Trans – why the blowback?
Haters gonna hate. They want to wipe trans people out. No attempts at rational discussion will change them. Mercifully, they are very few, though very noisy. We’ll have to tolerate them, though free speech...
Welcome! This is a website for those in the UK who want to change sex or who have changed, and friends. This site’s primary purpose is to help. We all know there are extreme views for and against trans people and the wider world of gender non-conforming. Our intention here is to be as balanced as we can in understanding all perspectives, but with the underlying conviction that there are real, honest people out there who want to change, and they need support. Practical, straightforward help.
Our Purpose
This site’s primary purpose is to help. We all know there are extreme views for and against trans people and the wider world of gender non-conforming. Our intention here is to be as balanced...
Sacked for the wrong pronouns
Deliberately misgendering someone is an obvious form of harassment. The key point in the workplace is that we are all there to do a job and should be free from that sort of thing...
Transition at work
Transition at work gives great opportunities for learning. Both the worker and the employer are handling an important and fundamental change, and doing it together. Yes, there are challenges, but those have the potential...
Culture wars
At the philosophers’ conference…. Hi, my name is They Progressively-Woke. I’m professor of sociology at Sustranssex University Hello. I am Simone Stuck, Dean of Exclusionary Morality at the University of Alnwick They: Simone, you’ve...
Your new name
Here’s an example of an ‘unenrolled deed poll’. The wording is taken from the Home Office website and is good for the whole of the UK. You will need two respectable friends or neighbours...
Get a Passport
You’ll want to get a passport in your new name if you intend to travel outside the UK. The Home Office website gives you guidance on how to do this (https://www.gov.uk/changing-passport-information/gender). I found it...
Who do you tell?
Obviously, you try to tell everyone who needs to know, but my experience is that you’ll forget someone, usually an organisation. So this is a list organised by categories so you can try to...
How we got here – a brief history of trans law (Europe and the UK)
The 1990s were a tipping point. Caroline Cossey, model, ‘Bond Girl’ and transwoman, was told in 1990 by the European Court of Human Rights that she couldn’t change her legal identity in order to...