GWHF – Girls Wanna Have Fun

Two transgender people founded GWHF in 1995 to exchange experiences and take part in outings together in public. The group identifies as part of the LGBTQI* community and brings people together through a shared interest in transgender experiences and issues.[1]

Its participants today include active and interested people who identify only partly, or not at all, with traditional gender roles. The invitation also extends to relatives, friends and acquaintances, explicitly including people from participants’ personal lives alongside those with their own relevant experiences.[1]

Public meetings take place monthly and welcome LGBTQI* people. Mutual support among people with shared interests is one of the group’s stated principles. Personal exchange sits alongside its founding idea of sharing experiences and going on outings together in public.[1]

People registered as active participants attend meetings with varying regularity, and their ideas are welcome. They may receive invitations to workshops or requests to help. A core team handles organisation, communication and networking, as well as ideas and concerns raised by active participants.[1]

LGBTQI* people can attend the monthly meetings alone or with someone else. The group asks for respectful behaviour and specifies that attendees should not be seeking sexual contacts at the meetings. This condition forms an explicit part of its invitation to the public gatherings.[1]

There are no membership fees, and all work for GWHF is voluntary. Costs that arise are covered as needed through voluntary contributions and donations. People wishing to contribute can register as active participants. According to the website, that registration creates no statutory or association-law rights or obligations.[1]

The website brings together contact, registration and newsletter options. It distinguishes registration as an active participant, including the newsletter, from a newsletter-only subscription. Existing participants can also use a profile-update function, while a separate newsletter unsubscribe option allows them to stop receiving the newsletter.[1]

A full withdrawal option requests deletion of all data, active-participant registration and the newsletter subscription. Anyone wishing to have a photograph removed from the gallery or elsewhere on the website is directed to contact GWHF about its removal.[1]