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INTEGRATING CARE FOR TRANS ADULTS SURVEY ) An ongoing project, Integrating Care for Trans Adults (ICTA), in partnership with the Open University and the LGBT Foundation, is reaching out to groups within the transgender, including non-binary, and wider LGBTQ+ community, asking them to complete an initial survey. The ICTA project is looking at how trans, including non-binary, people have experienced healthcare in the UK – at any point in time. It wants to know how to best integrate the care they receive from Gender Identity Services and the rest of the NHS. The project will be gathering these personal experiences through the survey and then through further one-to-one (online) interviews with participants.
TRANS CAN SPORT ) Trans Can Sport, a group providing safe and friendly fitness and leisure activities for trans folk in Brighton & Hove, held its first faceto-face session since lockdown at the end of August.
The group said: “Thank you to everyone who attended Trans Can Volleyball last night. It was a blast.” D For more info on Trans Can Sport, visit: www.transcansport.co.uk
Benjamin (Benji) Taylor, community development worker for the ICTA project, said: “With this information we are going to work alongside the NHS to train and inform healthcare workers on how best to care for trans, including non-binary, people. We are also going to be creating a resource for trans people to use to best help them navigate the healthcare world, specifically looking at experiences with gender identity services. “We believe that this is an incredibly important area of research and that we have a really good opportunity to work with the community to create change for them to see in their lifetime. Our team is led by trans, including non-binary, people – like myself – who truly understand the gravity of the task we are undertaking. We have been granted a special remit by the National Institute for Health Research to change the current way trans people are treated so it is a project we all hold close to our hearts.” D To complete the survey, visit: www.demographix.com/surveys/RZHWGEV6/KNBWAT97/?ictawebsite D If you’d prefer a paper version of the survey, email your name and address to Ev Callahan at: evelyn.callahan@open.ac.uk – or call 01908 858 185. D For more info on ICTA, visit: http://businessschool.open.ac.uk/research/projects/icta
TRANS WOMEN ON TEEN VOGUE COVER ) Two transgender models, Jari Jones (29) and Munroe Bergdorf (32), both featured on their own cover of the September issue of Teen Vogue, with the headline ‘what is fashion now?’. Teen Vogue tweeted it wanted to centre women ‘at the heart of fashion’ who were often ‘left out of the conversation’. It continued Jones and Bergdorf are ‘trailblazers’.
VOICES IN TRANS BODYBUILDING AND POWERLIFTING ) The International Association of Transgender Bodybuilders and Powerlifters (IATBP), which usually hosts a bodybuilding contest and powerlifting meet in Atlanta, US, will this year be holding the free IATBP Inaugural Virtual Conference 2020: Voices in Trans Bodybuilding and Powerlifting on Saturday, October 3 from 4.50pm (BST)
successful bodybuilder to the problems faced by transgender powerlifters in the sport.” IATBP is an organisation created for bodybuilders and powerlifters who identify as trans (belonging at any level of the trans spectrum) as well as non-binary/gender nonconforming people.
Bergdorf, who is also a writer and broadcaster, told Teen Vogue she had embraced the label ‘activist’. On her official website she states: “I believe passionately in inclusivity for all, no matter your race, ability, religious beliefs, sexuality or gender identity. I believe we should always stand up for what we believe in and call out acts of injustice when we encounter them.” Teen Vogue referred to her as a “powerful, unstoppable force”. Munroe Bergdorf’s debut book Transitional is out in 2021. Jones, who was the face of Calvin Klein’s 2020 Pride Campaign, told Teen Vogue she hoped she could inspire young queer people. On her Instagram, she wrote it was a dream come true to have a Teen Vogue cover in her “authentic skin”. Both Jones and Bergdorf are advocates for the Black Lives Matter movement. Both women have been congratulated for their “powerful covers”, and Teen Vogue has been praised for bringing trans narratives into the spotlight.
IATBP says: “Due to this year’s unprecedented circumstances, we have decided to take the event online to give a platform to trans athletes in strength and physique sports to host workshops and roundtables on a number of issues, from how to be a
IATBP is the first official organisation that was created specifically for athletes who are not on the gender binary spectrum, in order to give them a platform to compete fairly. D For more info, visit: https://iatb.info
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