To state an obvious, feminist, point: the gender/sex you are assigned at birth does not and should not dictate the path you follow through life. No matter the culture or society you inhabit, what sex/gender marker you are assigned by a doctor at birth inherently gives other people a conception…

At one point in my life I was a pretty, not so little, slim, white trans girl with a significant amount of passing privilege. Naïve, isolated, not a clue in the world, and one suicide attempt later. Within the trans* community we perceive passing as a goal for many reasons…

In English who you are attracted to, who you sleep with, who you have relationships with, are all framed as your personal sexuality. This emphasis on the physical form, of the sex of the other person or persons, frames attraction, desire, and intimacy as a physical concept rooted in biology…

Students at the University of Edinburgh barred the entrance to screenings of Adult Human Female, a gender critical documentary seeking to interrogate and demolish what the producers call trans ideology. In doing so, the students have stepped into a long history of deplatforming, while also giving additional airtime to the…

Trans communities pass down a narrative of self that essentially says that you were trapped in the wrong body, or something felt wrong, or that you have extreme gender dysphoria if you wish to wear the trans label. Your becoming, your transition from cis to trans, comes down to a…

The moment you step out of cis manhood you body becomes inherently politicised. Women, regardless of gender identity, have been controlled, corralled, and coerced throughout history. Trans men and non-binary folk face lesser bio politics, yet are still scrutinised and rendered outside of cis male privilege by society at large…

British government ministers and US states in April 2023 seem intent on forcing all people anyone suspects of being trans to tell the questioning person their assigned gender at birth. As any trans person will tell you, forcing someone to disclose their gender history or gender identity is one of…

Hope is a dangerous thing. To grasp onto a lifeline, to reel yourself in, to be reborn under surgical lights. Then to wake. Oh my, to wake and feel the bliss of knowing one’s true self. They say that to be me, to be in this body, is pain wracked…

Who gets to be a drag queen? Gay men, trans women, cis women, all of them? When drag queens are portrayed as hyper sexual those pointing the finger assume that drag, hyper femininity, is by its very nature a sexual thing. To be a drag queen is to be performative…