Feature: For Trans and Non-Binary People, the Choice Is Between Private Healthcare or Years of Waiting
by Vic Parsons
All trans people who medically transition now have to pay for it - whether that’s in time or money. Vic Parsons reports.
Tag: TERFs
Analysis: Welcome to Terf Island: How Anti-Trans Hate Skyrocketed 156% in Four Years
by Ell Folan
The media has turned against trans people - and Britain has gone with it. Ell Folan shows how soaring hate crime tracks with transphobic churnalism.
Downstream: Were Trans People “Born This Way”?
In debates around the rights of transgender people, a charge often levelled at those fighting for trans inclusion is that their arguments rest on a denial of biological facts. Michael Walker speaks to biologist Julia Serano about what so-called ‘gender critical’ thinkers get wrong about sex and gender, and whether trans activists should embrace the argument that they were “born this way”.
Long Read: How the Anti-Trans Movement is Weaponising Gay Liberation
by James Greig
'Gender critical' feminists like to portray queer history as toothless and exclusionary - conveniently forgetting that gay lib has always been a movement that embraces all marginalised groups.
Opinion: Changing Your Mind is Good, Actually
by Rachel Connolly
There’s something liberating about seeing your views as changeable rather than as an extension of yourself, writes Rachel Connolly.
Opinion: Don’t Believe the Bigots – Trans Rights Aren’t a Threat to Women
by Ash Sarkar
The overrepresentation of trans-hostile voices in the media means we’re denied a realistic view of the issues facing trans and non-binary people, writes Ash Sarkar.
Analysis: TERFs Don’t Speak for Women – But Don’t Take It From Me, Look at the Polls
by Ell Folan
Britain’s reputation as TERF Island isn’t wholly unfounded, writes Stats for Lefties founder Ell Folan. The good news, though, is that transphobes are firmly in the minority.
Opinion: Filth: Trans Bathroom Panics May Be New, but Public Toilets Have Always Been a Political Battleground
by Eleanor Penny
Trans bathroom panics may seem trivial - a bad-faith media circus, a creepy fixation on where total strangers empty their body’s waste products - but public toilets have long been a key political battleground in an ongoing fight over whose bodies are worthy of dignity, writes Eleanor Penny, in the first of a new series on 'filth'.
The World Transformed Showed How Much the Labour Party Has to Learn About Feminism
by Sophie K Rosa
Political festival The World Transformed put feminism front and centre, showing how it is essential to a meaningful left politics. But the Labour Party failed to listen to activists by not showing solidarity with trans people or sex workers.
We Asked People at London’s First Trans Pride Why the Event Needed to Happen
by Patrycja Borecka
Around 1,500 people gathered in central London on Saturday for the city's first Trans Pride. We talked to attendees about why trans rights need to be centre stage.
Why Labour Should Be Bolder on Trans Rights
by Luke Dukinfield
In light of the moral panic around new reforms to the Gender Recognition Act, the Labour party must take a bolder stance and demand trans liberation, argues Luke Dukinfield.
The Lockdown: The Lockdown: Containing Gender
The Lockdown hosts interview Chryssy Hunter, an activist with Bent Bars and researcher currently completing her PhD on neoliberal legislation and the lives of trans and gender non-conforming people.