Organisations

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Beaumont Society
27 Old Gloucester Street
London WC1N 3XX
24 hour Info Line: 01582 412220
Tel: 01582 732936
E-mail: See website for regional email contacts
Website: www.beaumontsociety.org.uk
The Beaumont Society is one of the largest support groups with online resources for the transgender community in the UK. It promotes better understanding of the conditions of transgender, transvestism and gender dysphoria thereby creating and improving tolerance and acceptance. It offers weekend reunions, make-up finishing schools, a national information line network, a safe mail box contact system, a wives and partners group (see below) and the Beaumont Magazine.

Depend
BM Depend
London WC1N 3XX
E-mail: info@depend.org.uk
Website: www.depend.org.uk
An organisation offering free, confidential and non-judgmental advice, information and support to all family members, including spouses, partners and friends of transsexual people in the UK. A helpline is currently being planned.

The FTM network
E-mail: membership@ftm.org.uk
Website: www.ftm.org.uk
An informal self-help group, open to all female to male transgender and transsexual people or those exploring this aspect of their gender. It has over 750 members in Britain and Europe, and contact with F to M groups worldwide.

The Gender Trust
PO Box 3192
Brighton BN1 3WR
Information Line: 01273 234024 (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm)
E-mail: info@gendertrust.org.uk
Website: www.gendertrust.org.uk
Specifically helps adults who are transsexual, gender dysphoric or transgender i.e. those who seek to adjust their lives to live as women or men, or to come to terms with their situation despite their genetic background. They supply services including information about counseling and help for those who are intersex or encountering gender issues in the course of their work across all professions. The Information Line is answered by staff and volunteers who have access to a wide range of information and can offer a listening ear to those who need to talk in confidence.

Gender Identity Research and Education Society
Bernard Reed
Melverly
The Warren
Ashtead
Surrey KT21 2SP
Tel: 01372 801554
E-mail: admin@gires.org.uk
Website: www.gires.org.uk
GIRES' primary mission is to improve the circumstances in which transgenderl people live. Its aim is to generate supportive attitudes among all those who can make those improvements happen and develops good practice guidelines, education programmes and literature specially tailored for each of the groups that it aims to influence.

Mermaids
Telephone: 07020 935066 (3pm-7pm Mondays-Saturdays, answerphone when not staffed)
E-mail: mermaids@freeuk.com
Website: www.mermaids.freeuk.com
Supports individual young people whether they are out or not and tries to help families understand and accept their child's gender identity issue. Offers support via telephone, e-mail and snail mail, and wherever possible, meetings. The Mermaids UK Parents offers support, information and a friendship list for parents/guardians/foster parents.

The Northern Concord
P.O. Box 258
Manchester
M60 1LN
E-mail: JennyB@northernconcord.org.uk
Website: www.northernconcord.org.uk
A social, self-help group for cross-dressers, transvestites, transsexuals and their wives or partners based in Manchester who meet every Wednesday night. Their website includes a useful page of weblinks.

Press for Change
Telephone: 01274 424500 / 07748 366452
E-mail: Claire McNab (Vice President and Editor) editor@pfc.org.uk
Website: www.pfc.org.uk
A political lobbying and educational organisation, which campaigns to achieve equal civil rights and liberties for all transgender people in the UK through legislation and social change. The site contains hundreds of articles, features and links and is regularly updated.

Women of Beaumont Society (WOBS)
South and East: 01223 441246
Midlands and West: 01684 578281
Scotland: 01389 380389
E-mail: wobsuk@aol.com
Website: www.gender.org.uk/wobsuk
Arose initially as a support group for the wives and partners of The Beaumont Society members (see above), but now has had its own dedicated helplines which are available publicly for use by all female partners throughout the UK.

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