Who gets to decide what the trans narrative should be, or indeed to pass wisdom onto the next generation of trans and queer folk as they come out into the wider community? In the social media age it is a wide variety of voices, ranging from the far left in…

Three years ago today I shaved my head to reveal the full extent of my baldness, and it has not grown back since. As a woman I felt I lost something in the mirror back then, something raw and deeply personal, that I have never truly got back. …

This is the first in an ongoing series analysing LGBTQ history and the moments that shaped queer lives. In 1871 Prussia unified Germany and created the Second Reich. As part of this, the Prussian Criminal Code was adopted as the criminal legal code for the new nation, within which Paragraph…

If you state an opinion expect to get feedback, pushback, and people who misread what you say. Constructive conversations and engagement are great for sharpening ideas, crystalising thoughts, and progressing forwards. No-one has the full picture, and the great part of discussing queer ideas and theory is that there is…

In a common law democracy to get any form of legislation enacted, or bring a case to court to produce new case law, requires a series of people to both agree that these are wise courses of action and help push both over the line. The issue trans folk face…

Ask yourself this, why do you feel the gender that you know you are? Why are you male, female, or some shade of non-binary? Is it that you have put a lot of thought and contemplation into discovering this about yourself, or is it that you have never really thought…

This article discusses the following conversation between Nicola Sturgeon (SNP) and Douglas Ross (Conservative): https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/first-ministers-questions-january-26-2023?clip_start=12:00:28&clip_end=12:12:02 On 26th January 2023 Douglas Ross asked Nicola Sturgeon: Should a convicted rapist ever serve time in a women’s prison? This question was raised due to Isla Bryson, a trans woman, being convicted of rape…

One of the significant arguments thrown back in the face of transwomen is that women equals: “adult human female”, as if that has any extrinsic value other than to reduce women to their biology and the semantic meaning of the English language. English is both binary with respects to gender…

How do you solve a conundrum such as “gender”? Whose right is it to actually solve this, and more importantly, whose right is it to create a legal framework within which sex and gender can be conceptualised. That last question depends on where you live, with the courts and legislature…