50 results for "gender identity"
Transitioning at 62 is absolutely possible, and people do it successfully all the time. I've been told about someone transitioning in Australia in under four…
Even without hormones, the steps you can take right now, your clothes, your hair, your name, your pronouns, and the way you present yourself to the world, can…
The long-term effects of testosterone are well understood. It drops your voice, grows facial and body hair, develops and broadens your muscles and skeleton,…
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…
Non-binary people are entitled to the same quality of gender-affirming healthcare as anyone else, and international guidelines including the WPATH Standards of…
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?…
World Laughter Day. Share with me your stories about trans people, about trans healthcare, about trans beautiful lives, and how they made you laugh with joy.…
The best way to find the right surgeon for gender-affirming surgery is to ask people who have already had the procedure. Peer networks, online communities, and…
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,…
Trans rights are the defining civil rights struggle of our generation, as race equality was in the 1960s and gay rights were in the decades that followed. I…
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…
The biggest message I'd give anyone navigating transition or any kind of identity work is this: plan carefully, hold the plan lightly, and don't be hard on…
Counselling is genuinely helpful for trans people and for people who support them, but only when it is affirmative and supportive. Good counselling helps you…
Without a Gender Recognition Certificate, a death certificate in England and Wales will generally record the gender on the birth certificate rather than a…
Listen to yourself. Listen to how you feel, what lands right when someone uses a particular name or pronoun, what feels good in the mirror, what clothes feel…
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…
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,…
Puberty blockers are banned on private prescription for trans young people in the UK, and NHS access has become effectively impossible. Many families I hear…
Trans people in prison have legal rights to dignity, safety, and protection from discrimination. The Equality Act 2010 protects them through the characteristic…
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…
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.…
Trans people have always existed, across cultures and throughout recorded history. The only question each generation faces is how they are treated. The…
A trans woman learns to navigate the daily calculation of which door to push open, and discovers that the law and lived reality rarely feel the same.
A trans woman travels alone for the first time on a new passport and discovers that the planning was the point all along.
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…
Darya's father said the wrong thing first, but chose his daughter over his certainty and became the man she needed him to be.
Farah, recently separated, sat her two young children down to say she was their mum now, and discovered that her six-year-old cared most about the bedtime…
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…
A person who paused a medical step and spent months certain they were a fraud finds, slowly, that the pause was part of the path.
Sora's grandmother never learned the vocabulary, but she knew her grandchild completely, and on a quiet December morning she relabelled the Christmas stocking…
Sam's parents let him play with whatever caught his eye, then feared that openness had made him trans. It had only made him safe enough to be known.
Ro had spent years quietly performing a gender that never quite fit, until a Thursday afternoon conversation in a bookshop handed something back to them they…
A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled that the Trump administration's Pentagon policy illegally banned transgender troops…
Northern Ireland's Health Minister has published an assessment of its Gender Identity Services, written by Dr Hilary Cass and measuring local provision against…
Tom Steyer, running for California governor, made an unequivocal case for trans student-athletes being allowed to play on teams matching their gender identity,…
Maine's Secretary of State has released the final wording of a proposed referendum that would ban trans children from using school facilities and competing in…
Northern Ireland has long been among the worst-served parts of the UK for gender-affirming healthcare, with no commissioned adult gender identity service. The…
Drawing on world-leading medical guidelines, Dr Webberley answers the most important questions about recognising a transgender identity in yourself, your…
Two identical twins raised with complete freedom show us why gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality are distinct aspects of who we are.
When someone shares their gender identity with you, they're showing tremendous trust—here's how to be the ally they need.
Helen Webberley offers reassurance and practical guidance to parents supporting children questioning their gender identity at school.
A landmark ban on conversion practices is welcome, but we need to recognise the hidden forms of therapy that still attempt to change people's gender identity…
A recent employment tribunal decision upholds the right of trans women to use facilities consistent with their gender identity in the workplace.
Dr Michelle Forcier, a leading gender specialist, discusses the developmental stages at which children understand and express their gender identity.
Dr Webberley reflects on a recent filmed interview with Dr Hilary Jones, featuring lived experience from a trans woman.
We look at a baby and assign a sex at birth. That can be completely and utterly wrong when their gender identity starts coming out.
We're wasting good counsellors on validating someone's gender identity. They already know themselves. Use that expertise to help people navigate transition,…
Counselling is great for trans people and the people who love them. Just make sure it's supportive, not trying to find a reason for your gender identity or…
I've spent 10 years learning everything about gender identity. Now I'm inviting you to join me, so we all end up on the right side of history.
I'm a doctor, a mum, and a gender specialist. I've spent the last 10 years learning everything I can about gender identity, and I'm here to help.