From Research to Practice: The Pilots and the Four Questions They're Answering
Three live pilot programmes are testing specific, unanswered questions about identity after transition. Here's what we're actually trying to find out.
A pilot is not a proof point, it's a live test of a question we genuinely don't know the answer to yet.
Trafford Veterans CIC, Out in the Bay and Red Rose Recovery are each testing a different edge of the same framework: does our emerging four-stage sequence hold outside the military, does preparing in advance reduce disruption, do internal coping strategies outlast external ones, and is coaching, not therapy, the right model at all.
The full paper sets out how each pilot is built to find out. It's available to download below.
Author: Gemma Gardner. Publisher: AURIS. Published July 2026.
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