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The Sunday Times Magazine
I'm a features writer on The Sunday Times Magazine writing about the experiences of children with gender dysphoria. I am looking for families (parents and children) to share their stories of discovering and living with gender dysphoria, and seeking treatment. You can remain anonymous if you wish. My email is
katie.glass@sunday-times.co.uk
and my mobile is 07825 723 731. If you want to drop me a line or give me a call I'll be happy to explain more about the article, and see if you would be interested in becoming involved.
Posted 18th October 2011
Channel 4 are looking
for families from Manchester!
Jack Whitehall is coming to Manchester with a new Channel 4 entertainment show and is looking for a local family to stay with. Are you a fun-loving gay couple, proud of your Mancunian heritage? Do you think you can show Jack a good time? Would you be willing to put our host up for the night and show him just how hospitable the people of Manchester really are?
If the answer is yes then we want to hear from YOU! E-mail us at manchester@magnumtv.co.uk with your contact details, a family photo and the reasons why your household is the best! Or call us on 020 7151 0093 and a member of the production team will get back to you.
ALL APPLICANTS MUST LIVE IN MANCHESTER
Developing
gender identity questions
for transgender and non-transgender people
that can be used in monitoring and surveys
We are contacting you about an important research study which will aim to review, develop and test questions that can be used to monitor progress towards reducing discrimination and promoting equality based on gender identity. The project will include transgender and non-transgender people. As an organisation that represents or supports transgender people we would like to discuss with you how to encourage a range of transgender people to take part in the research.
The research is funded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission ( www.equalityhumanrights.com ) and being conducted by the National Centre for Social Research ( www.natcen.ac.uk ), an expert in question testing and development at the national level.
Background
As a result of the Equality Act introduced in 2010, it is expected that bodies such as public sector employers, government departments, local councils, the National Health Service, etc. will be expected to regularly publish data on a wide range of their workforce and service users from April 2011. In order to do so they will need a question, or questions on gender reassignment (gender reassignment is when someone is proposing to undergo, undergoing or have undergone gender reassignment that can be answered by their employees and people who use their services, some of whom are protected in law against discrimination on the basis of gender re-assignment: sometimes known as transsexual people. Such questions will need to be understood and answered by people who are non-transsexual and transsexual.
It is therefore now timely to begin the process of developing and testing robust questions that can be used in surveys and in monitoring by such public bodies.
How could your organisation help?
We would appreciate your help in how we can encourage a range of volunteers who are 16 years old or over to take part in focus groups and individual interviews. This could be by discussing the research with your members; forwarding information to them; advertising the research on your website, in a newsletter, or in your offices or centre, etc. We would be happy to discuss arrangements with you and any ways that we could provide assistance with this. We have attached an information leaflet which provides more information about what would be involved for participants.
The focus groups are planned to take place during January with the interviews taking place in February. We would therefore appreciate if you could get in touch with us as soon as possible.
The aim of the groups and interviews is to explore the acceptability and wording of a set of questions that could be used to capture robust information on gender identity and the transgender population. These questions will need to be widely understood by transgender people and the non-transgender population.
Participants will be given a small monetary gift as a thank you for their time and help. This will be between £10-£30, depending on their level of involvement.
What should you do next?
We would be grateful if you would contact a member of the research team as soon as possible to discuss whether your organisation will be able to help. If we do not hear from you, we will try to contact you in a few days. We will be happy to answer and questions or concerns that you have.
Michelle Gray 020 7549 7069 michelle.gray@natcen.ac.uk
Martin Mitchell 020 7549 7061 martin.mitchell@natcen.ac.uk
If you already know of people who would like to take part in the study, they can register their interest through our secure study website: www.gender-identity-study.co.uk
Alternatively, they can call our freephone number on 0808 168 1326 and leave their name, day and evening phone number and email address. Absolute discretion will be ensured when we get in touch with people and we will not leave messages on answer phones or discuss the nature of the research with third parties.
We thank you for your help and hope to hear from you soon.
Michelle.
Calling Trans-Guys & Girls
ARE YOU TRANSITIONING?
We are making an exciting new documentary series for Channel 4 about transsexual people in transition. No matter what stage, whether you’re MtF, FtM or GenderQueer, we want to hear from you!
Transitioning can be tough and sometimes lonely. We’d like our programme to help in a refreshing, celebratory, non-clichéd way through a unique support network.
If you’re interested in finding out more call Elaine or Rosie on 020 7424 7763, or email rosieo’connor@twentytwenty.tv
All calls / emails are confidential.
Contacting us doesn’t commit you to taking part in the programme but would really help us with our research.
Twenty Twenty Television is one of the UK’s leading independent production companies.Find out more about us at www.twentytwenty.tv
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