RESOURCES FOR TRANSWOMEN

Inner Beauty

Let Penny help you to release your inner beauty, with options from make-up lessons and mini makeovers to special pamper days that can include confidential advice, facial, make-up, nail painting and even shopping for your own personal style!

New makeover and Wig/ Hair saloon now available.

email: penny-innerbeauty@hotmail.co.uk

Sylvia Parry, Virgin Vie Consultant

Virgin Vie sell a wide range of cosmetics, skincare from Switzerland, make-up from Milan, and bath and body treats. They also offer a selection of chic jewellery. Sylvia can assist you with choosing the products that are right for you.

email: sylparry@aol.com  Web: www.myvirgincosmetics.co.uk/sylviaparry

Dress Me Up

A discreet, friendly, quality, Cross Dressing & Transgender Service in Cheshire, established by two friends, Evelyn and Jo. The team have years of experience and knowledge of working with those who wish to have their true feminine side revealed. Services include full colour co-ordinated makeover with choice of colour and style in wigs, nail polish or false nails, choice of dress styles, from French Maid, to that ever so sexy Secretarial look, Blushing Bride or Show girl, and a photo-shoot with a professional photographer.

email: evelyn@dress-me-up.co.uk  Web: www.dress-me-up.co.uk

Other on-line support can be found in the LINKS section

SUPPORT FOR WIVES, PARTNERS & FAMILIES

Women Of the Beaumont Society (WOBS)

WOBS runs helplines and a support and discussion Yahoo group for wives, partners, family members, SO's and close friends of TG people.

email: WOBSMatters@aol.com  Yahoo group: uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/wobsmatters 

Web: www.gender.org.uk/wobsmatters

Minerva Counselling & Training

Specialising in gender issues, sexuality, disability issues, grief and loss. Minerva Counselling offers a safe place to discuss difficult and personal issues, confidentiality, and honest feedback.

email: enq@minervacounselling.org.uk  Web: www.minervacounselling.org.uk 

Counselling Directory

A support network of UK counsellors and psychotherapists, with information on their training and experience, areas of counselling covered, fees and contact details. This service is free, confidential and easy to use.

Web: www.counselling-directory.org.uk

Sibyls

Sibyls is a UK wide Christian organisation for transgendered people. Weekends are hosted twice a year in different retreat houses throughout the country, plus other occasional meetings. Details from Jay Walmsley.

Telephone: 0208-763-0146 Web:www.sibyls.co.uk  email enquiries@sibyls.co.uk

Metropolitan Community Church of Manchester

Regular weekly service on Sundays at 4.30pm - Wibraham St Ninian's church, Wilbraham Rd / Egerton Road South, Chorlton, Manchester M21 0XJ. Click HERE for directions.

MCC welcomes everyone without bias or prejudice and seeks to provide an affirming and non-judgemental atmosphere. Trans members play a full and active part in the church, including leading worship, celebrating Holy Communion, and as members of the church board. MCC also sponsors the monthly meetings of Transforum Trans Discussion Group which meets at 4.30 pm on the fourth Saturday of each month in the church hall and is a discussion and mutual help and support group for all transgendered people. Click HERE for directions.

Pastor: The Rev Andy Braunston

email: revandy@mccmanchester.co.uk   Web: www.mccmanchester.co.uk

Agave Clinic, Marbella, Spain.

This is the only maxillofacial centre which specialises in Full Facial Feminization (FFS) Surgery in Europe.

Dr. Bart van de Ven, who studied under Dr. Douglass Ousterhoust in California, works closely with a team

of plastic and maxillofacial surgeons to develop individualised treatment plans.

The clinic also provides a patient coordinator for each client who will assist along the way with all the minute details in

planning for surgery. Free consultations are conducted monthly in London and Dublin.

Contact: Lilia Koss, Patient Coordinator ++34-952-864-191

email: lilia@agaveclinic.com  Web: www.agaveclinic.com

 

Transpose

A Cheshire based make-over & dressing service for all cross-dressers , TV's, TGirls, TS's et al, very discreetly located in a quiet area of Ellesmere Port with ample free parking. Other services include make-up lessons, manicure, pedicure, waxing, postal receiver service, alterations & wig washing.

Telephone: 0151-356-8555 (Mon-Fri 9-5) 07931-311115 (out of hours)

e-mail: teela@trans-pose.com  Web: www.trans-pose.com

Transfixed

4c Beehive Mill, Jersey Street, Manchester, M4 6JG

A transgender Hair & Beauty salon in Manchester, providing wigs, full range of beauty treatments, nails, hairdressing, makeovers and photography in a fully equipped studio.

Telephone: 0161-923-6870

e-mail: info@transfixedonline.co.uk   Web: www.transfixedonline.co.uk

Sparkle

A weekend festival of all things transgender, held each year in Manchester in early July. A fun mix of social and support activities, including talks, workshops, meals, clubs, information and so much more.

Web: www.sparkle.org.uk 

 

At the March 2005 meeting of our discussion group, the following books were put forward as having been of particular interest in the areas of gender, identity, sexuality and transition.

Many of these titles are still in print and available for purchase via online booksellers such as Amazon. In some cases, used copies of out-of-print titles can be obtained from re-sellers through your Amazon account.

Copies of these titles should also be available through the public library service for those who would prefer to borrow rather than buy. Remember, by placing requests for these books and encouraging libraries to stock them, you are helping to put these titles within reach of other readers who may themselves be dealing with trans issues and are seeking good material.

•April Ashley's Odyssey (Duncan Fallowell and April Ashley) Jonathan Cape 1982

•Brainsex (Anne Moir and David Jessel) Michael Joseph 1989 / Mandarin 1991

•Dress Codes: of three girlhood's - my mother's, my father's, and mine (Noelle Howey) Picador USA 2002 / Virago 2003

•No Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity (Vanessa Baird) Verso 2001

•Feminizing hormonal therapy for the transgendered (Sheila Kirk) Together Lifeworks 1999

•Body Shock: Truth about changing sex (Liz Hodgkinson) Virgin Books 1987

•Gender Outlaw: on men, women, and the rest of us (Kate Bornstein) Vintage Books USA 1995

•The Woman I was not Born to Be: a transsexual journey (Aleshia Brevard) Temple University Press 2001

•Geraldine: for the love of a transvestite (Monica Jay) Caliban Books 1985 / Mandarin 1992

•Gender Play: girls and boys in school (Barry Thorne) Rutgers University Press 1993 / Open University Press 1993

•Conundrum (Jan Morris) Penguin 1997 / Faber and Faber 2002

•Gina: The Woman Within (Gina Large) Interactive Promotions and Publishing 2003

•Pomosexuals: challenging assumptions about gender and sexuality (Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel [eds.])

  Cleis Press 1997

•Finding the real me: true tales of sex and gender diversity (Tracie O'Keefe and Katrina Fox [eds]) Jossey Bass

  Wiley 2003

•Stephanie: a girl in a million (Stephanie Anne Lloyd and Sandra Sedgbeer) Ebury Press 1991

•I want what I want (Geoff Brown) Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1966

•Man into woman: the first sex change: a portrait of Lili Elbe (Niels Hoyer [ed.]) Blue Boat Books 2004

•Journal article: What is gender and who is transsexual/transgendered (Carl W.Bushong) - available online at

  www.docbushong.com/pubs/what_is_gender.asp

• Web page: Roberta Cowell: the first British transsexual - available online at

  www.transgenderzone.com/features/roberta_cowell.htm 

•Roberta Cowell's story, by herself (Roberta Cowell) Heinemann 1954