Florence Oulds, Policy and Public Affairs Officer at Scottish Trans, will share findings from the recent Scottish Trans and Non-binary Experiences Report, and the ways that negative experiences across many different aspects of daily life have significant impacts on mental health and connectedness for trans and non-binary people. The talk will use narrative to frame key stats from the report, and show the ways that interpersonal and systemic discrimination and exclusion from services leave many in the trans community without traditional safety nets, causing great harm to their physical and mental health.

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This event is run by the Queer Minds Scotland Network (funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh) but we welcome attendees based all across the globe. This workshop is open to anyone interested in the topics including community members, practitioners, policy makers, students and researchers.

A note on safety and inclusion: Queer Minds Scotland is a fully inclusive network and space of all LGBTQIA+ communities. We therefore take a zero tolerance approach to any discrimination that compromises the safety of the space i.e. transphobia, racism, ableism - and reserve the right to remove participants who may express such views. 

Joining instructions for Zoom will be sent on the morning of the event.