Support Mechanisms Check

Test whether your support mechanisms exist in practice

Twenty questions on inclusion, learning routes, contribution, challenge and direct provision — about what your organisation has built, not about how anyone feels.

Written down is not the same as working.

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Four ascending blocks forming a staircase, with a shield bearing a tick, a speech bubble, a signpost and an open doorway linked by fine lines — routes and provision people can actually use.

Mechanisms, not feelings

This check asks what the organisation has built and could show. Nothing here asks a trans person to report on their own experience — hearing from people directly is a separate piece of work, and one that needs more care than a web form can offer.

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Now you have your result, what next?

  • The full Diagnostic

    The full organisational audit, scored across five dimensions of inclusion, with a documented result you can take to a board. The natural next step once a check has shown you where the gap is.

  • Readiness Check

    The broad one: where your organisation stands overall, benchmarked against 136 UK organisations. Start here if you are not sure which gap you have.

  • Toilets & Facilities Check

    Your toilets, accessible provision, signage and facilities policy — the questions that most often arrive as a live complaint.

  • Preventative Duty Check

    The employer duty to take reasonable steps BEFORE sexual harassment happens (all reasonable steps from 30 October 2026) — what you have in place, and what a tribunal would look for.

  • Third-Party Harassment Check

    In England, Wales and Scotland, from 30 October 2026, an employer can be liable where a customer, client or service user harasses an employee in a way related to a relevant protected characteristic and the employer failed to take all reasonable steps to prevent it. This checks what you have in place, including for conduct aimed at trans colleagues.

The background behind these questions — the same material the assessment points you to once it has your answers.

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Trans-Inclusion Training That Holds Up

Completion rates prove nothing. A guide to designing trans-inclusion training that changes decisions — and to evaluating whether it actually did.