This piece is not written to influence how you vote in the general Election on June 8th. it’s too late for that and in my humble opinion getting May out of office is the prime requirement. My purpose was to understand where major parties stood on issues that were important to me as a transgender… Read More Transgender and LGBT++ Rights promised in UK Party Manifestos
Not the sexiest title to be sure and one that’ll not drive many clicks, but I write largely for me. I find writing helps clarify my thoughts, get a better perspective and maybe, hopefully is of interest to others. There are a number of things buzzing around in my head at the moment. In 14… Read More Thoughts on a cold day in April 2017 – looking forward to my gender confirmation surgery in May
Originally posted on Mid-Life Musings:
We read articles, blog posts and see videos where people talk about being fully transitioned or “post op”. This gets me thinking. What is it they mean by fully transitioned or post op? It feels like people use those two terms interchangeably. People talk about how things will be when…
Writing my post for Transgender Day of Visibility 2016 I noted that I was then out to only a few and pledged to be out to many by Transgender Day of Visibility 2017. Well a year has passed and where am I? With the exception of a few men who tend an allotment with me,… Read More New Packaging. Content Unchanged
Originally posted on Growing Up Transgender:
Yesterday our family watched in sadness and fear Trump’s callous and cruel actions against transgender children. We, and fellow parents of transkids in the UK wanted to reach out in solidarity with parents of transkids in the US, to let you know that we are thinking of you, and…
Originally posted on Rachel Williams:
There is a shockingly large contingent of Americans who believe that trans women should not have access to women-only spaces like bathrooms, locker rooms, shelters, prisons, women’s centers, lesbian spaces, festivals, etc. I will call this contingent the Birthers, because they usually say things like only females who had “female”…
In a couple of hours the 45th President of The United States is sworn in and the world looks on in both horror and with a bated breath. Tomorrow maybe 500,000 women will march in the US capital, together with sister marches in 61 cities on all 7 continents with maybe another 1.5 million taking part.… Read More Today I stand with my LGBT+ sisters and brothers
After a wait of some 13 months the day of my initial assessment by the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic comes around. Given that there was a tube drivers strike in London that day and the weather was awful (and thus virtually no taxis to be had), it turned out that my journey there was… Read More Into the Lion’s Den and ‘that programme’
“Man, they said we better, accentuate the positive / Eliminate the negative / Latch on to the affirmative / Don’t mess with Mister In-Between…” Words by Johnny Mercer Transphilosopher wrote The psychiatric conception sees the desire for HRT/GCS as pathological, as a medical condition to be fixed, cured, or managed. While it is true that… Read More Accentuate the Positive
Happy New Year I had a most interesting conversation with a friend (Polly) yesterday when she mentioned that she and her teenage daughters had watched a broadcast of the film ‘Pride’. Pride tells the story of a group ‘Gays and lesbians support the miners’ during the miners strike in 1984. The film is based on… Read More Let’s spread some love and understanding as we start 2017
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