Transgender Awareness Week Resources
This week is Transgender Awareness Week, so we are sharing some resources about working with and supporting people who are transgender.
- Age UK: Transgender Information and Advice Transgender information and advice | Age UK
- Age UK: Safe To Be Me – Meeting the needs of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people using health and social care services – Resource Pack pdf (ageuk.org.uk)
- Manor Community: LGBT+ Learning Materials LGBT Training (manorcommunity.co.uk)
- Skills for Care: Confident with difference Short Films: Confident with difference (skillsforcare.org.uk)
- Dimensions: Someone in my team is transgender (easy read) Someone-in-my-team-is-transgender-easy-read.pdf (dimensions-uk.org)
- BBC News: The challenges of being transgender over 60 The challenges of being transgender and over 60 – BBC News
- Community Care: Social work with transgender people podcast Social work with transgender people (communitycare.co.uk)
- Mind: About LGBTQ+ Mental Health About LGBTIQ+ and mental health – Mind
- National Housing Federation National Housing Federation – How to be a trans ally?
- Mencap: You being you – your gender and sexuality (short film) You being you: Your gender and sexuality – YouTube
- Switchboard: LGBT people with learning disabilities– easy read report EASY-READ-LGBT-People-with-Learning-Disabilities.pdf (switchboard.org.uk)
- British Association of Social Workers – Position Statement on Social Work with Transgender People BASW Position Statement on Social Work with Transgender People | www.basw.co.uk