This directory contains resources for trans patients navigating UK healthcare systems.
You can find information aimed at professionals on our Trans Health Information for Healthcare Professionals pages.
Accessing gender healthcare
Key resource
TransActual: How to access medical transition
Step-by-step guide to NHS and private pathways including information about referrals, what to expect in appointments, and treatments available.
- Choice Support and CHANGE: Transgender: an easy read guide
- Community Trade Union: Time off work for trans healthcare
- Highland Gender Clinic: Gender identity clinic – what to expect
- NHS Arden and GEM: Facial Hair Reduction for Gender Dysphoria
- Sussex Gender Service: What to expect at your first assessment
- TransActual: Support from your GP
- TransActual: Common healthcare issues (and what to do)
Aging
- Age UK: Information for older trans people
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers: Growing Older as a Trans and/or Non-binary Person
Binding
- LGBT Foundation: A guide to safe binding
Cancer
Key resource
UKCATS: UK Cancer and Transition Service
Specialist service supporting trans people who have cancer or a history of cancer. The service allows self-referral.
- CoppaFeel and OUTPatients: Resources for trans and non-binary people
- Macmillan Cancer Support and OUTPatients: Transgender and non-binary people and cancer
- OUTPatients: The UK’s only LGBTIQ+ cancer charity
- OUTPatients: Chest Check 101
- OUTpatients and Macmillan: LGBTQ+ people and cancer treatment
- Ovacome: Ovarian cancer awareness for trans and non-binary people
- Ovacome: Ovarian cancer information for transgender, intersex and non-binary people
- Prevent Breast Cancer and OUTPatients: Transgender chest awareness
- Prostate Cancer UK: Trans women and prostate cancer
- The Eve Appeal: Information for trans, non-binary and intersex people
Contraception
- FSRH Clinical Effectiveness Unit: Contraceptive Choices and Sexual Health for Transgender and Non-binary People
Crime and abuse
Key resource
GALOP: National Helpline for LGBT+ Victims and Survivors of Abuse and Violence
Helpline for LGBT+ people experiencing abuse or violence, including hate crime, domestic abuse, sexual violence, so-called “conversion therapy” or any other kind of abuse.
- GALOP: National Conversion Therapy Helpline
- TransActual: Hate crime
Drugs and alcohol
- Antidote: Drugs and alcohol support
- TransSober: Support with drug and alcohol use for the trans and non-binary community
Exploring gender identity
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers: How To Understand Your Gender
- LGBT Youth Scotland: Questioning your gender identity
Fertility
Key resource
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority: Information for trans and non-binary people seeking fertility treatment
Detailed guide to trans people’s options for fertility preservation.
- Indigo Gender Service: Gamete storage
- NHS Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust: Fertility preservation for trans women and non-binary people
- NHS Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust: Fertility preservation for trans men and non-binary people
- NHS Sussex Partnership: Gender Affirming Care, Fertility, and Infertility
- Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health: Have you thought about fertility?
General health
- Pelvic Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy: Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises and Advice – A guide for trans women, trans feminine and non-binary people
- Pelvic Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy: Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises and Advice – A guide for trans men, trans masculine and non-binary people
- Royal Osteoporosis Society: Transgender (trans) people and osteoporosis
Hormones
- Indigo Gender Service: Feminising Hormone Therapy
- Indigo Gender Service: Masculining Hormone Therapy
- Indigo Gender Service: Testosterone options
- Indigo Gender Service: Bone health
- Leeds GIS: How to give a Testosterone Intramuscular (IM) Injection
- NHS Sussex Partnership: Feminising hormone treatment
- NHS Sussex Partnership: Testosterone
- Northern Region Gender Dysphoria Service: Information about treatment with estradiol
- Northern Region Gender Dysphoria Service: Information about treatment with GnRH Analogue, also known as ‘blockers’, for adults seeking feminisation
- Northern Region Gender Dysphoria Service: Information about treatment with testosterone
- Northern Region Gender Dysphoria Service: Information about treatment with GnRH Analogue, also known as ‘blockers’, for adults seeking masculinisation
- Transcend Gender Service: Feminising Hormone Therapy
- Transcend Gender Service: Masculining Hormone Therapy
Legal issues
Key resource
TransActual: Your Rights In One Page
Overview of key legal rights for trans people in the UK.
- Equality and Human Rights Commission: Gender reassignment discrimination – your rights under the Equality Act
- TransActual: The Gender Recognition Act
- TransActual: The Equality Act
Mental health
- genderkit.org.uk: Information on finding counselling for trans people
- LGBT Health and Wellbeing: A Manual for me: Suicide Prevention Toolkit
- Mind: Trans and nonbinary mental health
- Mindline Trans+: Mental health support helpline
- NHS: Mental health support if you’re lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans (LGBTQ+)
- The Clare Project: Self care
- TransActual: Mental health and wellbeing resources
Partners and families
- Beyond Reflections: Family and Friends Group
- Distinction: Trans Partner Support
- FFLAG UK: My Child is Transgender
- FFLAG UK: I’m a Trans Parent – How do I tell my children?
- Gendered Intelligence: Parents and carers group
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers: The Reflective Workbook for Partners of Transgender People
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers: The Reflective Workbook for Parents and Families of Transgender and Non-Binary Children
- Sussex Gender Service: Supporting your loved one through transition
- The Clare Project: Friends and family
- TransPAC Parents and Carers: Resources for trans parents, carers and their families
Peer support
- Gendered Intelligence: Support Line service
- Leeds Gender Identity Service: Gender Outreach Workers
- LGBT Health and Wellbeing: Individual support (Scotland)
- Northern Region Gender Dysphoria Service: Peer Support Service
- Sheffield Gender Clinic: Peer Support Workers
- Spectra London: Trans Peer Mentoring
- The Clare Project: Sussex Gender Service Care Navigators
- Umbrella Cymru: XIST Peer Support Service
Pregnancy and childbirth
- NHS England: Chestfeeding if you’re trans or non-binary
- TransPAC Parents and Carers: Resources for trans parents, carers and their families
Screening tests
- Cancer Research UK: I’m trans or non-binary, does this affect my cancer screening?
- HSC Public Health Agency: Screening information for transgender, non-binary and gender fluid service users
- Jo’s Trust: Cervical screening for trans and nonbinary people (archived)
- NHS: Cervical screening for trans men
- NHS England: Population Screening Information for Trans People
- NHS Inform: Transgender screening in Scotland
- NHS Wales: Information for people who are transgender (trans) or non-binary
- OUTPatients: Cancer risk and screening – Information for people who are transgender, non-binary and gender-diverse
- OUTPatients: Remove the Doubt cervical screening information
- OUTPatients: Best for my Chest breast screening information
- OUTPatients: My Cervix My Service cervical screening information
- The Eve Appeal: Cervical screening
Sexual health and HIV
Key resource
Terrence Higgins Trust: Sexual health for trans and non-binary people
Patient information about sex and sexual health for trans people, including information about safer sex, PrEP and PEP, testing for HIV and STIs, living with HIV, and sexual health clinics specifically for trans people.
- iBase: PrEP for Trans and Nonbinary People
- LGBT Hero: Trans sexual health
- NHS Inform: Trans and nonbinary people – PrEP
- Plushealth: Your reproductive health – trans people
- PrEPSter: Trans People Taking PrEP
- The Love Tank: ‘Little Back Pocket Guide To’ Series – including information about DoxyPeP
Social and support groups
- Gendered Intelligence: Services page (under 25s)
- GIRES: Tranzwiki (UK-wide)
- LGBT Health and Wellbeing: What’s On Calendar (Scotland)
- The Trans Dimension: Groups page (London and Manchester)
- Umbrella Cymru: Social Groups page (Wales)
Social transition
- genderkit.org.uk: Coming out
- genderkit.org.uk: Information on updating ID documents and medical records
- The Clare Project: Social transition
- TransActual: Name Changes
Surgery
Key resource
TransActual: What Do I Need To Know About Surgery
Guide for trans people on accessing transition related surgery, including information about choosing a surgical team, attending consultations, preparing for surgery, and what to expect in hospital and during recovery.
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers: Gender Confirmation Surgery – A guide for trans and non-binary people
- NHS Arden and GEM: Hair removal prior to phalloplasty surgery
- NHS Arden and GEM: Hair removal prior to vaginoplasty surgery
- NHS Arden and GEM: Vaginoplasty
- NHS Arden and GEM: Vulvoplasty
- NHS Arden and GEM: Metoidioplasty
- NHS Arden and GEM: Phalloplasty
- NHS Arden and GEM: Chest surgery
- NHS Sussex Partnership: Unscheduled aftercare
- NHS University Hospitals Sussex: Gender-affirming laparoscopic hysterectomy
- Pelvic Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy: Fit Following Surgery – Advice for trans men, trans masculine and non-binary people following hysterectomy
Voice
Key resource
Jessica Kingsley Publishers: The Voice Book for Trans and Non-Binary People: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Authentic Voice and Communication
Book aimed at trans people who wish to work on changing their voice written by specialist NHS speech and language therapists.
- Indigo Gender Service: Voice and Communication Therapy
- Northern Region Gender Dysphoria Service: Voice and Communication Therapy Information Leaflet
- Not A Phase: Trans+ Voice Academy
- Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health: Finding your voice
- Tavistock and Portman Gender Identity Clinic: Speech and language therapy
- TransActual: Speech Therapy
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