No one expected this part of parenting
There’s lot of stuff they do and don’t tell you about being a parent. My sister has two kids, and I’ve spent a lot of time with them over the…
To the person who doesn’t want queer neurodivergent kids:
I came across a post on reddit by a neurodivergent asexual person, titled “I don’t know if I want queer children.” It was a short post, about adopting in the…
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Giving Up
I very much feel like I gave up over the winter. I went into winter okay, without the dread, having come to terms (more or less) with my fibromyalgia diagnosis…
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Cartoon-Level Villainy
Making a transphobic "joke" in front of the mother of a murdered trans girl - whose killers were ruled to be motivated in part by transphobia - is some next-level…
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Of Welsh Nationalism and Queer Pride in 2024
Time to take a stand allies. Photo by Thiago Rocha on Unsplash It’s 2024 and more than ever we are both progressing and regressing as a society. We’re one Tory election away from…
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The Tories Don’t Care About Trans People One Way Or The Other
Photo by Oriel Frankie Ashcroft on Pexels.com The blatant transphobia at the Tory Party conference didn’t really surprise me. It was always coming, always going to be something the Tories…
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I Hate It When I’m Right
Three years ago I said the rights of cis LGB people were next - I was right. Three years ago I posted this on Instagram. “Dear Cis people, you’re probably…
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I Didn’t Change My Name Because I’m Trans
Two years ago I changed my name, and with my new passport in my new name, the process finally feels done. It was the last big thing that needed changing.…
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How To Change Your Name (In The UK)
Me with my name tag at an event recently. I recently renewed my passport. It was the last step in a two-year process of changing my name. The only reason…
I am terrified for the future of my trans child
I have always been somewhat fearful of the future for trans kids. Of the future of my trans kid. I try not to label her, both to allow her to…