A Way of Seeing

Useful Resources

Here are some websites I found particularly useful during my discovery of self and the transgender person inside. There are many more about the LBGT communities in the UK and all over the world. Some countries still treat the LGBT community with total disrespect and vilification.

Gender Identity Research and Education Society. This is a great starting point as the site contains a wealth of information relating to issues around gender and identity.

I have been involved with GIRES for several years. I revamped their website with the help of another website designer.

Along the way, I became part of a team putting together A Legacy of Kindness project. This important project aims to record the history of GIRES through the voices of those from its inception to the present. During that process, I filmed 15 people who are or were integral to GIRES during its formation, as well as those currently running the charity.

As part of LGBT+ History Month in February 2023, I edited the 15 hours of footage into a 40-minute film, which was shown at the Cinema Museum in London on 28th February 2023. Here is your opportunity to see this film for yourself. It is titled Voices: Recording Trans History for the Future.

GIRES has added a copy of my article, “Supreme Court Ruling: An Enigma,” to their website home page under the link “A personal view”, it is already available on the blog under the post, GIRES Response to the Supreme Court Ruling/Update on Equality and Human Rights Commission for Code of Practice consultation.

Mermaids for Young People. For teenagers and children who are having identity issues.

A Way of Seeing on YouTube. This is my channel where I have several videos relating to the book and some of my experiences being trans. Most other trans people are younger, in their 20s and 30s, so have an advantage over us oldies. They have YouTube and loads of information at their finger tips because of the web. I didn’t have this resource.

Teal Swan on YouTube. Teal Swan has for me been a wonderful reflection. She has recorded many videos over the last few years and I watch most of them. She has one about being transgender that I found particularly useful.

My Genderation on YouTube. My Genderation was set up by Fox Fisher & Lewis Hancox (two transguys) to make films about individuals and events on the trans spectrum, for a much wider audience.