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  1. Welcome proudautie

    Have you tried contacting your local NAS branch in Manchester regarding the lack of access for trans services? Im not sure if you access facebook? There is an account called 'scott grant' which if you add will allow TMSA to add you to their secret facebook group.

    You can change your name legally by contacting an organisation that produces 'deed polls' or 'statutory declarations' all you need is one witness or two. Mencap or MIND might also be able to help you get the help you need.

    "How can I best support somebody with a learning disability who is lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender (LGBT)? 

    Some people with a learning disability are lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender (LGBT), or they might be questioning their sexual orientation or gender. You can best support them by talking to them about being LGBT, and reassuring them that it this is okay to be LGBT.

    It is best practice for staff to be proactive in ensuring that the support and information they provide around sex and relationships is inclusive of LGBT people. In the provision of services there is a duty under the Equality Act 2010 to provide equality of opportunity to individuals with protected characteristics, including sexual orientation and gender reassignment.

    There are resources available to help you support LGBT people with a learning disability:

    https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/lgbtq-mental-health/#.WTslnuvyvIU

    i have heard good things about MIND being LGBTQ friendly, in some areas there is a trans mindline

    http://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/our-services/gender-identity-service/ there is a telephone number on there, try ringing and explaining your situation to them. Ask them to help you fill in the forms, I have support workers help me fill in forms because my handwriting is poor. Explain to them you can't find anyone who is willing to help you fill in the forms.


  2. It makes me ill i cry everynight in shower all my knecks in spasam paine in all my joints with the stress hes better of at home but hes makeing life hell now hes saying he wont go on family holiday but we cant leave him home alone hubby says course hell go on holiday but what happens if day we go he refuses what then im so tired so fed up

    You thought about sending him on a holiday for people with disabilities? Then you both get a break. i went to Cornwall on a holiday for people with learning disabilities whilst my gran and aunt went to France, picking me up on the way home.


  3. Yes and I only got my pip on grounds of my physical health needs. My autism was disregarded. It's how you describe your sons needs that they take into account.

     

    Hope you're gp can help you. Don't know what mine said but it did help. Can you get help from a local nas branch or mind or mencap? They helped my family over the years even when the NHS left me to rot.


  4. I've just looked them up and it appears to be a volunteer run only organisation. You have a number of options here, 1, make a complaint to their manager regarding the way you have been treated. Include specific examples of things they've said or done with dates if possible. 2, leave and concentrate on the group that's giving you respect. 3, try and find another group to meet your needs.

     

    I run a social inclusion project in bath. If you are interested in attending please pm me. We meet near to Bath railway and bus stations.


  5. Completely forgot about this post. Wow now I'm running my own social group in bath hoping for it to become a community interest company. I won the disability studies prize at university and I'm up for entrepreneur of the year in the same place. I've got a meeting about it today at university.


  6. I'm quite phone phobic about strangers because I can become nonverbal on the phone. Strangers are unpredictable, frightening and confusing. I'm quite verbal with people in person but struggle on the phone. We end up both talking over each other and I can't remember the conversation later.

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