The racist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant riots taking place across England are a disgrace. Our Black, brown, Muslim and migrant siblings within the trans community are once again being placed in […]
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Many of you will be aware of the horrendous pile-on over the last few days, directed towards Olympic boxer Imane Khelif. Racist, transphobic and misogynist. For a fuller account of […]
Released today (29th September 2021), one of the largest direct surveys of trans experience in the UK in 2021 makes exposes the shocking reality of the daily discrimination faced by […]
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What is Pride?
I sit here with so much more knowledge about my culture and my religion. Hinduism has a wide and varied history and mythology full of queer figures. This is a religion of genderflipping deities and queer heroes. It is a religion which recognises that people aren’t always male or female; there is a ‘tritiya prakriti’, a third nature. Which then begs the question, where did all that pressure to conform to normative society come from? What caused my self-hatred and denial and hurt for all those years? Why did I have this idea that I couldn’t be Hindu and queer?
I don’t want to become another statistic because someone thinks that they have the right to treat me however they see fit – whether that’s because I’m transgender or because I’m a woman.