Transforming Outcomes

A review of the needs and assets of the trans community.

This report has been produced as part of LGBT Foundation’s Big Lottery-funded Trans Programme. LGBT Foundation’s Trans Programme has four key objectives, which are to:

• Improve the health and wellbeing of trans people
• Increase the skills and confidence of trans people
• Increase the knowledge, empowerment and resilience of trans people
• Reduce the feelings of loneliness and isolation of trans people

We achieve these objectives through ongoing community engagement which directs and shapes our work. We take an asset-based approach in our work with LGBT communities, aiming always to draw on and emphasise the strengths of the communities we work with. Whilst this document is intended to raise awareness of health, social and legal inequalities experienced by trans communities in the UK, we also felt it was important to reflect the self-organising, activism, and support that trans communities offer to each other. This is in keeping with LGBT Foundation’s work and community development approach to the Trans Programme, and recognises the history, diversity and success of trans organising in the UK, which our programme aims to support and amplify.