Meet our new Glasgow Transgender and Mental Health Worker: Kay

I’m Kay (they/them) and I’m LGBT Health Glasgow Transgender Support and Mental Health new Development Worker.

I’m excited to be doing work within the LGBTQ+ community and I hope to tie in my own experiences of queerness in with my experience working in community development.

My background is in youth work especially centred around individualised support, training delivery and employability. I also recently became a volunteer with the Substance Use Community Champions, a project LGBT Health and Wellbeing are involved in to help tackle inequalities around substance use and accessing support within the LGBTQ+ community.

I’ll be involved in 1 to 1 support within both projects and the Trans Wednesday group and any future GTSP projects. I’ve used similar services myself in the past and found them invaluable in growing into my own confident, authentic self and forming friendships within the LGBTQ+ community and I’m passionate about creating spaces that support others to do the same.

Outside of work I love cooking, video games, watching wrestling and anywhere with a mosh pit (the best one I’ve ever been to and probably ever will had a bake sale.) I’ve already met some of you at the first Trans Wednesday I attended, and I look forward to meeting more of you as the weeks go by and getting to know you all better (and any pets that happen to wander on screen!)