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14/11/2025

🏳‍⚧ Trans Awareness Week is an important moment, but it also highlights a difficult reality that many trans+ people face throughout the year.

Trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse people are often expected to carry the responsibility of educating others about their lives, identities, and experiences, while also having endless resilience and patience.

This expectation can be exhausting and unfair, especially in a climate where trans visibility comes with risk as well as pressure.

At GIRES we believe that building awareness about trans lives should never rest solely on the shoulders of trans people themselves. Everyone benefits from clear, accessible, evidence-based information that deepens understanding and supports inclusion.

That is why we are rebuilding the GIRES website. Our aim is to create a trusted, accessible resource that individuals, families, professionals, and organisations can turn to, so that trans+ people are not left constantly having to explain or defend their existence, and can just focus on living their lives - being visible, or not.

To help us develop the most beneficial and accessible website, we are reaching out for input from anyone who uses our current website.

We have created a short 5 minute survey to help us understand what the trans+ community, those who support them, and our professional partners need from the new site.

Your insight will help us shape our new website to better support trans+ people and increase public understanding - while lightening the burden on trans+ people to provide constant information and education.

You can read more and take the survey here:

🔗 tinyurl.com/GIRESWebSurvey

14/11/2025

I cannot recommend this training enough. Well worth a trip to London and the course facilitators are supportive and encouraging. Really helpful if you are working Gender Diverse people and young people...

Don’t miss your chance to join our last “Working Alongside Trans, Gender Diverse and Questioning People” training session for 2025!

Our specialist two-day course for therapists and counsellors runs 2-3 December—places are still available, but hurry - it’s very popular!

This two-day course has been created in response to demand for more in-depth and specialist learning from therapists and counsellors themselves, and to the need of the wider trans community for a pool of trans-knowledgeable therapists and counsellors to draw on.

Find out more and sign up today: https://genderedintelligence.co.uk/services/79-working-alongside-trans-gender-diverse-and-questioning-people

14/11/2025

14/11/2025

Neurodivergent Rebel latest book "the weight of normal" explores the weight of having to fit into the 'nornal' or rather neurotypical expectations as a neuroq***r person. This causes traumatic-invalidation for so many people through masking and can even cause PTSD through a lifetime of being missed,misunderstood and judged.

Their book is available now to reorder digitally and details can be found here 👇

This week has been amazing!

Earlier this week I sent the files for my next self published book (The Weight of Normal) to my distributor (Draft2Digital), and today I just signed the contract for my next collaboration project (being put out by a publisher).

My self-published title (The Weight of Normal) is currently available for limitled eBook pre-order (as the print versions require more approvals before they’re distributed) - I will add a link in the comments.

Get it here: https://books2read.com/Weight-of-Normal

If you’re interested in self-publishing, and sign up using my link it helps this blog (and me to write more books): https://www.draft2digital.com/NeurodivergentRebel

I start working with my collaborator on our next project in December (all materials for that one due to the publisher in May)… more info on that one coming soon!!!

At first I was sad/angry that my consulting business was under attack by the anti-DEIA (Diversity, Equality, Inclusion, Accessibility) movement sweeping the U.S., but now im grateful its pushing me towards my childhood goal of writing and publishing books.

I wouldn’t have had time and energy to take on these projects if this change hadn’t been pushed on me… and now that I’ve pivoted, I’m excited to see what happens next!!!

Watch this space, many amazing things are coming!

14/11/2025

Are you a young trans person or the parent or carer of a gender diverse young person?

Do you want to have your voice heard on youth gender identity services?

The James Lind Alliance are researching people’s experiences of youth gender identity services. They are surveying young, gender-diverse people and their parents, caregivers, and families.

Find out more, and fill in the survey: https://www.jla.nihr.ac.uk/priority-setting-partnerships/youth-gender-diversity -81636

11/11/2025

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Some people live like they’re trying not to break. Andrea Gibson lived to feel every crack.

They came into the world with a voice that refused to hide. Through years of poetry and performance, they gave language to what so many of us couldn’t say out loud. Their work was a home for anyone who had ever felt too tender, too q***r, too alive for the world around them. Andrea wrote about love and loss and identity with such raw honesty that it could stop you in your tracks.

That line about not wanting to get out without a broken heart feels like the truest reflection of how they lived. They didn’t want to slip quietly through life. They wanted to be changed by it, marked by it, shattered and remade by love. Even as they faced cancer, Andrea kept writing and performing, turning pain into something luminous. Their poems about illness and mortality never begged for pity. They were full of gratitude, awe, and a steady reminder that beauty and sorrow often share the same breath.

When Andrea died earlier this year at forty nine, the world didn’t just lose a poet. It lost a voice that had taught so many people how to stay soft in a world that can be cruel. Yet in a way, they kept their promise. They left this life scattered into a thousand heavens, their words still flying through every person who ever heard them.

Andrea Gibson’s work reminds us that the goal isn’t to survive untouched. It’s to love so deeply that you can’t help but be changed. It’s to let the breaking be proof that you were here and that you lived all the way through.

10/11/2025

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The UK Establishment Just Set Trans Rights Back. Here’s What You Need to Know

In April 2025 the UK Supreme Court ruled that for the purposes of the Equality Act a man and a woman are defined by biological s*x.

It might sound like legal jargon but the real-world impact is massive. This means trans people who have legally changed their gender may now be treated as their birth s*x when it comes to services, spaces, and legal protections.

This isn’t just a technicality. It opens the door to exclusion from toilets hospital wards sports clubs jobs and public life. It sets a legal precedent that strips away the right to be recognised and treated as who you are.

But this didn’t come out of nowhere.

For over a decade the UK media has dehumanised trans people. Tabloids outed individuals. Newspapers like the Guardian gave space to anti-trans talking points disguised as debate. The EHRC is no longer independent. Labour has backed the ruling. Keir Starmer’s government has enabled it.

This is not an accident. It is a campaign.

Groups like the LGB Alliance have one goal: cut the T out of LGBTQ. The EHRC board is stacked with their supporters. Right-wing lobby networks like Tufton Street are driving the agenda. Public figures like JK Rowling and Róisín Murphy are amplifying misinformation while profiting off their own use of gender pseudonyms.

It’s part of a global pattern. Similar rulings have passed in Hungary Russia and parts of the US. These are the early signs of fascism. It begins with telling a group they do not exist. Then it strips them of recognition and rights. Then it tells everyone else to stay quiet while it happens.

But trans people are not going quietly.

On 19 April thousands marched through London. Protests are rising across the UK from Parliament Square to Orkney to Wales. Trans people have always existed. They re-emerged after Na**sm. They will survive this too.

What happens now depends on all of us.

Speak up. Share this. Ask your MP how they voted. Call out media lies. Fund independent journalism. Support trans people in your workplace school and community. Don’t be silent. Silence is compliance.

This ruling is not clarity. It is cruelty in legal language. It is erasure disguised as fairness. It is a betrayal of dignity.

But it is not the end.

We resist. We remember. We rise.

Trans people first. Who’s next? Women? Gay people? Jewish people? Black people?
If Reform is coming we all need to fight this. Now.

08/11/2025

November 8th marks Inters*x Day of Remembrance.

The date marks the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a notable French Inters*x person who lived from 1838 to 1868.

Inters*x Day of Remembrance is a day to remember those who are no longer with us and highlight issues that the Inters*x community face.

We stand in solidarity with our Inters*x siblings, team members and supporters!

*xDayOfRemembrance *x *xSolidarity

03/11/2025

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