We’ve had a great day at the
#agender2019
conference today. Here’s the ‘Dream Team’ (Executive Committee) with Jonathan Slater (Civil Service LGB&TI champion). Thanks to all those who came to support!
To all of our members; we are here for you. Please talk about how you are feeling. Talk to your loved ones, your friends and talk to us - the world may seem a lonely place right now but together we can support each other.
Our first in-person event for 20 months, it's great to be back! If you're at the CS Local NW Wellbeing Winter Wonderland event in Liverpool today, come and say hello 👋😊
Absolutely delighted to have a visit from John Manzoni at the a:gender stall today. And this time he didn’t eat all our cake 😂
#CivilServiceLive
#Manchester
Our Executive Committee were honoured to represent our members at a meeting with
@PermSecDfE
,
@cslgbt
and the civil servants behind the famous door at Number 10 today.
We are so proud of our chair
@MrsEmmaDunn
. If you need an intersex/trans-inclusive feminist speaker at your civil service event, please get in touch. 💜🌈
Today, 14th July, is International Non-Binary People's Day. It's only been on the calendar since 2012 (halfway between international Women's day and International Men's Day) but non-binary identities are nothing new - recognised by many cultures for thousands of years.
Our chair
@MrsEmmaDunn
looking good on our stall at
#OTGWellbeingCamp
at Cloth Hall in Leeds today. If you’re attending, please come and say hello - WE HAVE FREE CAKE! 🍰😋
We are delighted to share some space on our stall with the lovely Matt from
@cslgbt
network today. Come and find us on stand 8.
We love a bit of cross-network cooperation! 🏳️🌈
#CivilServiceLive
#Manchester
We were delighted to be invited to speak at
@H_S_E
today at a joint event organised by their Gender Equality and LGBT+ networks.
Thank you for making us so welcome, we’re looking forward to working with you again soon! 🏳️🌈
Our chair
@MrsEmmaDunn
in full flow today, presenting our new
#trans
and
#intersex
awareness package to some amazingly receptive and engaged delegates from CS Local in Wales. 🏴
We have a:gender reps at
#CivilServiceLive
in
#Birmingham
this morning; we don’t have our own stand so we’re sharing with the magnificent folks from
@HMRCgovuk
D&I team on stand 30. X-govt cooperation at its finest!
A privilege to hear
@MrsEmmaDunn
talk about her experiences as an Intersex person. Tears, laughter and tears of laughter. What an incredible human being!
@agendergovuk
@MODLGBT
We’re on stall C1 today at
#CivilServiceLive
in Manchester, with our lovely colleagues from
@cslgbt
.
There’s loads of us here to chat to you, and we have tons of goodies, come and say hello! 👋
Today is National Day for Staff Networks and we are working harder than ever,
#AddingValue
for
@UKCivilService
by continuing to provide confidential and mutual support within a safe environment for our members alongside our colleagues in
@cslgbt
and
@CivilServiceDI
Congrats to our
@Soulgirl32
who has been shortlisted for the Civil Service "Championing LGBTI Inclusion" Award 2018. We’re so proud - good luck Emma! 👏🏆
#CSAwards
#ChampionDifference
Lovely to see
@RNHeaton
again at the a:gender stall today. Embarrassingly, we’ve run out of Banana Loaf but we’ll have some for you next time!
#CivilServiceLive
Here’s our chair Jen Gagg, and Exec Committee members Steph Calvert and Emma Dunn with the wonderful Caroline Airs, ready for our event this evening at
@hmtreasury
How about this for cross-government working? Colleagues from
@DWP
Pride kindly allowed us and members of
@HMRCgovuk
Prism network to share their stall after we couldn’t secure stalls of our own. 🥰🏳️🌈
#CivilServiceLive
#LGBTI
#Inclusion
Is your government building flying the
#Intersex
flag for
#IntersexAwarenessDay
tomorrow? Tag us and we’ll retweet you!
Here’s a beautiful sight; the Intersex flag flying at
@HMLandRegistry
’s
#Fylde
office. Well done HM Land Registry! 👏🏼🙌🏼😍
Great to see this year’s results - congratulations to all those that made the list, which for the first time is a fully trans-inclusive index.
#StonewallTop100
And another esteemed guest! We were delighted to be visited by
@PermSecDfE
today. He said our stall was the best 💅🏼
(It might have been the chocolate cake 😂)
#CivilServiceLive
#Manchester
'Thank you' seems wholly inadequate but not much else seems to fit rn; thank you
@_JonathanSlater
, your unstinting support of our little network has been, and remains, fantastic.
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Along with vital department, agency and cross government networks, we work for a civil service that empowers people regardless of gender reassignment, identity and expression. We wish all our members, friends&allies a very happy
#TDOV
#TDOV2018
!
Feedback wall from today’s intersex awareness talk at
@HMLandRegistry
Nottingham office delivered by our chair
@MrsEmmaDunn
.
Thanks so much for inviting us and for so many lovely comments! 🏳️🌈
We’re on stall A11 at
#CivilServiceLive
in the ExCel in London today with our friends from
@cslgbt
. Today we’ve been joined by a very special volunteer,
@JimHarraHMRC
!
He’s eating all our chocolates so if you want some, you’d better visit us quick 😳😂
Thank you to all the speakers and volunteers at our conference today. A positive vibe throughout! And a thank you to the delegates! Amazing all of you. 👏
It’s
#TransDayOfVisibility
so we’re sending warm wishes to trans people everywhere. Whether you’ve transitioned, are transitioning, or your transition is in the future, you are valid and loved. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
(Also wishing a
#HappyEaster
to all who celebrate! 🐣✝️)
Thank you to
@NML_Muse
&
@walkergallery
for hosting
@agendergovuk
today &enabling us to deliver awareness training to 65 incredibly engaged staff members. Important to share how to support trans, non binary, gender diverse&Intersex folk in the workplace
@DCMS
@CivilServiceDI
We’ve never tried to get
@seen_network
shut down. We defend the right of all civil servants to hold ‘gender-critical’ beliefs. We welcome SEEN representing their members’ ideological beliefs.
We don’t accept the unlawful harassment of colleagues with the PC of gender reassignmnt
And another mention for our network from the fantastic
@KeelaShackell
who is delivering a session on ‘Leading from the Middle’ at
@WiLeadership_UK
- we can’t wait to work with you Keela! 🤝
#WiL20
We’d like to make it clear that while we represent members who overwhelmingly have the protected characteristic (PC) of ‘gender reassignment’ (GR), we’re clear that ‘sex’ and ‘sexual orientation’ are also PCs defined in the EqA2010 & that these should NEVER be conflated with GR.
Delighted to hear our network mentioned by Dame Shan Morgan during her opening address at today’s
@WiLeadership_UK
conference. She told everyone how proud she was that
@WelshGovernment
won a Gold award in our Trans & Intersex Policy (TIP) standards 🏆
#WiL20
Delighted to be given the opportunity to promote our network at ‘We Are Bristol’, a fantastic inclusivity event at
@HMRCgovuk
’s new Bristol Regional Centre.
As is now tradition, we have a bribe for new members in the form of some home made CAIK!
#LemonDrizzle
#Bait
Did you know you can call on us to offer advice & support on issues facing trans and intersex staff? Over the past year we’ve delivered over 75 awareness events & presentations reaching around 3000 civil servants!
#AddingValue
@CivilServiceDI
@Day4Networks
Market Stall ready (complete with chocs) to chat with new colleagues at the London edition of the Environment Agency’s ‘Welcome’ day roadshow
@EnvAgencySE
@EnvAgency
. Great event!
An honour and a pleasure to have a visit from Fiona Ryland, Government Chief People Officer, who stopped by our stall for a photo at
#CivilServiceLive
(and didn’t even steal any chocolate!)
Today is Transgender Day of Visibility.
Give our friends
@agendergovuk
a
follow to find out about all the hard work they do on making the Civil Service a great place to work for trans and intersex staff.
We stand with you!
#TDOV
Come what may in the press or online, a:gender is here to offer confidential support to all trans, non-binary and intersex staff across government departments and agencies. With love to all our members, friends and allies this Valentine’s Day.
A blog for trans awareness week written by our Exec Secretary, Gemma Kinsey, as she reflects on a childhood memory.
Many thanks to
#TeamEA
@EnvAgency
.
We’re here to support all trans, non-binary and intersex staff, their friends, relatives and allies across government departments and agencies. No matter how you identify, if you have questions, doubts or worries, please get in touch.
They might have stolen our purple umbrella, but we have had the BEST time at
#CivilServiceLive
with the gorgeous folks from
@cfcs_uk
. Please go and say hi to them if you haven’t already! ☂️💜☂️
12% of Trans people have been assaulted by a colleague or customer. If you need help, a:gender offers support across Govt Depts and Agencies for all trans, non-binary and intersex staff, families and friends.
🚨UPDATE🚨
We now have our own stand! We can be found at stall number 4, please come and say hello!
#FreeCake
Many thanks to all the volunteers at
#CivilServiceLive
in
#Birmingham
who worked as a team to find us a space 🥰
We have a:gender reps at
#CivilServiceLive
in
#Birmingham
this morning; we don’t have our own stand so we’re sharing with the magnificent folks from
@HMRCgovuk
D&I team on stand 30. X-govt cooperation at its finest!
Good morning! Here at a:gender we believe in and work for a Civil Service which empowers and is inclusive of all our people, regardless of gender reassignment, gender identity, gender expression and intersex (1)
We’re at
#CivilServiceLive
in London again today and we’re so pleased that
@thommeread
stopped by for a selfie! Always so good to chat to our friends and allies 🥰
We are also
#AddingValue
by reaching out to our members via our new weekly online socials, kindly organised by our allies
@CivilServiceDI
. This gives us the chance to support each other through the unique challenges faced by trans and intersex staff at this time.
@Day4Networks
We are delighted to have shared with government department entrants the results of this year’s, Trans & Intersex Policy (TIP) Standards. Congratulations to those awarded gold status and well done to all who took part! More to follow :-)
We’re on stall B15 with our lovely friends from
@cslgbt
at
#CivilServiceLive
in Newcastle today, come and say hello, we have goodies! 💛💜💛
🖤💜🤍💛
🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Brilliant day in Sheffield last week, raising trans and intersex awareness. Many thanks to everyone that attended and to the HO for making us feel so welcome.
@SpectrumNetwork
🚨Are you intersex? Do you support someone who is?🚨
Calling all intersex people and their parents, friends and carers, this call for evidence closes tomorrow - please take part and make sure your voice is heard 📢
Fantastic session on Role Modelling Best Practice for LGB&TI Inclusion from Caroline Airs
@CivilServiceDI
with a video featuring our chair
@MrsEmmaDunn
. It started some great conversations!🏳️🌈
#CivilServiceLive