I call it a quest because it truly feels like a long, arduous search I had to go on to find people like me who shared a significant understanding of what it was like to be LGBTQ+
Tag: transition
Guilt is something which has always followed me, as a parent, as a partner, as a trans person. I feel torn in more directions that I can ever take.
The announcement of an NHS review into healthcare for trans adults causes us great concern. We have seen how the Cass Review has been misrepresented and misused to severely restrict […]
TransActual are looking to publish a book in 2024 that will help the public to reconnect with actual trans people.
Perhaps this feeling is a consequence, at least to some extent, of the near-ubiquitous before-and-after pictures of hormonal transition. These photos omit the difficult middle, offering instead an arbitrarily selected “after”.
Dutch trans activists took to the streets on the 26th of June, marching past the Amsterdam University Medical Centres, home to the Centre for Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, the gender identity clinic (GIC) where around 80% of Dutch trans people are assessed. “This was definitely symbolic, as participants screamed Fuck het VU! Trans zorg nu! — Fuck the GIC! Trans healthcare now,” writes vreer verkerke, a Dutch trans healthcare activist. The 500-strong protest, organised by the group Trans Zorg Nu, inaugurated the start of their campaign ‘Summer of Trans Rage.’