In a ruling on Monday 14th September Patrice Hughes, a Birmingham employment judge, found in favour of an engineer, R Taylor, who was “subjected to insults and abusive jokes at work” and had their access to toilet facilities restricted. Under the 2010 Equality Act people are entitled to protection from discriminatory treatment in the workplace […]
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The Repair Shop
The Repair Shop is an award-winning BBC series featuring a team of Britain’s most skilled and caring craftspeople, who rescue and resurrect items their owners’ thought were beyond saving. Currently, ‘The Repair Shop’ is reaching out to a wide range of communities for our upcoming series. We’re eager to find individuals with beloved and treasured […]
New Transgender Children’s Series on CBBC
The BBC has acquired a new Australian children’s TV series that tells the story of Hannah Bradford, a transgender girl navigating her first term of high school while presenting as female for the first time. The first showing will be on Wednesday 19th August at 5pm, and it and subsequent episodes will also be available […]
How do you think that Gender Identity services should respond to the needs of trans people?
We have received this request from Emily Compton who is hoping that you might be able to help with the research she is conducting. Please help her if you can because this is a serious research project which they have planning for several months. “My name is Emily Compton and I am a Trainee Clinical […]
Research into the lived experience of people who engage in Cross-Dressing
Iulian Chear is very grateful to all those who have helped with his research, but he now has enough participants. Thank you so much to all those who took part! We have received this request from a doctoral student who would like the help of a few members of the Beaumont Society. “My name is […]
Summer magazine is on its way.
All members who receive the Beaumont Magazine should receive their copy of the summer issue (No 110) very soon. I took them all to my local sorting office yesterday morning (2nd July). Actually, having packed them in their envelopes, stuck on the address labels and stamps on Tuesday afternoon and evening, I took them to […]
Letter to Liz Truss, Minister for Women and Equalities
The Committee of the Beaumont Society is concerned at rumours that the Government is planning to introduce new regulations relating to the use of ‘single-sex’ safe spaces. We wrote a letter to the Minister for Women and Equalities, Liz Truss, on 16th June. Here is the text of that letter, which we also copied to […]
Former President Janett Scott has died
It is with great sadness that I report that our former President, Janett Scott, has died. Janett was a dominant figure in the Beaumont Society for many years and did a huge amount to support to support trans people, and endured a great deal of abuse as a result. We will post more information in […]
Emma has now found a trans-woman who became a campaigner after experiencing discrimination
Emma has just notified me that she has now found enough interviewees for her article. I will post details of the article when it becomes available. She has asked me thank those who expressed an interest. I had received this request from Emma Elms, a thoroughly trustworthy journalist who has written articles about me and […]
We have received this message from Benji Taylor from Yorkshire MESMAC. Please take time to read it and help with their research if you can. “I am community development worker from the Integrating Care for Trans Adults project at Yorkshire MESMAC. We are asking for you to support our project as we keep up the momentum […]