Project: Out/Doors is : Gendered Intelligence Trans Youth Camping Residential

We want to take up to twenty young people and support workers on a camping residential this August to enjoy a range of fun, healthy outdoor activities and enjoy all that nature has to offer in a safe, supportive and creative environment. This, we hope, will allow them to be themselves, fully and un-apologetically, without fear of scrutiny from the outside world.

Activities include:
Raft building
Kayaking
Rock climbing
Adventure Course
Creative workshops

For some young trans people, what may seem like an everyday activity can be very restricting to them. Many sport activities and leisure centres are very gender specific and can make trans youth feel uncomfortable or unable to join in.

At Project Out/Doors we aim to provide a safe space for young trans people to simply be that - young, and “out” whilst being outdoors.

Gendered Intelligence Philosophy

Our identity as a man or a woman is often taken for granted, but sex and gender come about through a combination of biological and social factors that build our individual identity. When we begin to investigate who we are, locating why we are a ‘man’ or a ‘woman’, a ‘boy’ or a ‘girl’, things can become very complex. If you think about what happens when certain behaviors which are traditionally carried out by one gender, are lived by an other, you can see quickly how roles, jobs, appearances and behaviours, even ways of thinking are all gendered activities.

In this way then we might say that gender is not something that you are, or have, but is something that you do. For us, it is important to nurture and develop the individual, in order that we all may live in a world where a greater freedom of expression and a wider and richer spectrum of identities can co-exist.

Project: Out/Doors

As part of our annual activities at our Gendered Intelligence Youth Group, for some camping is the highlight of the year for both young people and staff.

Each year we make every effort to keep the cost of Project Out/Doors low and are proud to say that we will be able to offer this year's experience to twenty campers for under £4,000.

But for the project to happen this year we need your help.

Gendered Intelligence is a small organisation, and like many small organisations is feeling the heat of the current sector cuts. In spite of this, we are dedicated to Project Out/doors and are committed to making it happen again this year. Please donate what you can.

Approximate Cost:
£2,500 for food, lodging, and site fees for 20 young people and 4 workers for four days
£500 for Transportation and staff
£500 for Group activities and materials