I have very nearly reached my goal of 100k in May, raising £250 for the MS Society. Today I pushed 5k in the Rocinante, my trusty manual wheelchair, and tomorrow I push my final 5k to reach 100k, on t...

I went swimming for the first time in a long time today. I haven’t been swimming since my diagnosis with multiple sclerosis seven years ago, and I haven’t been to a public swimming pool in the UK sinc...

I was talking with a fellow MS-er today about the lifestyle changes we have had to make to manage the disease. We both feel an instinct to rebel against the rules imposed upon us by this disease, espe...

Before I began mounting the monster truck of transition and wheely-ing through the ring of fire of my life like it was Thunder Thursday, I listened to the podcast ‘Transponder’ with Mila and Jayna. Th...

This week I went to Exeter to give a keynote presentation at the Mentally Healthy Schools Conference. This was an outstanding event, exceptionally well organised, and I met so many wondeful people tha...

I have had a busy week. I love busy weeks. When the MS was at its worst I could not permit myself the luxury. I’d feel good, plan too many meetings, too many social activities, and at some point my en...

Baroness Hilary Cass gave an interview to Laura Kuenssberg in which she made a number of bold claims about gender diverse children and young people. Were any of them supported by the evidence? One was...

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I saw a post from a Redditor whom we'll call StillAir describing the fear of optic neuritis. They describe how they've been blind in one eye since childhood and ask about how people manage the fear of...

I was wheeling on my usual 6k route, rolling on a track that runs alongside a river. It’s rather beautiful. In front of me, rapidly approaching, I see at the last second a dog poop steaming directly i...

I’m browsing the MS subreddit today when I come across a poster, whom we’ll call ‘The Rookie’ (intended with affection), talking about the totally valid concerns about relationships, with a sentence t...

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It might have been the impact, or the adrenaline spiking my body temperature, but my effort to even sit upright falters. I resignedly lie back in the middle of the road and look up at the sky. Nearby,...

Today I’m wheeling on my regular Saturday 10k route. It’s hard, I’m not going to pretend it isn’t. Four kissing gates, rolling through tunnels of trees offroad, gravel and stones, inquisitive cows, ar...

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Our friends kindly gave us a voucher for a v-e-r-y swanky restaurant in London, so we made a day of it. We went to the aquarium, went to the Moulin Rouge musical, we laughed and rolled our way around ...

Many symptoms of MS are annoying. Numbness in the fingers, spasticity in the legs, the occasional bladder spasm that threatens to cause a small localised flood. Such symptoms are challenging to manage...

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My journey with mobility challenges began 2 ½ years ago, when my last relapse changed my ‘couch to 5k’ into ‘mostly couch’ and the only ‘5 k' I was gaining tended to settle around my midriff. I used ...

'Unequivocally... those who underwent surgeries faced higher risks.' This week Cora goes toe-to-toe with an influencer to understand how a handful of studies show surprising outcomes from transition r...

I arrived home from court today for the last time. Jury service has concluded. As I walked in the front door the emotion of what had happened hit me. Inside I felt an unexpected sense of loss, a sudde...

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I’m terrible at knowing when I need help. Before I had my current wheelchair, The Rocinante, even before my first wheelchair, Firefly, I still regularly refused help I sorely needed. I once took a tra...

'It's a fetish, Janet!' What are gender critical beliefs and how have they become so mainstream? We take a look at how framing trans exclusion as the protection of women influences public opinion. And...

The UK has released new schools guidance around keeping children safe and relationships and sex education and Cora reviews them both. They're an example of trans erasure, but don't worry, Cora totally...

'The transgender movement is the most violent domestic terror threat in the world' Cora takes on Donald Trump Jr . and we take a look at the largest survey ever conducted, released just this week, abo...

For trans folk being legible in the world can sometimes involve a change to their voice. Cora has been working on her voice and we take a look at before... and after... Can trans voices change with tr...

We’ve been on a journey to this point. When my first neurologist sat me down I’d been experiencing nerve pain for around a year, my eyes pulled off their target with every pulse of pain.  An MRI...

'...children experienced gender dysphoria after binge watching trans content on social media' Trans folk use social media like everyone else, but the effects are not quite the same. What happens when ...

I drove a couple of hours to try a new gym this morning. My phone pinged this as the location of a hand-cycling taster session I wanted to attend. I thought it would be a routine day. I’d get some goo...

This week Cora takes on the EHRC, the Government, and the Supreme Court. What is 'passing' and why shouldn't passing be the benchmark for entry to appropriate spaces it is fast becoming? Bring your ho...

My heart was in my throat as I sat with my best friend. He meant and still means a lot to me. We learned kung fu together. We drove every week to our classes together. He was my best man at my wedding...

Classroom Psychology · Episode

Classroom Psychology · Episode

I was in my wheelchair on my usual 5k route. I pushed up hills, down hills… around hills. I was near a college very early in my workout when I saw that I was about to pass a woman on my right. This la...