Since the recent Supreme Court decision on For Women Scotland vs. The Scottish Ministers and the publication of interim guidance by the EHCR, a number of organisations have changed their policies towards transgender people. Very frequently such policy changes have targeted transgender women specifically. To date this has included the British Transport Police who have
Read More ...GIRES has always valued itself on our unique service, training delivery and has some recently revised ideas. These include core training sessions designed to empower teams with practical knowledge and insights: Introduction to Trans & Gender Diversity Lunchtime Talks (1 hour) — These sessions are ideal for all staff, providing an introduction to trans and
Read More ...LGTB Health and Wellbeing share their Resource PDF. It includes information about what conversion practices are, the effects they may have on people, how best to support them and what support is available, as well as some further resources. This resource aims to help inform anyone who is supporting, or may come into contact with,
Read More ...The recent decision to indefinitely ban the private prescription of puberty blockers for trans youth in the UK marks a profoundly troubling development in the ongoing struggle for the rights of trans people and access to necessary, life-saving and evidence-based healthcare. Every single child and young person should be able to get the care that
Read More ...TRANSforming Futures was a project managed by Stonewall and LGBT Consortium, in partnership with Be:North, CliniQ, Galop, Gendered Intelligence, GIRES, Mermaids, Sparkle, and UK Black Pride. The project ran for six years as a trans-led programme aiming to support trans-led organisations, groups or projects to benefit trans people in England. As an initial step, research
Read More ...NHS England wanted to know our views on the current service specification: https://dmscdn.vuelio.co.uk/publicitem/5f52778e-11de-4945-b58b-762f6520f2c1 What works well and should be retained? What could be improved and should be adapted? What is no longer needed or is not appropriate and should be removed or replaced? They have broken the current service specification into sections and asked for
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