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Insight Transitioning at 62: it is absolutely time to go for it

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…

Insight Womanhood isn't a club, it's a lived experience

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?…

Insight 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,…

Insight Trans rights are the defining battle of our time

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…

Insight Just listen to yourself

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…

Insight Dehumanising language about trans people at work

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…

Insight The only trans debate worth having

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…

Insight Anti-trans hostility harms cis people too

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,…

Insight 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…

Insight So can we ask or not??!!

The government's draft guidance on single-sex spaces contains a direct contradiction: it states that members of the public do not have the right to challenge…

Insight The EHRC's draft code fails trans people and all women

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…

Insight The government's own data warns of trans safety risk

The government's own Equality Impact Assessment warns that directing trans women away from women's services creates a disproportionate risk of violence and…

Insight 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…

Insight 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…

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Real Lives Using public toilets as a trans person

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.

Real Lives Trans woman and partner trying for a baby

A trans woman and her partner map a route to parenthood through frozen sperm, clinic appointments, and paperwork, learning that trans families are made with as…

Real Lives Passing as your real gender

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…

Real Lives 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.

Real Lives Realising you are trans in your thirties

Anaya spent her thirties explaining away a feeling she could never quite name, until a colleague's transition gave it one.

Real Lives What the first day on HRT actually feels like

Camila swallowed her first HRT tablet expecting transformation and felt nothing, then weeks later cried at a television advert and understood that the real…

Real Lives What it feels like to be free of unwanted body bits!

Marco had avoided swimming for a decade until top surgery gave him back something he hadn't dared name as lost.

Real Lives No surgery needed: being trans on your own terms

A trans man who loves his life but is exhausted by the assumption that surgery is the final proof of who he is finds a quieter, firmer sense of himself.

Real Lives Learning to love your voice in transition

Mei spent months relearning her voice in secret, until one Tuesday phone call made her realise the smallest reclamations land the hardest.

Real Lives Freezing sperm before transition: Niko's choice

Niko sat in a fertility clinic waiting room full of hopeful couples, quietly doing something that most of them would never need to think about: deciding to…

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News Hampstead Heath ponds stay trans-inclusive after public backs existing rules

Hampstead Heath's bathing ponds will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation backed the existing policy. The City of London Corporation confirmed…

News The EHRC code and the question of whose safety we are really protecting

The EHRC's updated draft code of practice restricts trans women's access to single-sex services including refuges, rape crisis centres, and healthcare…

News Australian court rules for trans woman Roxanne Tickle in landmark discrimination case

The full Federal Court of Australia has ruled unanimously that transgender woman Roxanne Tickle was directly discriminated against when she was removed from a…

News Trans women are women. Denying their rights denies women's rights.

Trans women are a subset of women, not a separate or competing category. When you deny trans women their rights, you are denying women their rights, because…

News Not in our Name: New women's group voices solidarity with trans community

"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…

News Trans Pride Falmouth: we are not a threat, we just want to live

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…

News Smith College students speak out as federal government targets trans admissions

The US Department of Education has opened a Title IX investigation into Smith College for admitting trans women. Students are frightened. The framing being…

News IOC trans women ban: what the policy really means

The IOC's new SRY gene testing policy affects far more women than the headlines suggest, with implications that extend well beyond elite sport.

News Puberty blockers are reversible, science confirms

New research on athletic performance in trans women provides an opportunity to clarify what puberty blockers actually do and reinforce the evidence on their…

News Bowls England's trans inclusion policy reveals legal contradiction

Bowls England's rules allow trans men to compete in men's competitions but exclude trans women from women's, a position that lacks legal foundation and creates…

News Trans women in sport: what the science shows

The evidence on trans women's athletic performance is more nuanced than the debate often suggests.

News Employment tribunal rules on trans women and workplace facilities

A recent employment tribunal decision upholds the right of trans women to use facilities consistent with their gender identity in the workplace.

News Trans women in sports: moving beyond polarised debate

The conversation around trans women's participation in women's sports needs nuance, evidence and compassion rather than ideological entrenchment.

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