28 results for "gender diversity"
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…
I'm Dr Helen Webberley. I'm a doctor, a mum, and a gender specialist, and for the last decade and more I've spent most of my waking hours learning everything I…
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?…
Misgendering means using the wrong pronouns or gender for someone, and deadnaming means using the name they were given at birth after they have asked you to…
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,…
Legally transitioning means changing your legal documents so they reflect who you are, and the most significant of those is your birth certificate. In the UK,…
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…
When workplace materials use dehumanising language about trans people, the right move is to act now rather than wait. Document the specific language, raise it…
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…
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,…
Trans patients in NHS hospitals are protected under the Equality Act 2010 through the characteristic of gender reassignment, and that includes the right to…
Rejection hurts everyone, but when a family holds a grief ritual for your pre-transition self, or a partner shuts you out of their transition, the pain has a…
The EHRC's draft code of practice, published after the Supreme Court's ruling in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers, is built on the premise that…
The government's own Equality Impact Assessment warns that directing trans women away from women's services creates a disproportionate risk of violence and…
Angela Y Davis argues that refusing to acknowledge the full diversity of gender, cisgender, transgender, gender fluid, and gender non-conforming, disarms…
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…
The real dangers women face are domestic abuse, sexual violence, street harassment, and coercive control, not trans people in bathrooms. Trans people make up…
It's time to really understand the beauty of diversity, the meaning of equality, and how to include everyone so that we all have a place in this world.…
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.
She hadn't slept the night before, convinced that walking into a restaurant would give her away. Then the waitress asked what she could get the ladies, and a…
Dani stood at her front door for eleven minutes before she finally stepped outside as herself, and what she found on the other side was sunshine, a dog…
Layla was told she had to choose between her faith and being herself, until she found a corner of her religion spacious enough for both.
"Transgender For Everybody" is a framing that places trans lives at the centre of ordinary human experience rather than at the edge of a political debate. It…
A detailed examination of Hillbrook School's approach to supporting trans and gender diverse students, written specifically for parents.
A new video series explores gender diversity and the real human experiences behind trans identities.
Media criticism of trans inclusion in schools misses the point; these efforts should be recognised as good practice in supporting all young people.
Dr Helen Webberley launches a new Substack to share honest, evidence-based perspectives on gender diversity and clinical practice.