The recent tragic incidents involving the stabbing of trans women and girls by both strangers and people they knew personally underscores the importance of personal safety for everyone, but especially young people (who are more…
Foreword Four years ago, I wrote my initial blog about the problems and issues with seeking help for sexual violence as a trans person. Today I find myself writing another. Writing this post has been…
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…
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…