Here’s a little thing I adapted from the script of The Matrix. It was uncannily easy… MORPHEUS Do you believe in fate, Neo? NEO No. MORPHEUS Why not? NEO Because I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my life. MORPHEUS I know exactly what you mean. Again, that smile that could […]
I’ve been thinking a bit about people who regret transition recently. I’ve said before how I have great respect for those people who decide to revert to their birth-assigned gender. This is because it can be a difficult undertaking when so much has changed in their lives and the pressure from trans communities can be somewhat […]
I tweeted the following a short while ago: “Let’s be careful when arguing for the necessary care for trans kids that we don’t erroneously assume being a trans adult must be terrible.” and it had a number of retweets so I thought it might be useful for me to make my position clearer in something […]
It’s sometimes said that clinicians live in an ivory tower where we don’t engage with the ‘real world’ and certainly not with the Academy. Hopefully the diversity of clinicians now practicing, as well as strenuous efforts to engage more widely with communities are [slowly] putting paid to the first concern, but there are some real […]
People may have seen this in which transition is apparently being used an an attempted defence against murder and as a way of controlling violence. Transition doesn’t work that way. Transition is, of course, a radical shift in many trans people’s lives (although for some transition will be more gradual and others will not have made […]
Happy International Women’s day all. It saddens me that it was within my lifetime that rape within marriage was made illegal in the UK, but I am happy things have moved on a little. Now we just need to get equal pay, rights, power (not the soft proxy ‘influence’ until it is equally the case […]
There are many reasons why it is useful for the NHS to share patient information, it is research after all which provides the medicines and services which we rely on. However the NHS is changing the way your information must be obtained by researchers and for some groups of people, especially those in minority groups, […]
The Sexualization Report complied by Feona Attwood, Clare Bale and Meg Barker is being launched today. I was privileged to be asked to contribute on trans, and area which intersects all to often in the public imagination, if not the more prosaic realities of trans people’s lives. It’s much needed and a recommended read for […]
October 3rd saw the launch of Sexuality & Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide as well as a day with 60 or so colleagues reflecting on the British Psychological Society guidelines on working with sexual and gender minorities. There is a Storify of the live tweeting from the event here, including a summary of discussions and […]
