Guardian Article

02Nov09

During the vigil on Friday night, I was interviewed for the Guardian newspaper (I am the ‘young transsexual woman to my right’). Today Patrick Strudwick published the article ‘Standing strong against hate‘ on guardian.co.uk. I ask a young transsexual woman to my right why she’s here. “I get abuse every single day,” she says. “From […]

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Tags: article, guardian, hate-crimes, homophobia, newspaper, Trafalgar Square, transphobia, vigil

Transphobia masquerading as politeness

06Apr09

I wanted this blog to be positive….full of stories of hope and dreams coming true, which of course they are, but there are so many things that happen that I feel I want to blog about that aren’t too positive. I hope you realise that the reason they are here is that I’m using this […]

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Tags: names, pronouns, thought leakage, titles, transphobia