The Truth About Gender Diversity
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The Giggle v Tickle ruling is a win for all women
Believing your child means the absolute world
You're doing a fantastic job. Just believing and supporting your child means the absolute world to them. Parental acceptance is one of the most powerful protective factors for tran…
NHS gender clinic waiting times: years of harm hiding in plain sight
Am I trans?
Three quiet questions to help you listen to yourself.
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Disability Rights UK stands with trans people against EHRC guidance
Going private for trans care when the wait is too long
A person waits years on a public list before the kitchen-table sums finally tip: they go private, and arrive at relief and anger at exactly the same moment.
Bristol takes to the streets to resist the EHRC
Angela Davis: gender diversity is everyone's fight
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…
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…
The Supreme Court is about to rule on trans athletes. Here is what is really at stake.
Can a trans man get pregnant? Theo carried his son
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.
Ariana Grande launches foundation for LGBTQ+ rights and mental health
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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…
When a stranger gets your gender right
A trans person orders a coffee, hears one word from a stranger, and finds the world has quietly rearranged itself around who they really are.
Northern Ireland commissions Cass to assess its gender identity services
NYC opens a gender-affirming care clinic as federal pressure bites
What are my pronouns?
Try she, he and they on for size. Nothing fixed, no pressure.
Try the quiz →What will they put on my death certificate?
Without a Gender Recognition Certificate, a death certificate in England and Wales will generally record the gender on the birth certificate rather than a person's lived gender. A …
Trans, black, tall, short - they are just adjectives to the word 'Woman'
Trans women are women, and the refusal to recognise them as such follows a well-documented historical pattern. Angela Y Davis has shown how Black women were once excluded from "rea…
The BMA on the EHRC code: what it means for trans patients and doctors
Should I transition?
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.
IOC's 'heartbreaking' return to gene testing slammed by trans, intersex athletes
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Red blood cells and testosterone: what changes and why
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…
Explaining being non-binary to parents who don't get it
Jay came home from university to tell their parents they were non-binary, sat through the most awkward dinner of their life, and waited six months for a birthday card.
Men Can Get Pregnant, Too: Providing Obstetric Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients
Gender-affirming care protected in New Mexico, but not always easy to access
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