Transgender clubs

LGBT+ Sports Club Finder

That’s club as in nightclub, not football club. You don’t need to be ‘a member’, wear a special kit or have any particular skill for bowling. So there are no pre-requisites for attendance.

We were founded in 2017 by newlyweds Marc & Luke — who had just moved to Manchester, and had no idea how to make friends in a new municipality. They invited the few people they knew to arrive bowling one Wednesday, and extended the invite to friends-of-friends. The rest, as they say, is history.

In the years since, we’ve expanded our presence to cities across the UK, helped forge hundreds of novel friendships, and proudly represented the UK at international Gay ten-pin tournaments across Europe.

It turns out, queer people everywhere need a way of making recent friends.

If you’re one of them, we’d love to encounter you sometime.

Love and pins,

Team GCB x

P.S. Don’t let the name fool you - everyone from across the rainbow is welcome, not just gay men. It was just too good a wordplay to resist.

Club for Queer, Transsexual , Nonbinary, Gender-Expansive, Queer Teens

This group is for binary trans, nonbinary transgender, gender-expansive, nonbinary, agender, homosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual person, pansexual, or any other youths who fall under the LGBTQ spectrum to socialize and give experiences. Youths will interact via inhabit video chat. Discussion will be facilitated and will authorize space for social discussion and opportunities to connect with similarly situated peers and seek assist around particular difficulties faced by the youths. The collective may also involve directed teaching of skills that youths can use to self-advocate, as requested by the youths or when a need is noted by facilitator. Organization flow will largely follow the conduct of the youths rather than any structured curriculum. Organization sessions often revolve around students volunteering to share accomplishments, photos, videos, favorite music, and the like. Some groups may include playing social games on the Zoom platform or using external websites. These will always be family-friendly and will never involve gaming with students outside of the Outschool class. Groups may at times focus heavily on LGBTQ-specific topics

Guest postfrom a teacher who now questions his decision to arrange up an LGBT club at his school.

I am choosing to remain anonymous because I am still a teacher and don’t have the strength or force to withstand the inevitable criticism that will be made about this article. I also undertake not want the school I worked in or the children I looked after to be identified for obvious reasons. I have decided to write this because I feel it incumbent on me to describe my own experiences as a mentor of gender dysphoric teenagers. I also fear that well-meaning LGBT teachers who don’t subscribe to gender identity theory will be affected by the inevitable backlash against the teachers who accomplish. I refer to myself as same-sex attracted, rather than homosexual, in order to be specific about what this particular aspect of my identity means.

Before I reflect on my experiences creating and running an LGBT club at school, I want first of all to say that most teachers are out of their depth in this area specifically, and mental health generally. The main concern for teachers is (and should be) education kids a particular subject, be it history, art or physics. Their job is not (and should not be) c

Transgender Use of Health Club Locker Rooms

Do you realize what to do when a member who identifies as transgender wants to use the locker room of the gender they identify with—not necessarily the sex they anatomically match?

These days, a frequent topic of discussion is the use of public bathrooms and locker rooms by transgender individuals. While some proclaim that it’s about time that they be granted this right, others are adamant that it shouldn’t be allowed.

For the general public, this may be just another debate about societal norms, albeit an often heated one. For club operators, however, there are significant business implications. What do you do when a member who identifies as trans wants to use the locker room of the gender they identify with—not necessarily the sex they anatomically match?

Discrimination and Privacy

You may be living in a city or a state where denying trans access to locker rooms and bathrooms is considered discrimination under the regulation. On the other hand, what about your other members’ right to privacy?

To date, 21 states, the District of Columbia, and a significant number of major cities have passed laws making it illegal to pro