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Consumer information on housing and real estate.

Automotive consumer information.

Find out about community services in Vancouver and surrounding areas that offer programs and services for trans, non-binary, and two-spirited people.

Learn how to be an ally to the transgender people in your life by consulting the resources in this guide.

There are many excellent organizations in Vancouver and surrounding areas that can help to answer your legal questions, some of which are even able to provide free or low-cost legal advice (including legal representation in some instances) to low-income residents. For a comprehensive list of such organizations across British Columbia, check out Clicklaw's Resource List for Legal Help. Below are some options available to Vancouver residents.

The purpose of this page is to provide links to the most current legal rights, laws, and policies gained by the trans community. 

The library has resource books, both circulating and reference, about discussion groups and which provide everything from "how-to" information on recruitment, organization and leadership to suggested reading lists and even favourite recipes.

Information about the VPL's books club sets

Learn about gender diverse individuals by reading their words. Find suggestions below for memoirs, poetry, graphic novels, zines, spirituality, and fiction of every type by people who are trans, non-binary, two-spirit, or elsewhere along the gender spectrum.

Two-Spirit is a term commonly used in North America to refer to Indigenous individuals with diverse gender identities and sexual orientations - it also has specific usages and contexts beyond being used as an umbrella term for assorted queer Indigenous identities. Although the term itself is rather new - having been proposed in 1990 as a replacement to the outdated anthropological term, "berdache" - there is a much longer tradition among some First Nations groups of acknowledging the role that these individuals have within their communities. Learn more about what it means to be two-spirit