GIRES has agreed to endorse this research recruitment study to understand how psychological therapy for trans people can be improved. This project has been developed closely with trans people with lived experience of mental health difficulties. For more information, please see the poster.

GIRES has endorsed the following photovoice project Are you trans (aged 18–24)? Share & showcase photos of your life experiences in open & creative discussions & exhibitions. Remuneration & consulted on the future of the research for more info: lsbupsychology.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🌈 New Resource: Being Ready Community Journal 📝 Talking about end of life can feel difficult, but planning ahead can bring comfort & peace of mind As part of the Being Ready Project, GIRES, along with @hospiceuk.bsky.social & @mariecurieuk.bsky.social has created the Being Ready Community Journal

🚨 We now have only 2 days to go and £1,455 to raise if we’re to hit our £10,000 target! Please can you SHARE our Crowdfunder with your networks - whether it’s on social media, in a WhatsApp group, or emailing family and friends 🙏 Let’s give a final push to get over the finishing line 💙

📢 The wonderful folks at GIRES UK only have 3 days left to fundraise so they can preserve and continue their vital work 📢 Please consider donating below 👇 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-gires

🚨 We now have only 2 days to go and £1,455 to raise if we’re to hit our £10,000 target! Please can you SHARE our Crowdfunder with your networks - whether it’s on social media, in a WhatsApp group, or emailing family and friends 🙏 Let’s give a final push to get over the finishing line 💙

✨ New Report Out Now ✨ GIRES, in partnership with @hospiceuk.bsky.social and @stonewalluk.bsky.social has published the Being Ready Survey Report – looking at trans and gender diverse people’s experiences of death, dying, and bereavement care. 👉 Download here: www.gires.org.uk/wp-content/u...

If you believe in trans inclusion, if GIRES has helped you or your organisation, or if you want to protect trans inclusive research and resources, at a time when they are being removed from websites and physical spaces around the world – please donate and share. 🔗 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-gires

But now, like many small charities, we’re facing a financial cliff edge. We urgently need to raise £3,255 before our crowdfunder closes in just 6 days 🙏 🙏 Please share our crowdfunder, so we can reach as many people as possible before the deadline: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-gires

From safeguarding trans healthcare knowledge, to presenting trans research at #WPATH and #Epath, to running the UK’s largest free trans support directory (TransWiki), and creating inclusive, evidence-based training used by councils, educators, and charities – GIRES has made a real difference.

For nearly 30 years, GIRES has been a vital source of trusted research, training, and support for the trans and gender-diverse community and those who work alongside them. lok.gires.org.uk

⚠ Only 6 days left and £3,255 still to raise! Today is International Day of Charity, and we’re asking for your support to help us keep GIRES going. 🙏 Please donate and share: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-gires #InternationalDayOfCharity #Epath2025 #TransResearch

⚠ Only 6 days left and £3,255 still to raise! Today is International Day of Charity, and we’re asking for your support to help us keep GIRES going. 🙏 Please donate and share: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-gires #InternationalDayOfCharity #Epath2025 #TransResearch

Over 100 LGBTQ+ orgs including GIRES have urged MPs to demand scrutiny of the EHRC’s new Code of Practice on single sex spaces. Without debate it will pass into law in 40 days — threatening rights, dignity & safety of trans+ and gender-diverse people. Read more 👉 www.gires.org.uk/joint-statem...

⚠️ Women in the UK don’t need to be told what danger looks like — we live it every day. ⛔ One woman is killed by a man every three days in this country (Femicide Census, 2023) ⛔ In 2023, 1.7 million women experienced domestic abuse (ONS, 2023). It is not trans people who perpetrate these crimes.

34 days left to raise just under £4000 to protect trans research - please share this around your networks:

With 41 days left, this vital fundraiser for a trans research repository is at 52%. Could people boost it please, even if you can't afford to donate?

With all mention of trans+ identities being erased from US Government websites (and what happens in the US…) the maintenance of trans research and resources is more vital than ever. If you can, please support @giresuk.bsky.social, a resource to valuable to lose. 🙏💜

GIRES has signed the following open letter to the DfE Pride in Education. The urgent need to revise the RSHE 2026 Guidance and Centre the Transgender and gender diverse individuals. Please Sign. openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...

🦋 GIRES needs your help. We’re raising £10,000 to keep GIRES going — and protect decades of trans research, resources & community knowledge. We need your help to make sure we can continue to support the trans community 👉 Donate now: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-gires #SaveGIRES #TransSupport

GIRES has signed the following open letter to the DfE Pride in Education. The urgent need to revise the RSHE 2026 Guidance and Centre the Transgender and gender diverse individuals. Please Sign. openletter.earth/the-urgent-n...

Happy London Trans+ Pride🏳️‍⚧️ GIRES has stood with the trans+ community for decades — through advocacy, research, and education Today and every day we continue to stand with every trans, non-binary & gender-diverse person fighting to exist, resist, and thrive #LondonTransPride #ExistenceIsResistance

It's very telling what happens to the comment whenever I write on this subject. Every other week, the comments in my substack are witty, funny and kind. On this topic, they're bitter, vicious, demented. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Last chance to sign this open letter, which closes 9.00pm today 🤗 We already have over 1,250 signatures, which is fantastic! Once it closes I will print the whole thing out with all names and deliver to Bridget Phillipson. Thanks to all for your support 💪💪💪 docs.google.com/forms/d/180G...

With all the petitions signed, with all the demand for trans people to be seen and understood, this should have been an easy thing to help @giresuk.bsky.social get to target for. They’re half way there. Whatever you can give, donate, repost, get this to target! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-gires

I donated. This work is needed now more than ever.

We’re also in need of volunteers. If you’re running an in-person event or have a notice board where you can display our volunteer request poster, please can you can download the PDF in the link below 🙏 PDF 👉 www.gires.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Are you running an in-person event about transgender support, research, education, knowledge sharing, or training? We’d love it if you could download, print, and post our Crowdfunder poster to help us protect our decades of trans research & resources 🙏 PDF 👉 www.gires.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Today is International Non-Binary People’s Day 🌍 💛🤍💜🖤 At GIRES, we’re proud to celebrate, support, and educate about non-binary people—amplifying voices, supporting research, and providing accurate knowledge about all forms of gender diversity. #NonBinaryAwarenessWeek

Are you running an in-person event about transgender support, research, education, knowledge sharing, or training? We’d love it if you could download, print, and post our Crowdfunder poster to help us protect our decades of trans research & resources 🙏 PDF 👉 www.gires.org.uk/wp-content/u...

q:LJMU will hold it first seminar Connecting LGBTQ+ Research & Community on 17/07. LJMU research with LGBTQ+ communities will be presented, with guest speaker @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social. The event will be of interest to researchers, academics, professionals, and community organisations. #lgbtq+

This isn’t just about one charity. It’s about: 🔹 keeping decades of information available, at a time when it’s urgently needed. 🔹supporting the people and organisations who rely on our work. 🔹building something sustainable If you can, please donate or share: 🔗 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-gires

For nearly 30 years, GIRES has supported trans people of all ages — through free resources, inclusive training, and research grounded in lived experience. We’ve helped educate families, professionals, and organisations to support the trans community. Now we’re asking for support to keep going

I’m gonna need GIRES for my dissertation and they’re in danger of not being able to continue. This is the only trans resource we really have in the UK and we need to build on it, especially now. Any @bbkhistorical.bsky.social historians able to chip in?

I have worked with GIRES on their work re. trans people's death certificates. They are an excellent organisation, please help if you can.

🎉 We’ve just passed the £3,490 mark – over a third of the way to our target! GIRES has supported trans people, professionals and families for nearly 30 years. Now we need your help to keep that work going. 🔗 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-gires 💸 Donate if you can 🔁 Repost to show your support

🚨 I've drafted a template MP letter to call on the Minister for Women & Equalities to reject any new EHRC Code unless & until the serious statements of alarm & condemnation from multiple international human rights bodies have been fully acknowledged & resolved. docs.google.com/document/d/1... 1/🧵

For those of you (understandably) scared of how Parliamentary debate on trans healthcare might go, here’s how the recent self ID debate went. I’ve good reason to think we can make this happen again. Let’s get this over the line 🤗: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... bsky.app/profile/phil...

Posting again to keep this going. Any #historians want to chip in to keep this vital trans research going? We are in desperate need of trans research and keeping @giresuk.bsky.social going is so key to recording trans existence and providing support. Donate www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-gires

🎉 We’ve just passed the £3,490 mark – over a third of the way to our target! GIRES has supported trans people, professionals and families for nearly 30 years. Now we need your help to keep that work going. 🔗 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-gires 💸 Donate if you can 🔁 Repost to show your support

GIRES supports in promoting a crucial UK-wide research survey conducted by TransActual in collaboration with Dr Jack López. addressing concerns observed after the Supreme Court’s judgment & now EHRC interim guidance. Survey Link: tinyurl.com/SingleSexSpa... Closing Date: Monday 14th July, 5pm

GIRES is a trans institution, support their fundraising campaign if you can pls!

We’re also reorganising and rebuilding GIRES charity is restructuring into a research-based support hub for trans orgs, educators & EDI professionals — making decades of trusted knowledge and resources more accessible and practical. We’re building for the future — but we can’t do it without you.

GIRES was there when I transitioned nearly 20 years ago. They deserve your support.

If you’re able please support @giresuk.bsky.social for nearly 30 years they’ve been working for the trans community tirelessly fighting for us.

The wonderful folks at @giresuk.bsky.social are fundraising to secure their future - donate to support their work: ➡️ keeping free resources online ➡️ protecting vital research, community knowledge, and history, and supporting ➡️ supporting organisations, educators and families Details below 👇

I’ve donated. If you are able, please support.

GIRES is in urgent need, and they need you. For decades, the Gender Identity Research & Education Society has supported the trans community with vital research, resources, and advocacy. Now, it’s at risk. They’re trying to raise £10,000 to keep GIRES going. Please share this and if you can donate.

Please give if you can 👇

From the burning of the Hirschfeld Institute’s library by the Nazis to the destruction of trans-related research and resources held by US Government agencies - there’s a grim history. This makes @giresuk.bsky.social all the more important. Please support if you can. 🙏💜