There are too many links to usefully include them all in one file, so we’ve split them up into various categories, roughly mirroring the structure of this website:

Employment | Gender politics | Medical | Intersex | Legal | News | Parliamentary | Politics & government | Trans organisations

The internet has been a particularly powerful tool for trans people, allowing us to communicate with each other and to make our voices heard to the rest of the world.

Geographically dispersed, it is hard for trans people to form local communities; economically marginalised, it’s difficult to finance the printing and distribution of written materials. So historically, most writing about trans people has been by others describing us: medics pathologising us, sociologists using us as testing grounds for their analyses of society, journalists writing about us as objects of scorn or shock or pity … the list is long and depressing.

	Another power relationship changes …

But now, any internet search on keywords such as “transgender” will bring up thousands of web pages, visible evidence of an explosion of trans people writing about themselves. For the first time, actual stories of trans lives are available from those who live them rather than being filtered through the lens of people who make a living out of observing us, or restricted to a select few who succeed in publishing autobiographical accounts. The internet has empowered those of us who have access to it.

But with so much material available, it can be hard to find your way around. For those participating in the growing international campaign to assert the rights of trans people, the particular difficulty is that much of the material available is about personal stories, social groupings, or options for medical treatment: valuable material, but not directly relevant for a campaigner.

So these links pages focus carefully on campaigning. We don’t include links to personal homepages, and we don’t try to list all the many valuable resources on medical treatment — that information is best collated by the support groups to whom we do provide links. The links which we do want to include are to material about legal rights, and abuses of them; information on access to medical treatment, though not on the nature of such treatments; sources of news; pointers to government, political and legal information; and many other websites which may not have “trans” stamped on them, but which will assist campaigners.

Inevitably, there will be lots of things we’ve missed: so if you know of a website to which we should provide a link, please let us know by email to editor@pfc.org.uk. Please include in your email the URL and a brief description of the website, and why you think it is relevant to campaigners.