Trans women in the UK face numerous challenges, including limited access to healthcare, pervasive discrimination, and significant mental health impacts. These issues are compounded by systemic biases and lack of awareness about the specific needs…
What Is Dilating and Why Is It Important? Transitioning comes with many exciting changes, but some aspects of it can feel like navigating uncharted territory. If you’ve recently undergone surgery to create a vagina, two…
Even before the publication of the Cass Report, academics warned of “misleading trans health research”. There were cautions about the current political climate where trans people in general, and trans young people in particular were recognised as being heavily stigmatized and marginalized amid pervasive anti-transgender rhetoric in British and American media.
More than 20 clinicians and academics in the field of transgender healthcare have critically appraised the methodology and conclusions of the Cass report using the ROBIS tool
Renowned anti-trans psychotherapist Robert Withers, senior partner of the Rock Clinic in Brighton, has been found guilty of three counts of misconduct and narrowly avoided being struck off, we can reveal. The UKCP found him…
Scaremongering is often used by anti-trans activists to promote a feeling of fear: something which motivates people to act. Furthermore, psychology has shown that repeated tropes, whether true or not if repeated often enough tend…
Liberty, Amnesty International UK and Human Rights Watch have made a joint statement decrying the treatment of ts, trans, intersex and non-binary people signaling serious concerns about the human rights of such individuals.
On Oct 19th, Charlie Evans went on Sky News and claimed there were 100s of people seeking help detransitioning. The UK media were quick to support their narrative. It was picked up by The Telegraph…
Oxfordshire council scrapping the integration of trans and cis girls heralds the start of an apartheid system starting from the bottom up. The question is, once removing the right of trans girls to integrate into…
Recently, we responded to claims that only a small minority of trans people physically transition by polling our members, and the results were telling. Although merely a poll on facebook, it nonetheless captures a snapshot of trans people and stands in the face of objections that “very few” trans people actually transition.
When Liz truss announced to a government select comittee taking forward the proposals to simplify the gender recognition process for trans people, we heard a complete u-turn. Instead of recieving reassurances that we would not have to go through such an ordeal as: making our lives up for judgement by procuring mounds of evidence to a panel of strangers, without recourse to appeal; she did the exact opposite
WPATH has released a statement about the faux “diagnosis” ROGD, or rapid onset gender dysphoria, urging restraint in using any term to:
“instill fear about the possibility that an adolescent may or may not be transgender with the a priori goal of limiting consideration of all appropriate treatment options”