all things, a politic and practice of the skill and joy of setting and honoring boundaries in all parts of our lives. Boundaries in friend, work, roommate, and dating relationships are all part of a culture of consent!
Check out these resources for some expansive perspectives on how to ‘do’ relationships, communication, and more. Some of these documents also include negative examples, like how to spot an abusive relationship.
Top Documents of the Week
- World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care
- I ask for consent
- Bisexuality Basics
- I ask for digital consent
- I ask how power impacts consent
- Frequently asked questions: Intersex identities
- Informed consent for hormone therapy for feminizing hormones
- UW–Madison SHIP sexual reassignment surgery benefit
Most Recently Updated Documents
- Peer Mentor Handbook (2020 version)
- KnowledgeBase home page
- World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care
- Discussion questions for healthy relationships
- Social Transition Model: Collaborating to serve trans students
- Informed consent for hormone therapy for masculinizing hormones
- Informed consent for hormone therapy for feminizing hormones
- Two Spirit Resource Directory