Transgender Awareness Week (13 November - 19 November) is a week when support and awareness is raised for our transgender community.
Transgender Awareness Week runs from Monday 13 November to Sunday 19 November, with Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) taking place on 20 November, which commemorates the lives lost to anti-transgender violence.
Most people in the UK claim never to have met anyone who is trans or non-binary. Public lack of awareness of the lives, experiences, and histories of this long-marginalized group remains widespread. With increasing numbers of students identifying as trans or non-binary, both at Westminster and elsewhere, Transgender Awareness Week seeks to promote understanding.
Upcoming event
- Westminster Conversations: "Coming Out & Staying Out" Westminster LGBT+ Forum (Wednesday 22 November, 6pm to 9pm)
Join us at our Westminster Conversations series for an evening of testimony, support, and celebration. It takes courage to come out it takes support and inclusion to stay out.
We will be featuring “Coming Out” accounts of some of our colleagues as well as hearing from some of the many LGBTQ+ community groups and organisations who offer support, advice, and safe spaces to enable us to be ourselves.
This event is in partnership with Westminster City Council, the University of Westminster, The King of Soho gin and Fever-Tree tonic.
Find out more and book your place to the event.
Support and resources available
Visit our Student Wellbeing page to access advice, guidance and support services that can help you enhance your physical, mental and emotional health.
Our Report and Support platform also allows you to report and receive support with incidents of discrimination, harassment, bullying or any other negative, unwanted behaviour.
Check the UWSU website if you would like to find out more about the LGBTI+ Student Society.
Trans and non-binary people are well-represented in both the Q+ colleague network and in the student LGBTI Society. As part of Transgender Awareness Week, we draw attention to the personal reflections some of these colleagues have published upon their lived experiences, including Professor Pippa Catterall, Professor of History and Policy and Co-chair of Q+ colleague Network:
As a University that is progressive, compassionate, and responsible, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is a matter of more than mere compliance.
Check our Equality, diversity and inclusion policies and procedures page for more information.
