41 results for "trans women"
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Trans people in prison have legal rights to dignity, safety, and protection from discrimination. The Equality Act 2010 protects them through the characteristic…
The government's draft guidance on single-sex spaces contains a direct contradiction: it states that members of the public do not have the right to challenge…
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…
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…
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 and her partner map a route to parenthood through frozen sperm, clinic appointments, and paperwork, learning that trans families are made with as…
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…
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.
Anaya spent her thirties explaining away a feeling she could never quite name, until a colleague's transition gave it one.
Camila swallowed her first HRT tablet expecting transformation and felt nothing, then weeks later cried at a television advert and understood that the real…
Marco had avoided swimming for a decade until top surgery gave him back something he hadn't dared name as lost.
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.
Mei spent months relearning her voice in secret, until one Tuesday phone call made her realise the smallest reclamations land the hardest.
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…
Hampstead Heath's bathing ponds will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation backed the existing policy. The City of London Corporation confirmed…
The EHRC's updated draft code of practice restricts trans women's access to single-sex services including refuges, rape crisis centres, and healthcare…
The full Federal Court of Australia has ruled unanimously that transgender woman Roxanne Tickle was directly discriminated against when she was removed from a…
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…
"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…
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…
The US Department of Education has opened a Title IX investigation into Smith College for admitting trans women. Students are frightened. The framing being…
The IOC's new SRY gene testing policy affects far more women than the headlines suggest, with implications that extend well beyond elite sport.
New research on athletic performance in trans women provides an opportunity to clarify what puberty blockers actually do and reinforce the evidence on their…
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…
The evidence on trans women's athletic performance is more nuanced than the debate often suggests.
A recent employment tribunal decision upholds the right of trans women to use facilities consistent with their gender identity in the workplace.
The conversation around trans women's participation in women's sports needs nuance, evidence and compassion rather than ideological entrenchment.
The same logic that excluded Black women from 'true womanhood' is being used against trans women today. This is not new. It is the same old violence.
The government's own Equality Impact Assessment warns of disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault against trans women if they are forced into men's…
There's no complex dosing with progesterone, no blood test to chase. You just take it and that's it, job done. And lots of trans women find it very helpful for…
If you're looking for a neat biological checkbox, you've missed the point entirely. Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary identities are…