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And Others Toolkit - Gender Recognition Section (1.79 MB)

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And Others Toolkit - Media Representation Section (282.72 KB)

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And Others Toolkit - Hate Crime Section (328.85 KB)

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And Others Toolkit - Engaging Civil Servants Section (366.68 KB)

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And Others Toolkit - Glossary & Resources Section (544.38 KB)

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About Us

And Others

‘…and Others!’ European Learning Partnership

“Dear Ladies, Gentlemen... and Others!” This greeting launched the Second European Transgender Council back in May 2008, with the theme “Making Human Rights Work”. Six Scottish Transgender Alliance activists were among more than 200 trans activists gathered in Berlin for the Council. Acutely aware of the importance of increasing positive trans visibility and sharing activist knowledge, the event became the start point for developing the first ever Transgender European Learning Partnership Project. The five partners were:

Equality Network: Scottish Transgender Alliance (STA),
TransInterQueer Berlin (TrIQ),
Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI),
Transgender Network Netherlands (TNN),
Transgender Europe (TGEU).

The ‘…And Others!’ Transgender European Learning Partnership Project was funded by the European Commission from August 2009 until July 2011. During a series of short weekend exchange visits we created a transgender rights toolkit to share knowledge across Europe about how to lobby for improvements in trans equality. You can find the PDF version of the toolkit in the Downloads Box on the left of this page or you can request paper copies using our contact us form. The toolkit covers the topics of:

Gender and Family Recognition
Employment
Media Visibility
Healthcare
Hate Crime
Engaging with Civil Servants

We also together developed a large audio-visual photographic exhibition of transgender portraits called ‘Serious Game’ which was toured around Europe with accompanying awareness-raising posters and postcards.

Serious Game postcard

Over the last weekend of February 2010, the leading trans activists from Ireland, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands were hosted by Scottish Transgender Alliance staff and volunteers for the first exchange visit.

The Scottish Transgender Alliance Project Coordinator was responsible for leading the development of the content of the Hate Crime and Engaging with Government Civil Servants sections of the toolkit.

The best bit of the project was enabling six transgender volunteers to travel abroad:

Although the project was mostly to enable the Scottish Transgender Alliance staff to develop links with other staff carrying out equivalent transgender equality work in other European countries, it was possible to also involve some transgender volunteers in the travel abroad.

Four Scottish Transgender Alliance volunteers (two trans women, one trans man and one intersex person) were funded to attend the Third European Transgender Council from 30 Sept 2010 to 3 Oct 2010 in Malmo, Sweden.

Two Scottish Transgender Alliance volunteers (one trans man and one trans woman) were funded to attend the exchange event hosted by the Transgender Network Netherlands in Amsterdam in early February 2011.

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The project has been funded with support from the European Commission. Information on this website reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.