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- Channel 4 are airing a new series following a group of people identified as trans.
- GIRES has given its 2011 award to the committee responsible for the new (7th) edition of the Standards of Care, published by WPATH
- Bernard & Terry Reed's presentations at Cardiff LGBT Summit are available to watch online.
- Broken Rainbow have a vacancy for a trans-identified person to receive calls from their domestic abuse hotline.
- The Skills Funding Agency and GIRES have published "Research into Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Equality in Adult Learning"
- GIRES has prepared guidance for public authorities on how best to meet their obligation under the specific equality duties to collect information on gender identity.
- The London Olympic Games are looking to recruit everybody, having made a commitment to equality. Click here for the flyer.
- The West London Gender Identity Clinic Satisfaction Questionnaire is currently open to online participation
- February is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History Month
- QWEST conference in September
- Western Boys and FTM Network have been amalgamated into a single charity called QWEST
- Glasgow LGBT Survey
- Call for Contributions, Special Issue of Feminism & Psychology
- All Wales Hate Crime Research are seeking people to take part in their survey
- GIRES welcomes the announcement that the BBC Radio iPM New Year's Honour goes to Penny for her work supporting trans people
- LSIS Workshop – Promoting gender equality.
- Gender Recognition Panel calendar for the New Year
- GIRES congratulates the recipients of its 2010 awards
- Survey for LGB&T students to inform Education Policy
- Opportunities for employment for trans people in Olympic games
- GIRES congratulates Barbara Ross on receiving an OBE for her many years spent improving the lives of trans people.
- GIRES Response to "Importance of teaching: The Schools" White Paper
- Gender Recognition Panel calendar to the end of the year
- Updated information on Prevalence in the UK
- LGBTQ Sexual Health Services Survey
- Application for London 2012 volunteers closed
- Updated to v3.0 advice for those transitioning at work
- Report on the Society's AGM 2010
- Glossary of terms revised.
- Figures to 31th August from the Gender Recognition Panel
- TCrime.net - Report transphobic crime in confidence
- Tranzwiki.net - Directory Of Trans Support Services
- GIRES Presentation at the Plenary session of the LBGT Health Summit September 2010
- EHRC Report: Public bodies and the public sector duties relating to transsexual and transgender people
- Transgender equality—free e-learning resource.
- Congratulations!! GIRES Trustees awarded OBE for services to charity.
- Latest news from NHS GID service for youngsters
- Transequality launched: legal help for all trans people
- Trans Media Watch added to websites giving information
- Gender Recognition Panel calendar for this year
- RAF pilot transition no “big deal”
- Job opportunies for trans people in the National Census
- Sefton's Transgender Volunteer Project to find jobs for trans people
- British Endocrine Society meeting 2010 Report on treatment for young people
- Making youth groups a safe and welcoming place for young trans people
- Updated Combating Transphobic Bullying: Toolkit for Schools
- Subscribe to Government Equality Office LGBT Newletter
- Gender recognition panel has a new address for correspondence
- Rights and Responsibilities Consultation to close 28th February
- Updated guidance on change of identification documents
- DSCF publish “Guidance for schools on preventing and responding to sexist, sexual and transphobic bullying”
- BSPED has published its amended statement on care of gender variant youngsters
- NUS survey of violence agains Women Students
- British Museum LGBT Exhibition Opens
- Update Obligations of solicitors under the Gender Recognition Act
- Update US hate crime legislation including gender identity now law
- Pacific Center for Sex and Society announce new website
- Josie Romero, the eight-year-old ‘sex change girl’
- A girl on Friday, a boy by Monday
- Published: Parliamentary Forum – Guidelines for Commissioning
- Highlights of the Charity's work this year
- Notes and pictures of this years AGM
- Transgender representations in the media survey.
- UK Transgender Quality Of Life Survey – Your input still needed
- New GIRES Booklet: ‘Lower surgery for trans women’
- Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, to commence offering suspension of puberty
- Revised Statement from the Gender Recognition Panel about lost Certificates
- GRA Section 22 Statutory Instrument 2005 635
- My secret self
- I've felt like a boy for a long time
- New GIRES Booklet: ‘Lower surgery for trans men’
- Updated: Trans service users' rights available.
- Conversion factors for trans endocronology
- Low down on progesterone
- Updated: Parliamentary Forum – Guidelines for Commissioning
- Should trans men have a hysterectomy?
- European Commssion publish paper on Human Rights And Gender Identity
- Effects of Diethylstilbestrol on Gender
- Updated: Definition and Synopsis of the Etiology of Gender Variance
- Updated: Sample treatment consent forms to download
- Accommodation of trans people and gender variant children in the hospital environment
- Figures to 30th June from the Gender Recognition Panel
- GIRES confirms view that treatment of pre-existing marriages under the GRA is neither reasonable or proportionate
- Possible loss of state pension benefits for trans people entering civil partnerships
- State Pensions and trans people
- Effects of Environmental Pollution on Gender
- A model for the demographics of trans people in the UK
- GIRES presents five papers at WPATH Symposium in Oslo
- GIRES announces research award for 2009
- Consultation: Non-statutory Guidance under the Equality Bill
- Consultation: EU Article 13 Equal Treatment Directive
- Trans Equality Index - participation sought
- Consultation: “Amendment of Medical and Social Care Guidance”
- ID Cards Secondary Legislation Impact Assessment Published
- Gender Variance in the UK:Prevalence, Incidence,Growth And Geographic Distribution
- Endocrine Treatment of Transsexual Persons
- Sample treatment consent forms to download
- Link to NHS Choices
- Procter & Gamble bars trans discrimination
- Dr Richard Curtis's announcement regarding the care he provides at the London Transhealth Clinic
- Research article on autogynephilia in genetic women
- GIRES website chosen for the British Library archive.
- Interpretation of the current governent position on marriage anullment to obtain a GRC.
- Initial report on the English and Scottish local authorities' policies towards trans people.
- “Harsh Realities“ – Study into victimisation of trans pupils.
- Australian Human Rights Commission report on the legal recognition of sex in documents and government records
- Service Personnel and Veterans Agency Policy for Trans People.
- The Gender recognition Panel rule that Interim Certificates cannot be renewed or extended.
- Violence Against Women - Home Office would like your views.
- Early Look at DSM-V – opportunity to contribute to the debate.
- GIRES receives encomium from Independent Examiner
- Identity and Passport Service FAQ on the effect of national Identity Scheme on trans people
- Positive workplace transition experience reported
- EHRC Three year strategic plan– comments requested
- Stonewall Scotland and Scottish Transgender Alliance have produced an excellent guide for employers
- Updated to v2.0 Advice on court processes and rights of transsexual parents
- MOD Policy For The Recruitment And Management Of Transsexual Personnel– give us your views
- National Identity Scheme proposals– give us your views
- The Transgender Child - A Handbook for Families and Professionals, by Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper; Cleis Press Inc.
- EHRC expound their concerns about the Gender Recognition Act but forbear from taking any action.
- At last EHRC formally recognise at that Gender Identity comes within their remit. New wikipedia entry.
- Added link to Trans Youth Network
- Delaying puberty could help gender-confused teens—New Scientist.
- Restructured material on treatment of gender variant youngsters
- Kate Craig-Wood, a member of GIRES Executive committee wins the NatWest everywoman Demeter award
- Medical care for gender variant young people—GIRES article in latest edition of “Sexologies”
- BBC News article about early treatment for young trans people
- BAPRAS warns of burdens to NHS of cosmetic surgery tourism
- “Gender Troubles“—Article in Australian Doctor
- New Department of Health document—Bereavement guide for trans people.
- Notes on 2008 AGM and group picture
- New page giving more information about the breadth of the Charity's work.
- New Department of Health document—Trans: A practical guide for the NHS.
- Male transsexual gene link found
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