The United Kingdom has nationalized healthcare through the NHS (National Health Service). While some trans and gender diverse people have found the care to be adequate, many have experienced long wait times, sometimes a decade or more, for a referral to a specialty gender clinic. For that reason, many people in the UK choose to make a gender transition outside the NHS system through private providers, through foreign providers, or through do-it-yourself options like ordering hormones online.
Resources
NHS (nhs.uk)
- Gender dysphoria
- nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria
TransUnite (transunite.co.uk)
LGBT Foundation (lgbt.foundation)
- Trans and non-binary support
- https://lgbt.foundation/help/trans-advocacy-service/
Press for Change (pfc.org.uk)
Mermaids (mermaidsuk.org.uk)
Trans Media Watch (transmediawatch.org)
TransPlus (wearetransplus.co.uk)
CliniQ (cliniq.org.uk)
56 Dean Street (dean.st)
The London Transgender Clinic (thelondontransgenderclinic.uk)
GenderGP (gendergp.com)
The Gender Clinic (thegenderclinic.co.uk)
The Gender Hormone Clinic (thegenderhormoneclinic.com)
London Friend Counselling (londonfriend.org.uk)
Spectra (spectra-london.org.uk)
London LGBTQ+ Community Centre (londonlgbtqcentre.org)
TransSober (transsober.org)
LGBT Hero (lgbthero.org.uk)
- Trans Directory
- lgbthero.org.uk/trans-directory
a:gender (agender.org.uk)
- Support network for staff in Government Departments and Agencies, covering all aspects of gender reassignment, gender identity, gender expression and Intersex.
Gender Identity Research and Education Society – GIRES (gires.org.uk)
The Beaumont Society (beaumontsociety.org.uk)
TransActual (transactual.org.uk)
Bristol Pride (bristolpride.co.uk)
Gendered Intelligence (genderedintelligence.co.uk)
Stonewall (stonewall.org.uk)
Stonewall Housing (stonewallhousing.org)
Black Trans Alliance (blacktransalliance.org)
The Gender Trust (gendertrust.org.uk)
Consortium (consortium.lgbt)
Trans Legal Clinic (translegalclinic.com)
Transgender Zone (transgenderzone.com)
- Practitioner listings
Gendys Network (gender.org.uk/gendys)
In-Trust Merseyside (merseysideintrust.org)
GALOP (galop.org.uk)
- Support for LGBT people facing abuse and harassment
Pink Therapy (pinktherapy.com)
Transcend (transcend.org.uk)
- Derby’s transgender support group.
Transit (transit.org.uk)
- Advice for transgender people, including non-binary and intersex
Trans Safety Network (transsafety.network)
- records evidence of organised harm against trans people in the UK
Gender Plus (genderplus.com)
- Private health services for gender diverse people
- London
- Birmingham
- Dublin
Northern Ireland
Transgender NI (transgenderni.org.uk)
- Northern Ireland resources
Scotland
Scottish Trans (scottishtrans.org)
LGBT Health & Wellbeing (lgbthealth.org.uk)
LGBT Youth Scotland (lgbtyouth.org.u)
Transparentsees (transparentsees.scot)
Trans Masculine Scotland (aliss.org)
Trans EDU (trans.ac.uk)
LGBT Helpline Scotland (compasscentre.org)
The Beaumont Society (beaumontsociety.org)
UK youth
Mermaids (mermaidsuk.org.uk)
- for young people in transition
Stonewall Housing (stonewallhousing.org)
- housing for LGBT people age 16-25 +housing support line
Gendered Intelligence (genderedintelligence.co.uk)
- Trans youth group (16-24) + trans trainings for school/businesses.
Family support
Depend (depend.org.uk)
In Front Of You (infrontofyou.weebly.com)
- Forum for parents of trans youth.
Faith
The Sibyls (sibyls.gndr.org.uk)
- Confidential Christian spirituality group for transgender people, their partners and supporters.
Intersex
The UK Intersex Association (ukia.co.uk)