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Trans Community Conference 2008:
Our Bodies, Our Minds, Our Environments
The Trans Community UK Conference 2008 is a one-day gathering featuring a series of workshops for members of the trans community across the UK. The trans community includes family members, partners and lovers and friends and allies. The conference will celebrate our diversity of identities and knowledge, as well as the different groups, organisations and projects that our community offers.
The conference hopes to set out and 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; and Families and Youth.
It will take place on Friday 4th July 2008 at The Empress State Building, Lillie Road, London SW6 1TR. (Nearest tube: West Brompton)
Registration 1.30pm
2pm – 6pm.
For those who wish to stay there will be a networking opportunity in the snazzy Orbit (the revolving 30th floor) from 6pm – 8pm.
There are 150 spaces available and delegates are asked to commit to one strand for both workshops
TO DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME click here
TO REGISTER click here and e mail it to: transcommunityconference@googlemail.com
PLANNING THE EVENT
This team has conceived, planned and will facilitate the workshops at this conference. In conjunction with Central School of Speech and Drama, Gendered Intelligence has funded a "Developing Facilitation Skills" course so that the team can learn skills and practice their own roles for the day. We hope that this sends a positive message to others that being involved can affect change and you can learn new skills.
FORMING A REPORT AND DISSEMINATING FINDINGS
Conclusions from the day will be used to write a report and will be distributed globally across the trans community, as well as to service providers and voluntary sector organisations. The conference and the report will offer an opportunity to those who need to know more about trans issues as part of their professional practices. For example youth service provisions, sexual health service providers, mental health services, LGBT liaison officers, equality and diversity officers, the police and the Home Office as well as community and voluntary sector bodies etc.
Click here to find out more about last year's Trans with Pride Conference 2007
Report into Bullying around trans and gender variant people
The Anti-Bullying Alliance is keen to ensure that trans people are not being left out of the anti-bullying policies that are being implemented across schools and colleges in the UK.
We were asked us to gather some of the experiences of young trans and gender variant people in and around schools. This report should be available shortly.