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Trans Awareness Week
Today marks the beginning of#TransAwarenessWeek in the UK.
Click on the hashtag, and share the love. It’s more important than ever to show support and be an ally.
Action For Hearing Loss
Our friends at Action for Hearing Loss have asked us share there poster
DO YOU WEAR NHS HEARING AIDS?
OR ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT YOUR HEARING?
Come along to our monthly, FREE drop-in hearing aid clinics for;
- new batteries and new ear mould tubing
- advice on how to use and clean your hearing aids
- information on hearing loss and all the services that can help you
- hearing check if you do not wear hearing aids but are concerned about your hearing
- LEEK, Trinity Church, Derby Street, 2nd Tuesday, 10 – 12 (advice, information and hearing checks only) NOW QUARTERLY in 2018 – 13th March, 12th June, 11th September and 11th December
- CANNOCK, Cannock Library, 4TH Tuesday, 10 – 11.30
- HEDNESFORD, The Hedgeford Lodge, Anglesey Street,
2nd Wednesday, 10-11.30
- RUGELEY, Sneydlands, Bryans Lane, 3rd Tuesday, 10 – 11.30
- STAFFORD, Rising Brook Baptist Church, Wolverhampton Road,
1st Tuesday, 11 – 12.30
For more information contact:
Staffordshire Community Support Officers: Mobile: 07960 407595 or 07939 169157
Email: heartohelp.staffordshire@hearingloss.org.uk
Action on Hearing Loss is the trading name of The Royal National Institute for Deaf People.
A registered charity in England and Wales (207720) and Scotland (SC038926) IA0020/0115
What is the support like for Trans people in Stoke? Kirsty tells us her story…
Growing up in Stoke-on-Trent I was often teased and called gay and told to ring the Lesbian, Gay Switchboard. This I denied as I knew I fancied girls so I didn’t think I could be gay. My first memory at the age of 8 was of wearing female clothes but I could not bring myself to admit it was true as in the 1970s/80s being Transgender wasn’t spoke about. By age of 17 I had thought about coming out and even had a Transgender friend. When I first had the internet I started looking into Gender Dysphoria and realized the only way to be the true me would have been to move away from Stoke which tore me between family or being myself. I carried on dressing in secret for a few years.
I first came out to an ex-boss who seemed to welcome me dressing and even invited me around so I could dress at her house. Whenever I spoke to her about me wanting take HRT she wouldn’t talk to me. She suggested I phone the works medical service and talk things through with them. At this time I came across Gender Matters web-site and a link to Sanctuary Stoke and the LGBT Network Staffordshire. After attending my first few meetings (which I was too shy to take my coat off for!) I started to volunteer for the LGBT group. I started to find myself and I am now on HRT and attending GIC and starting to feel happy about myself for the first time in my life.
Sparkle 2018
Four of us from Trans-Staffordshire (inc SOFFA) attended sparkle-in-the-park on the Saturday great day for networking