Document: Medical care for gender variant young people: Dealing with the practical problems (PDF, 100KB) B.W.D. Reed, P.T. Cohen-Kettenis, T. Reed, N. Spack December 2008 The english text from the paper published in Sexologies Volume 17, Issue 4, October–December 2008, Pages 258–264 GIRES takes a keen interest in the medical care offered to gender variant
Read More ...Creating Employment Opportunities In Sefton, Merseyside, a volunteer project is helping transgender men and women become a valued part of the workforce, develop new skills and gain self-esteem. This helps to counteract depression and the many health issues associated with isolation, unemployment, poverty and poor housing. We hope that before long similar initiatives will spring
Read More ...Background It has been postulated that gender dysphoria is associated with self eroticism in trans women. Moser’s article below demonstrates that their autogynephilic experiences are no different from those of other women. Article by Charles Moser, PhD, MD Autogynephilia, an erotic interest in the thought or image of oneself as a woman, has been described
Read More ...Environmental Pollution Issues GIRES is aware of the mounting evidence that unusual development of sex characteristics and in sex ratios at birth in the animal and human populations may be associated with environmental pollution. The scientific discussion of this issue continues. A recent article, It’s Time to Learn From Frogs, in the New York Times provides
Read More ...The paper, Atypical Gender Development (PDF, 276KB), was published in the International Journal of Transgenderism in 2006, based on the work of a group funded by the Kings Fund. The paper is under limited copyright to The Haworth Press Inc, Binghamton, New York, the Publisher of the Journal. It may be used only by the signatories
Read More ...Document: Gender Variance (Dysphoria) (PDF, 148KB) GIRES supports the right of individuals to live according to their true gender identity, rather than one imposed upon them at birth. Definition Gender variance is an atypical development in the relationship between the gender identity and the visible sex of an individual. In order to understand this atypical development,
Read More ...The Act Under the Gender Recognition Act, trans people who experience severe gender variance, and have medical treatment for the condition, may apply to the Gender Recognition Panel (GRP) for a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC). The GRC then entitles them to recognition of the gender stated on that certificate “for all purposes”. The application process
Read More ...GRA Section 22(1) There are several ways in which a trans person may become involved with solicitors, either acting for them or for somebody else, in perhaps parental rights issues, resolution of property ownership or employment matters. For people holding a full Gender Recognition Certificate any information provided to solicitor is in an official capacity
Read More ...Under the United Kingdom Gender Recognition Act, trans people who have a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and can evidence having lived continuously in role for two years, may apply to the Gender Recognition Panel (GRP) for a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC). The GRC then entitles them to recognition of the gender status recorded on that
Read More ...Prepared by Terry Reed OBE, JP, BA (Hons), MCSP, SRP, GradDipPhys New Guidance Issued 7th August, 2015 In specified circumstances, section 22(4) of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 permits the disclosure of what would otherwise be “protected information” about an individual who has applied for a Gender Recognition Certificate. The effect of section 22(4)(e) is
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