30 results for "trans rights"
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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,…
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…
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,…
Paul Mescal publicly declared his support for the trans community ahead of London Trans+ Pride this July, stating: "I'm incredibly proud to stand in support of…
Angela Y Davis argues that refusing to acknowledge the full diversity of gender, cisgender, transgender, gender fluid, and gender non-conforming, disarms…
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.…
Trans people have always existed, across cultures and throughout recorded history. The only question each generation faces is how they are treated. The…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani launched the 'Trans Rights Are Human Rights' campaign at the start of Pride Month, in partnership with the NYC Commission on…
More than a hundred trans rights supporters marched through Oxford on 30 March, organised by Oxford 4 Trans Rights in response to the EHRC's draft code of…
Trans rights and women's rights are not competing interests; they are being dismantled by the same political forces using the same logic. The same…
Tom Steyer, running for California governor, made an unequivocal case for trans student-athletes being allowed to play on teams matching their gender identity,…
Oxford 4 Trans Rights is holding a protest in Bonn Square, Oxford, on Saturday at 3pm, in response to updated draft guidance from the Equality and Human Rights…
"Not in Our Name" is a new women's group formed in solidarity with the trans community, pushing back against the claim that opposition to trans rights…
Barney Frank has urged Democrats to take a quieter approach to trans rights for electoral reasons. Trans rights are not a political miscalculation to be…
US students at McGill University in Montreal are reportedly being denied gender-affirming care at a campus clinic, with Trump's executive orders cited as the…
Trans Pride Falmouth held its second annual march on 23rd May 2026, days after a Cornwall Council member declared that "trans women are women" is a…
One year after the UK Supreme Court's ruling on the Equality Act, trans rights supporters gathered in York to call for clearer national protections and an end…
A council vote overwhelmingly supporting trans rights offers practical guidance and clear reasoning for other decision-makers.
Joe Ball's Higginbotham Lecture contextualises the fight for trans rights within a longer history of social justice movements, challenging the notion that…