
Three quiet questions to help you listen to yourself.
Try the quiz →Counselling is genuinely helpful for trans people and for people who support them, but only when it is affirmative and supportive. Good counselling helps you navigate real challeng…
Carol grieved the husband she thought she had married, felt guilty for grieving at all, and spent a year working out whether she was still in love with Ruth.

Trans people in prison have legal rights to dignity, safety, and protection from discrimination. The Equality Act 2010 protects them through the characteristic of gender reassignme…
Angela Y Davis argues that refusing to acknowledge the full diversity of gender, cisgender, transgender, gender fluid, and gender non-conforming, disarms everyone. The rigid binary…
Zola dreaded telling her Sunday league football team she was trans, and found that belonging was already hers before she said a word.


The real dangers women face are domestic abuse, sexual violence, street harassment, and coercive control, not trans people in bathrooms. Trans people make up roughly 0.5% of the UK…
Kabir braced for rejection when he came out as a trans man to his watch, and found instead that the men he worked with simply got on with it.
Try she, he and they on for size. Nothing fixed, no pressure.
Try the quiz →If you have been taken off an NHS gender clinic waiting list, ask your GP to re-refer you straight away and request a written explanation from the clinic. Reinstatement is sometime…
Puberty blockers are banned on private prescription for trans young people in the UK, and NHS access has become effectively impossible. Many families I hear from are travelling to …
Dani stood at her front door for eleven minutes before she finally stepped outside as herself, and what she found on the other side was sunshine, a dog barking, and a world that wa…
It's time to really understand the beauty of diversity, the meaning of equality, and how to include everyone so that we all have a place in this world. Diversity is the full, ordin…
Margaret was a grandfather of sixty-three, sitting in a kitchen at two in the morning with the screen brightness turned down, when she finally pressed the checkout button on her fi…

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