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Rye-ser-rin — She who travels. Rejserin is a place to explore ideas, culture, and identity. The primary focus of this Medium is tackling issues relating to what makes us who we are, especially the constructs we erect around gender, sexuality, and our cultures. The articles flow from the author’s lived…

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What is Rejserin anyhow?
What is Rejserin anyhow?
Blog

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4 hours ago

Blaire White, baby trans, and putting things into perspective

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…

Transgender

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Blaire White, baby trans, and putting things into perspective
Blaire White, baby trans, and putting things into perspective
Transgender

5 min read


1 day ago

Losing my hair, and then what?

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. …

LGBTQ

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Losing my hair, and then what?
Losing my hair, and then what?
LGBTQ

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3 days ago

LGBTQ history: Paragraph 175 and the invention of “homosexuality”

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…

LGBTQ

4 min read

LGBTQ history: Paragraph 175 and the invention of “homosexuality”
LGBTQ history: Paragraph 175 and the invention of “homosexuality”
LGBTQ

4 min read


4 days ago

Not trans enough, too trans to matter?

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…

Transgender

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Not trans enough, too trans to matter?
Not trans enough, too trans to matter?
Transgender

6 min read


5 days ago

Building bridges between trans folk and cis allies

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…

Transgender

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Building bridges between trans folk and cis allies
Building bridges between trans folk and cis allies
Transgender

4 min read


6 days ago

Is being trans normal?

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…

Transgender

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Is being trans normal?
Is being trans normal?
Transgender

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Jan 26

Trans women in Scottish prisons

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…

Transgender

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Trans women in Scottish prisons
Trans women in Scottish prisons
Transgender

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Jan 23

No true Scotswoman — defining womanhood

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…

Feminism

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No true Scotswoman — defining womanhood
No true Scotswoman — defining womanhood
Feminism

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Jan 18

How should we define sex and 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…

Transgender

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How should we define sex and gender?
How should we define sex and gender?
Transgender

4 min read

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