The Truth About Gender Diversity
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IOC's 'heartbreaking' return to gene testing slammed by trans, intersex athletes
For every beautiful flower there is a beautiful butterfly waiting to spread their wings 🏳️⚧️
Am I trans?
Three quiet questions to help you listen to yourself.
Try the quiz →The real dangers women face
The real dangers women face are domestic abuse, sexual violence, street harassment, and coercive control, not trans people in bathrooms. Trans people make up roughly 0.5% of the UK…
When your partner comes out as trans, do you stay?
Carol grieved the husband she thought she had married, felt guilty for grieving at all, and spent a year working out whether she was still in love with Ruth.
Men Can Get Pregnant, Too: Providing Obstetric Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients
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…
Stop blaming trans people for crimes they haven't committed
Trans people are not responsible for the crimes of predatory men, and restricting gender-affirming care on that basis is scapegoating rather than safeguarding. Trans children have …
Judge keeps state hospital records of transgender minors away from Trump administration
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.
Transgender Arkansans weigh moving or staying as restrictions bite
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Doctor, mum, gender specialist: who is Helen Webberley?
I'm Dr Helen Webberley, a doctor, a mum, and a gender specialist. Over the last ten years I've learned everything I can about gender identity and what it means to be transgender. I…
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.
New Jersey moves to criminalise interference with trans healthcare
Hampstead Heath ponds vote to stay trans-inclusive
What are my pronouns?
Try she, he and they on for size. Nothing fixed, no pressure.
Try the quiz →The real harm of transphobia: mental health and suicide
The harm caused by transphobia is not abstract. It manifests in anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide attempts, disproportionately and consistently, among trans and LGBTQ+ pe…
Trans women are women. So what is a woman?
If you are looking for a neat biological checkbox, you have missed the point, and the century. The truth is simple: trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary identit…
Albania just made history for trans healthcare
When parents disagree about their trans child
Two parents who loved their child equally but not yet in the same direction: one ready, one frightened, and a marriage strained to its limit before they found their way to the same…
Qween Jean makes history as first openly transgender Tony winner
Off to recharge on a weekend road trip 👋👋
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…
Finding chosen family when your parents reject you
Yara was seventeen when her home went cold, and what followed was not a loss but a discovery: that family can be chosen, and sometimes the people who choose you love you better tha…
New York City launches 'Trans Rights are Human Rights' campaign
What Elliot Page, Zaya Wade and More Transgender Celebs Have Said About Their Transition Journeys
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