Transgender Awareness Week 13th-19th November

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This week marks Transgender Awareness Week and our blog post hopes to take a step in helping to raise awareness amongst our student and staff population and beyond.

So, what does Transgender mean?

A person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex.

Gender is different from sex. Sex is the biological term for determining whether someone was born with X or Y chromosomes. Gender is a social construct to which traits are ascribed as either ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’. Someone’s gender does not define their sexual orientation – often these two are distinct.Gender is a spectrum across which many people identify in many ways.

What can I do to help?

Approaching transgender people with respect, awareness, and a desire to learn about gender is an important step in making sure you don’t hurt anyone’s feelings.

Take some time to research more about gender identities and langauge.

The following websites provide a great place to start.

  1. https://www.glaad.org/transgender
  2. https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/

To show your support, you could also do some research into the different identities shown in the above image and carry out your own research too.

If you would ever like to share your own experiences or have a topic you'd like us to explore on our upcoming blogs, please email: wellbeing@wyke.ac.uk using the title 'Blog.'

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