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Participation
There are various opportunities available to participate in the Scottish Transgender Alliance’s work to promote transgender inclusion, equality and rights across Scotland.
Current Participation Opportunities
STA Training Film Volunteers: The Scottish Transgender Alliance is currently seeking volunteers to be filmed in April 2008 for a short DVD resource we are creating to help train service providers and employers about transgender equality and rights. If you would be willing to say a little about your gender identity and your experiences as a transgender person with employers or service providers, then please contact us for more information.
STA Online Survey on Training Needs of Transgender Equality Volunteers: Historically, transgender people across Scotland have been voluntarily working to promote transgender equality without any specific training or support to help them. The Scottish Transgender Alliance intends to set up a series of free training events and ongoing support for people in Scotland doing transgender equality volunteer work. To help us determine the priority areas of training wanted by transgender equality volunteers, please complete this Scottish Transgender Alliance online survey.
The survey is primarily aimed at self-identified transgender people living in Scotland, including trans men, trans women, intersex people, androgyne/polygender people and cross-dressing/transvestite people. However, this survey is also open to non-transgender people who wish to do voluntary work to promote transgender equality issues. The survey takes less than five minutes to complete and is available online at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=coZd3rrl86LfKtNYq4TDkA_3d_3d
STA Regional Contacts: The Scottish Transgender Alliance needs transgender people from all across Scotland to get involved and tell us about any problems they experience with service providers or employers so that we can build up evidence of the kinds of transphobic discrimination still occurring across Scotland. We also need transgender people to tell us about any particularly good experiences they have with service providers or employers in Scotland so that we can showcase positive examples of the organisations who are working hard to support transgender people.
In some areas of Scotland there are long-standing transgender support groups running and it is relatively easy to find out how public services such as the National Health Service and Local Councils are treating transgender people. However, in other parts of Scotland there are no local support groups currently running and it is very difficult to find out how transgender people are being treated by their local public services.
We need more transgender individuals from across Scotland to volunteer to let the Scottish Transgender Alliance know what is happening in their local areas. In return, the Scottish Transgender Alliance can provide regional contact volunteers with some training and resources to help support their involvement in local equality consultations and to assist them to develop small local transgender groups.