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Pride flags at work are legal: tribunal backs DWP over LGBTQ+ displays
Starmer's resignation shows what happens when you abandon trans people
The pattern behind anti-trans policy is not random. It has a name.
AB Hernandez wins two CIF titles and doesn't care about the protesters
Am I trans?
Three quiet questions to help you listen to yourself.
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What are your values?
Who can you help?
Why it takes so long to come into your gender identity
Coming into a gender identity takes a long time. There is years of soul-searching, self-questioning, research, and quiet planning before any visible step, because this world is not…
Trans people in prison: what are their rights?
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…
LGBTQ+ Mental Health Resource Aims to Support Conversion Therapy Survivors in Africa
Chicago mayor declares 'trans femicide state of emergency'
What do you do?
Pennsylvania's first openly transgender mayor reflects on first months in office: 'We're all neighbors here'
If only the world's problems were as simple to solve as a toasted sandwich 🥪
Transitioning at 62: it is absolutely time to go for it
Transitioning at 62 is absolutely possible, and people do it successfully all the time. I've been told about someone transitioning in Australia in under four months at 62, and that…
Using public toilets as a trans person
A trans woman learns to navigate the daily calculation of which door to push open, and discovers that the law and lived reality rarely feel the same.
How the New York Times turned trans lives into a debate
Who are you?
The FTC is coming for WPATH again. Here is what is at stake.
Just listen to yourself
Listen to yourself. Listen to how you feel, what lands right when someone uses a particular name or pronoun, what feels good in the mirror, what clothes feel like yours. Try things…
Glamour UK's trans women cover wins Cover of the Year
Glamour UK's Women of the Year cover featuring nine trans women won Cover of the Year at the Professional Publishing Association Awards in June 2026. The cover, released in October…
When trans people run out of patience with Stonewall
EHRC guidance puts trans people at real daily risk
What are my pronouns?
Try she, he and they on for size. Nothing fixed, no pressure.
Try the quiz →What Mara taught the teenager she used to be
Mara spent a decade finding her way without a guide, then became one for a frightened teenager, and discovered that teaching someone else the map changed her too.
Briel and Adam Adams-Wheatley celebrate five years of love
If only every difficult journey came with a three-cheese toastie at 30,000 feet. ✈️
What makes a woman? Revisiting a question that still matters
Being a woman is an innate sense of identity, not a biological checklist. Defining womanhood through anatomy excludes many cisgender women too: those born without a uterus, those w…
Coming out at university, far from the old name
Starting university far from home, they introduced themselves by their real name for the first time and discovered that who they were had been waiting all along.
Puberty blocker trial age set at 11: what Cass got wrong
Citizens condemn Erie councilman for misgendering trans colleague
Womanhood isn't a club, it's a lived experience
What is a woman anyway? It's the question everyone suddenly thinks they're philosophers about. So let's try it their way. Is it chromosomes, makeup, dresses? Here's a thought. A wo…
Share your trans joy this World Laughter Day
World Laughter Day. Share with me your stories about trans people, about trans healthcare, about trans beautiful lives, and how they made you laugh with joy. The in-jokes, the tend…
Tamzin Outhwaite pens heartfelt tribute to trans son Flo, 18: 'May adulthood bring you peace'
Idaho transgender bathroom law blocked by judge days before it goes into effect
Transitioning as a trans man after raising your family
Otto raised three children as their mother before coming out as a trans man in his sixties, and now his grown children are learning what it means to have a dad.
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