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Helpful Trans Organisations

Gender Trust
BM Gentrust
London
WC1N 3XX
Helpline: 01305 269222 (7pm-10pm, answerphone at other times)
Offers help and support for those with gender dysphoria, partners, families, carers and allied professionals.
Has a membership Society and produces a magazine.

Beaumont Trust
BM Charity
London
WC1N 3XX
Information Line: 01582 412220
Helpline: 0700 287878 (Tues & Thurs 7pm-11pm, answerphone at other times)
Offers advice and support to transvestites and transsexuals.

Press for Change
BM Network
London
WC1N 3XX
Organisation campaigning for the rights for those with gender dysphoria.

Mermaids
BM Mermaids
London
WC1N 3XX
Helpline: as for Gender Trust (callers will be put in touch with Mermaids)
Supports children and teenagers who are trying to cope with gender identity issues, and their families and carers.

Northern Concord
PO Box 258
Manchester
M60 1 LN
A self-help group for transvestite and transsexual people, especially male-to-female.

FTM Network
BM Network
London
WC1N 3XX
Helpline: 0161 432 1915 (Weds 8pm-10.30pm)
Offers advice and support to male-to-female transsexual and transgendered people, and to families and professionals.

Manchester Lesbian & Gay Foundation
Unity House
Pritchard St
Manchester
M1 7DA
Helpline: Gay/Lesbian 0161 235 8000
Inner Enigma: support group for Trans people. Contact via helpline.
Offers support and counselling to all members of the gay, lesbian and transgendered community, by gay, lesbian or transgendered counsellors.

References & Resources

Morgan, D.H.J., Gender: Teaching Papers in Sociology. (University of Manchester).

Bell, S., Kate Bornstein: A Transgender Transsexual Postmodern Tiresias. An interview with Kate Bornstein (Internet).

Davies, D. & Neal, C., Pink Therapy. (Open University Press, 1996)

Bornstein, K., Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us. (London, Routledge, 1984).

Bornstein, K., My Gender Workbook (London, Routledge, 1998)

Lewins, F., Transsexualism in Society: A Sociology of Male to Female Transsexuals. (Melbourne, Macmillan, 1995)

Garber, M. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (Penguin, 1993)

Turner, R., Transsexual: Still in the Closet. (Counselling Journal, August 1999)

Di Ceglie, D., Atypical Gender Identity Development. (Young Minds Magazine, 1999)

Miller, N., Counselling in Genderland: A Guide for You and Your Transgender Client. (Different Path Press, Boston, 1996)

Morris, J., Conundrum (London, Faber & Faber)

Cossey, C., My Story (London, Faber & Faber)

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