Gendered Intelligence

Creative workshops

In 2006 we ran a performing and visual arts project with a group of young trans people from across the UK, which explored their understandings of the relationships between sex, gender and science. This culminated in a multi-media exhibition at Central School of Speech and Drama, London in June and a short documentary film of the project was made.

The 35-minute film further explores the central question: What's the Science of Sex & Gender? And it was taken along with other resources and stimuli into non-trans settings to further our investigations into sex and gender.

This documentary is available to watch as part of our trans awareness training. The Sci:dentity Project's aims were to increase engagement with medical and biomedical knowledge of what female/ male sex is, to develop and extend creativity and expression and to establish a forum for discussion.

The project was funded by the Pulse Awards Scheme as part of the Wellcome Trust's 'Engaging Science' Grants Programme. Access to this project was provided free of charge to each young person who participated.

For a copy of the evaluation reports click below

Other publications about the Sci:dentity project are:

To order a free hardcopy of Creative Encounters

"I am more interested in gender politics. I read about it more and I am more interested and I actually make contributions. Like I talk to friends about it at school, I tell people, I kind of educate people about it 'cos people at my school are a bit ignorant about it and I explain a lot and they understand things a lot better. So my friends are interested in stuff, issues... about the Gender Recognition Act." (Participant)

"I would like to pass on my most sincere thanks and appreciation for all the time and effort you and all of your team went to facilitate the Sci:dentity project. It has made such an effort to [X] in terms of increased confidence and self esteem, a degree of self-awareness and a feeling of fitting in somewhere at last. It has also brought me some peace of mind regarding his future." (Parent of Participant)

"I've done more performance stuff, I have written other songs, and I recorded the song I did for Sci:dentity and it is now my GCSE music course work. I have made music for myspace and I am going to put it on there". (Participant)

"It's made a huge difference because before I came to the project I was really quiet ...I would sit at the back of the class and never said a thing, even asked I wouldn't dare say a thing in front of people. Now... if I have an opinion about something I don't really care whether anyone thinks it's right anymore, I just think well, it's my opinion..." (Participant)

Trans Community Conference 2008

was held at Metropolitan Police on Friday 4th July 2008. A great day was had with approximately 137 delegates and a team of 10 facilitators running our 4 Strands. The conference set out to tackle some of the key issues in the areas of:

Body Positivity and Sexual Health
Mental Health and Emotional Well Being
Asylum and Trans People
Families and Youth

This conference was planned, facilitated and run by members of the trans community for the trans community. The trans community includes family members, partners and lovers and friends and allies. We also welcomed others whose professional backgrounds and interests are relevant to trans lives.

The day was captured in a report.

The conference was funded by Awards for All

"The conference was extremely well organised from advertising to application to receiving info. Welcome was very friendly – all very efficient and professional" (delegate)

"[I enjoyed] incidental conversations, networking, the diversity of the attendees" (delegate)

The Trans with Pride Conference 2007

was hosted by Transfabulous on Friday 15th June 2007. 150 members of the trans community and allies from across London, different regions of the UK and beyond gathered at Oxford House in Bethnal Green, London.

The four strands were:

The Workplace: Towards a Healthy, Happy and Inclusive Working Environment
Trans Health: Choice
Visibility: Safety and Education
Private Spaces: Family, Friends and Lovers

Invited guests included Kate Bornstein, Jameson Green, Ignacio Rivera and Christine Burns

The day was captured in this report.

We run projects where trans people can meet one another and talk about what it's been like for them.
Gendered Intelligence deliver creative workshops and arts programmes using various stimuli and resources to generate discussion and debate around gender and the ways in which it presents challenges in our everyday lives.
The aim of the conference is to bringing trans people and professional services together to create dialogue and form partnerships that will benefit the trans community.
Gendered Intelligence offer trans awareness training as part of a person's own Continuing Professional Development.