Support & Links
Avon Trans Women is a support group focusing on Bristol & surrounding areas. It’s a new developing self help group for pre & post operative male-to-female transsexuals and people who are undergoing, contemplating undergoing or have undergone complete male-to-female gender reassignment. They state – The aim is to bring together male-to-female transsexuals & others undergoing…
Suicide is the single biggest killer of young men in the UK. In 2012 there were 5,981 suicides in the UK, of which 77% (4,590) were male (ONS, NISRA, NRS). CALM, the campaign against living miserably, exists to prevent male suicide in the UK. Our helpline 0800 585858 operates every day of the week 5pm…
Our Community Interest Company (CIC) is changing the way Trans and Non-Binary people access gender services in Cheshire & Merseyside. We believe that a new approach is needed that considers all aspects of a person’s journey, providing holistic and bespoke care at every stage. Trans, Non-Binary and Intersex people can now access a free counselling…
Cygnets2Swans is a voluntary group based in East Lancashire that supports transgender people and their partners including those who have or are considering going through gender reassignment. The group supports both Trans women (male to female) and Trans men (female to male) wherever they sit in the Trans* spectrum. Visit the website
Edinburgh Trans Women Support Group launched in 2008 to provide social contact and much needed support to female transexual women The group is aimed at transgender women at any stage of transition or women who are transgendered and live as women full-time, part-time or just questioning their gender identity. Edinburgh Trans Women are based in…
Trans people often experience discrimination – some of this discrimination is unlawful and covered by equality legislation. The Equality and Human Rights Commission provides in depth advice and information on discrimination, legislation and courses of action to take if you feel you are facing discrimination. Visit the website for more information
GIRES fulfils a special role, which differs from that of other groups in its field. It is not a support group, although it does provide help to individual trans people and the members of their families. It is not a political campaigning organisation, although it does provide educational literature to politicians. It does not arrange…
Mermaids is a support group originally formed in 1995 by a group of parents who were brought together as a result of their children’s longstanding Gender Identity Issues. They have supported each other and their children through the difficulties and trauma that gender issues commonly bring to families. They identified a need to form a…
The NHS website that is designed to help put you in charge of your healthcare. The one of the links provided below specifically links to information about Gender Dysphoria however there are other transgender resources on the NHS Choices website, some of which I have listed below. The home pages of the NHS Choices website…
Press for Change provide legal advice, training, and research to trans people, their representatives, and public and private bodies. Press For Change has regularly worked with Government on the Employment regulations 1999, the Working Group 2000, the Gender Recognition Act 2004, and the Equality Act 2010 along with the Government’s latest Transgender Action plan in…