This is another long one sorry...
I've submitted Dorset Healthcare University. There's very little on the website but they seem to have their fingers in a lot of Trans pies. This one has sickened me.
National charity LGBT+ Network for Change has praised Dorset HealthCare’s Steps2Wellbeing service for its success and sensitivity in providing help for LGBT+ patients. And this learning will now be shared with a human rights organisation in Rwanda to ensure LGBT+ people there receive the support they need.
Link out to chest feeding info at La Leche, 'Trans men, trans women and non-binary individuals may choose to breastfeed or chest feed their babies further information available at...'
They're a member of LGBT+ Voices Dorset Forum which thanks Stonewall and Mermaids for their input.
CAMHS page on gender identity - 'Some people feel uncomfortable with the gender they were assigned at birth... '
'If you are referred to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), the team there will talk to you about the nature of your gender identity and how you feel, and if it's applicable, about your wishes for physical intervention.'
The Trust staffs 'Over the Rainbow' - an NHS Initiative for the local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) community'
'Not to be confused with the drag queens and kings that keep us company with our booze cruise Saturday nights, Gender Identity Dysmorphia (GID) is a term used to acknowledge a persons dissatisfaction with their biological gender... Affecting men women and children, GID can present itself in many different ways.'
Young Rainbows - on Over the Rainbow website
In 2008, the Young Rainbows Project (funded by the Terrence Higgins Trust) produced two pocket-size sexual health guides...
Young Rainbows Project is a peer led sexual health project for guys who like guys between the ages of 13 and 19 (!) in and around Dorset. Supported by Over the Rainbow (NHS LGBT drop-in centre) in Bournemouth and Terrence Higgins Trust. Young Rainbows no longer exists but the guides are still available here.
From the girls' guide - (I'll eat my hat if this wasn't written by a man):
The vagina is part of the female reproductive system, which is very different to the male. Firstly, all the reproductive system is inside the body, rather than dangling between your legs!
During sex, girls can orgasm like just guys can (oddly, in the guys guide, it doesn't say that men can orgasm just like women)
You may have heard of a term used before called female ejaculation. This can happen when a women orgasms but it doesn’t happen to all women and don’t worry if you don’t – you can still have a pleasurable sex life! Female ejaculation is basically a fluid that comes from a gland and is usually clear and odourless but don’t worry, it’s not you losing control of your bladder and peeing! Women who ejaculate can produce anywhere from a teaspoon to many tablespoons of liquid!
Over the Rainbow links out to Space Youth Project - part-funded by Nat. Lottery and Children in Need
Space Youth Project uses 'trans' as an umbrella term for those who are transgender, non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid, agender, are of non-Western gender identities and those who have a trans history.
Mel is Space's Education Volunteer! She is a fully qualified teacher with over 20 years of experience, devoted to bringing LGBT+ inclusivity into the classroom. She offers workshops for education professionals on how to start that conversation with students.
With KS1 children, Mel uses picture books to talk about the fact that families can be different but still share the same love.
She gets KS2/3 children talking about gender and how we shouldn’t feel pressured to behave in a particular way because of it. She also uses picture books to introduce what it’s like to be transgender and talks about homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic bullying and how to stop it.
Mel also offers staff training; 1:1 support for schools with a transitioning child; and year group assemblies on the theme of inclusivity for all ages.
Over the Rainbow also links out to Hopes Angels.
No age range specified - seems to be a few blokes in frocks wanting to 'offer support' to others. From their safeguarding policy. 'Children Act 1989 and 2004: Provides a framework for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.' - so I assume they would 'offer support' to children. Their safeguarding officer is a bloke in a frock.
Over the Rainbow is for all ages with a specific young person section. But it's all very colourful and jolly and it would be possible for a child to link up with some potentially dodgy fuckers via the available signposting. I picked out Space Youth Project and Hopes Angels but there is a lot of other stuff on there.
Oh and the Trust does let trans people into the accommodation of their choice.