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This week’s poll
One question a week, answered by the people it is actually about.
Who do you turn to first when gender services let you down?
Thank you. I am keeping the answers to myself until Monday morning, so that nobody's vote nudges anybody else's. Come back then and I will show you the whole picture.
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Puberty blockers: approved for some, banned for others
Detransition, regret, and how the stories get weaponised
Detransition means returning to living in the gender assigned at birth, but the reasons are varied and often misrepresented. Some people detransition because of social pressure,…
HHS rule strips disability protection from gender dysphoria
Am I trans?
Three quiet questions to help you listen to yourself.
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Who are you?
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What testosterone does to your face, and what surgery can do
A testosterone puberty reshapes the face, growing the brow ridge, nose, jaw angles and chin, and forming an Adam's apple in the neck. Oestrogen softens skin and moves fat into the…
One loss, one trans athlete, one ballot initiative: let's be honest
US ballot measures that will reshape trans lives in real time
I always knew I was a boy. It took decades to live it.
He grew up in 1970s Britain reading C.S. Lewis by torchlight and longing to be one of the brothers, not the girl they all thought he was, and it would take four decades, two…
YouGov poll: voters trust Democrats on trans rights by 29 points
From up here, the borders don't show. 🌍
Being trans and disabled: navigating two systems
A young wheelchair user and their carer find that gender services and disability services each act as if the other does not exist, until one small act of recognition changes…
Transgender teenager sues Essentia Health after 5 years of care abruptly ends
Fighting the universe to make a surgery happen
Biological children and fertility for trans people
Trans people can and do have biological children, though the routes vary considerably depending on timing and what medical steps have been taken. Sperm can be stored before…
Do we need to protect women from trans women?
The claim that cis women need protection from trans women is not supported by evidence. Trans women and girls are statistically far more likely to be victims of violence, abuse,…
Minnesota trans athletes caught in a bylaw battle they didn't start
A Kansas pastor just said what most politicians are afraid to
What are my pronouns?
Try she, he and they on for size. Nothing fixed, no pressure.
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Darya's father said the wrong thing first, but chose his daughter over his certainty and became the man she needed him to be.
Gender-affirming healthcare remains out of reach for many South Africans
Keep growing, even when the sky feels very big and you feel very small. 🏳️⚧️
Why should society change for a small number of people?
Society makes room for small groups all the time, through step-free access, braille and sign language, because everybody matters whatever the numbers. Including trans people is…
Being trans and a person of colour
Chidi moved between two communities that did not quite hold him, until he stopped looking for a place to belong and started building one.
Erika Hilton: the Black trans politician reshaping Brazilian power
2 arrested in killing of transgender woman Jayla McGee
Living behind a thick skin: life as a trans woman over 6ft tall
The DCCC just ran its first anti-trans ad. Now what?
Genital exams for girls: what Washington's sports ban actually demands
What is it like to come out at work?
Maya spent the whole summer rehearsing a two-minute conversation with her headteacher, then burst out laughing halfway through because her hands would not stop shaking.
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