Resources for trans students
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Galop
Advocacy, advice and support for LGBTQ+ people who have experienced abuse, domestic violence, hate crime, and ‘conversion therapy’
Galop
LGBT Health and Wellbeing
Helpline, counselling and community groups for LGBTQ+ people in Scotland
LGBT Health
Switchboard LGBT
Free confidential helpline offering emotional support for LGBTQ+ people
0800 0119 100
LGBT Youth Scotland
Education, advocacy and community groups for LGBTQ+ young people
LGBT Youth Scotland
Exhale
Creating space for QTIPOC+ (Queer, Trans and Intersex People of Colour) to dream, explore and connect in Scotland
Exhale
Terrence Higgis Trust Scotland
Sexual health and HIV testing, advice and support
THT
Scot-Pep
An LGBT+ inclusive charity providing advocacy, collective power building and monthly meetings for sex workers in Scotland
Scot-Pep
House Ball Scotland
Signposting, mutual aid, community and collective power building for QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Intersex, Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) in Scotland
House Ball Scotland
What is LGBTQ+ ?
LGBTQ+ stands
for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transsexual,
Queer or Questioning, plus. The "plus" is inclusive of other groups,
such as asexual, intersex, genderfluid, non-binary and many more.
It is not that we're new. It's that you've naturalized our disappearance and now
we're in these public spaces that we weren't allowed to be in for decades. We're actually
showing you what love looks like in public.
Alok Vaid-Menon (they/them) is a South Asian gender non-conforming and transfeminine person. Born in 1991 in
Texas, US.
LGBT+ History Month
LGBT+ History month is celebrated in the UK every February. The overall aim of the month is to promote equality
and diversity for the benefit of the public.
History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people
make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative
realities.
Marsha P. Johnson was a transgender activist who participated in the Stonewall Uprising and fought for equal
rights. Born in New Jersey, US. 1945 - 1992.