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.
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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.
Feature: How I Deradicalised My Terf Mum
by Rivkah Brown
As the nation prepares for the high holiday of arguments, Rivkah Brown speaks to two people who won over rightwing friends and family.
Report: Terfs Are Marginal in France. A New Media Platform Plans to Keep It That Way
by Olly Haynes
Camped out in an empty Parisian office block, XY Media is a new media frontier of trans liberation. Olly Haynes reports.
Analysis: Autistic People Are More Likely to Be Trans. So What?
by Ell Folan
JK Rowling is right: autistic people are far more likely to be transgender. That doesn’t make them any less deserving of gender-affirming care.
Live: Why the Tory’s Trans U-Turn Is Shameful
Boris Johnson's U-turn on trans conversion therapy has caused outrage among LGBT groups. We speak to Ugla Stefania about the government's current stance.
Ash Wednesday: Why Libertarians Agree With Putin | Ash Sarkar
There’s a clear split between rightwing commentators, and Putin’s war on Ukraine. But between pundits and Putin’s war on woke? Not so much!
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”.
Live: The Great British Gas Crisis
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Opinion: Judith Butler’s Censorship by the Guardian Shows Who’s Really Being Silenced in the Fight for Trans Rights
by Moya Lothian-McLean
Despite ‘gender critical’ feminists' cries that they are being censored, the Guardian cutting a sizeable chunk of its interview with gender theorist Judith Butler shows which side is really being subjected to the violence of silence in the battle for trans liberation.
Downstream: The Stories of Transgender Britain
Ash Sarkar speaks to Juliet Jacques about her new book 'Variations' - a collection of short stories inspired by real-life events that explore the history of transgender Britain.
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: I’m a Trans Woman Suing the Japanese Government. If I Win, I’ll Be in the Country’s First Same-Sex Marriage
by Elin McCready
A historic court case is seeking to force Japan to live up to the Olympic values it’s planning to cash in on this summer.
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: In Defence of Sex and Parties
by Sophie K Rosa
A journalist’s comments about missing parties and sex during lockdown have invited widespread scorn, including from those on the left. Which is weird, writes Sophie K Rosa, because parties are and always have been a site of political resistance.
Opinion: Trans People Aren’t ‘Chucking Bricks’, They’re Fighting to Survive
by Aimee Armstrong
Framing the 'trans debate' as a culture war obstructs discussions about the political changes we must make to actually improve the material conditions of trans people and cis women alike, writes Aimee Armstrong.
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.
Ash Wednesday: Speaking in the Language of YouTube | Ash Sarkar Meets ContraPoints
Natalie Wynn aka ContraPoints has spent several years crafting one of the smartest, most entertaining and beautiful channels YouTube has to offer. Her work is a political counterbalance to the forces of reaction so dominant online and a gasp of oxygen on a website awash with mediocrity. Ash caught up with Natalie over a humble […]