





Three quiet questions to help you listen to yourself.
Try the quiz →Testosterone causes red blood cells to become larger, denser, and more numerous, which is exactly what happens in any body running on testosterone. For trans men and transmasculine…
Darya's father said the wrong thing first, but chose his daughter over his certainty and became the man she needed him to be.

The Equality Act 2010 created two separate protected characteristics: sex and gender reassignment. I think that was a mistake, or at least an incomplete solution. The Gender Recogn…
When people claim to be standing up for women by opposing trans rights, they are not being honest. The parameters of who counts as a real woman keep narrowing, and the harm reaches…
Kabir braced for rejection when he came out as a trans man to his watch, and found instead that the men he worked with simply got on with it.

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…
Theo paused his testosterone, carried his son through nine months of forms that kept calling him mother, and held the baby who would only ever know him as Dad.
Try she, he and they on for size. Nothing fixed, no pressure.
Try the quiz →Angela Y Davis argues that refusing to acknowledge the full diversity of gender, cisgender, transgender, gender fluid, and gender non-conforming, disarms everyone. The rigid binary…
The government's own Equality Impact Assessment warns that directing trans women away from women's services creates a disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault, and incr…

Diane had known since the eighties, buried it through addiction and a rebuilt life, and then told her wife the truth over dinner on a Tuesday, and everything shifted.

The only debate worth having about trans people is how to help them live their lives more easily. Every other framing, whether trans people exist, whether they deserve rights, whet…
A trans man who loves his life but is exhausted by the assumption that surgery is the final proof of who he is finds a quieter, firmer sense of himself.
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