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Who do you turn to first when gender services let you down?
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Am I trans?
Three quiet questions to help you listen to yourself.
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How do you know if you are trans?
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If only rights were as easy to get as a bowl of tomato soup with a swirl of cream 🏳️⚧️
What trans people taught me about transition
Helen has spent years listening to people who have transitioned. What they told her, in kitchens and waiting rooms and long emails sent late at night, changed how she understood…
The Voice singer Ciiara Nyx says music helped her navigate her trans identity
Beyond depathologisation: Securing the right to health for trans communities
Online hate against trans people is not acceptable
Online hate targeting trans people is not acceptable, full stop. The same standards we apply to racist or homophobic abuse must apply to transphobic comments, whether they appear…
I'm trans – why don't I belong on a women's ward?
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What are my pronouns?
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Texas GOP leader says anti-trans ads are not working
Every single one of them a tomato. Not one of them the same. 🍅
Learning to love your voice in transition
Mei spent months relearning her voice in secret, until one Tuesday phone call made her realise the smallest reclamations land the hardest.
A girl just wanted to run. Then came the protest.
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Sam Forstag refuses to throw trans people under the bus
What happens when trans people don't fit the system
When trans people don't fit the system, they carry the cost: mismatched documents, forms with no right box, care pathways built for one kind of story, and waits that run for…
He murdered a woman. A court overturned his conviction because the victim was trans.
Daughters of the American Revolution axes chapter that challenged transgender membership
An autistic man's question about trans care and who it's for
An autistic man who spent decades quietly finding himself asked Sammy whether the same child, born into today's world, would have been guided somewhere he was never meant to go.
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