Mermaids is a UK based charity that offers support to transgender and gender variant children and young people, their families and supporting professionals. Mermaids provide helpline and email support services, parents and teens online forums, training into schools, social services, and many other agencies supporting children, residential family weekends, local groups at 8 locations nationwide, campaigning and advocacy, speaking at conferences and events nationwide, raising awareness by attending Pride and other LGBT events, young trans people and their families, advisory liaison service with EHRC, DofE, GEO and other agencies to help identify and combat poor practice. Mermaids was founded in the UK in 1995 and has grown to provide UK wide support to thousands of families with transgender or gender non-conforming children. Last year Mermaids supported over 4,000 people plus reached over 350 professionals working with young people.