Mar 15Member-onlyMaybe we’re seeing a change?I’ve been feeling a lot better about things since publicly writing about a piece of research on trans youth by a woman who has openly written against conversion therapy bans and signed open letters against trans people, and people have finally just taken it and run with it. Loads of…Trans Safety2 min readTrans Safety2 min read
Feb 18Revolution runs inside outWhen I was 16 I knew of 6 other trans folks under the age of 20 in the whole of the UK, because they were other young trans people who had taken it upon themselves to set up safe spaces (literally an email list for trans youth, or band forums…Trans Liberation2 min readTrans Liberation2 min read
Feb 14What we’re up againstCisgender supremacists are telling us not to politicise the death of the trans girl who was killed over the weekend. Meanwhile people are still, tonight, continuing to send tweets like this to it. This, despite the fact that my Twitter account which I use for activist communications has been locked…Twitter2 min readTwitter2 min read
Feb 14On Twitter, criticising homophobic and transphobic abuse gets you bannedI’ve been locked out of my Twitter again, yet again under their “hateful conduct" rules, yet again because they have misinterpreted references I made to homophobic and transphobic harassment of a friend as me being homophobic. These tweets were responding to a Transphobic and Homophobic hate campaign being faced by…Twitter2 min readTwitter2 min read
Feb 6Bringing evidence back to trans inclusion in sportsPre-registered hypotheses about trans women in sport, common claims, and criteria for invalidating these through evidence. — Discussion There’s a huge amount of debate about trans women’s inclusion in women’s sports. While it’s common for trans women to be accused of being detached from material reality, the best of the opposition to trans women’s inclusion this is based on testable hypotheses. It doesn’t matter whether you hold our…Trans5 min readTrans5 min read
Jan 15Looking back at how far we’ve comeI just stumbled on an old thing I wrote down that I’d blanked out of my memory from when I was unemployed. My gender psychologist had written notes about me not dressing feminine enough and responded to me answering that I was currently unemployed at the time and a full…Personal3 min readPersonal3 min read
Dec 20, 2022A rough, and incomplete catalogue of Transgender conversion efforts in the Anglo American psychiatric complexThis piece is written in the main a short index to the history of trans medical conversion efforts in the 20th century English speaking world. Before getting into this, I have a couple of cautionary notes for readers that I think need to go first. One is about the racism…24 min read24 min read
Nov 10, 2022Thoughts on Mastodon and community owned social mediaedit: Since writing this I realised I didn’t go hard enough on the micronationalist bent on Mastodon. The thing is for large numbers of white people, being able to stake a claim on a space they own may mean safety for them as Trans, Queer, Furry, etc, but it also…3 min read3 min read
Nov 10, 2022Violence and Self DefenceThis post is adapted from a Twitter thread where I talk about an incident I experienced last year. CN: Strong transphobic threat (in the thread and this article) and discussion of serious and sexual violence throughout. Every time I discuss my experiences of frequently violent transphobic incidents, I receive a…Self Defence5 min readSelf Defence5 min read
Nov 5, 2022On Social ContagionProbably one of the most offensive and yet underrated Gender Critical narratives, one which isn’t treated as if it’s offensive or controversial by most cisgender commentators discussing us like they’re watching a cock fight, is the claim that the increase in out trans people is a form of "social contagion"…Trans2 min readTrans2 min read
