Don’t ask, don’t tell is not the same as stealth. Reacting to the UK’s EHRC Code of Practice and broader anti-trans legislation globally…

This week I have experienced misgendering in a lecture for the first time in nine years, not deliberate, but something I thought was a…

Navigating social expectation of gender while also exploring the texture of what it means to affirm yourself has always been a fraught…

There comes a point when you realise that things are about to change, that you are on the cusp of something new and exciting, that what was…

This is an extract from a longer paper I am writing on how we ought to treat AI platforms and their user generated hate content as a…

It has been over a year since I completed my doctorate, and to this day I still get a smile every time I use my full title. It means…

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I write about sex frequently because I both enjoy exploring what sex represents and the societal framing of sex. Some articles, such as my…

Spend any length of time in any trans related space and the sexualisation of trans women’s bodies leaks out. Be it the demonisation of…

My doctoral thesis examined the notion that rights are a negotiated concept which require a narrative of hospitality to ensure that no…

It is a common observation that overnight sensations take ten years of practice and training to make it big. The same happens for…

When you transition you enter into a parallel world where you are judged simply because of what you are and not who you are. I remember…

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As someone who has written about trans issues for six years and now produces a podcast which in part touches on them one of the key issues…

It is an error to assume that science is pure, that all research is conducted in a social vacuum, and that “political” means party…

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I see you standing on the doorstep on December 31st 1999, seeing the fireworks over the Medway, reds and smoke filling the air as the…

Today I have published a briefing covering the Bill currently going through the UK Parliament which seeks to change the way asylum and…

As a writer I engage with a broad range of social issues, including gender, sexuality, immigration, and the impact of technology on…

Writing about the death of a complicated person balances out the needs for reflection, honesty, and potential moral lessons from that…

Every time I engage with any trans related conversation it inevitably boils down to questions of biology, especially the notion that a…

Being told to stay in my lane felt like a slap in the face, especially when the person saying it was a woman. It was tot for the first time…

When I was younger I would always bristle at being call duck or hen, stating I was not a piece of poultry, yet the northern forms of…

Rights are a narrative process. They are not needed on an island of one because we do not seek to oppress ourselves. Rather, rights become…

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As an ex-Christian my head is full of biblical allegories which I draw on for every day referencing, it is simply part of my cultural…

I reject reductive conceptions of morality as they are always rooted in the positionality of whichever person or society conceived them…

One of the key issues facing trans people is the policing of their physical bodies which sits in contrast to their desire to manifest their…

I am an avowed AI sceptic, someone who wrote their Masters thesis in 2020 on the dangers of an AI panopticon to rights and our conception…

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Building a movement with many intersectional moving parts requires compromise, framing, and understanding that you will lose people along…

Free speech, a quintessential issue of our times, a right so nebulous that those in favour of free speech absolutism are prepared to sell…

5th August 2026 will be a day that lives in infamy for the trans community in the UK. It was the day that the revised EHRC Guidance came…

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How a society treats its marginalised groups is often held to be a sign of how civilised it appears. Most societies seek to appear…

I preface this by stating that under UK law holding gender critical philosophical beliefs has protection under the Equality Act 2010…

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To be clear this is me working through a serious issue I am facing on social media, one which the platforms are not prepared to deal with…

Over the last decade plenty of books have been published documenting trans history, autobiographies, biographies, and academic textbooks…

Being trans in the world has always been about conquering fears. No trans narrative has ever been free from the fear for putting on the…

It’s a strange quirk of living your entire adult as a woman when the history you experienced first hand becomes a contest space which…

When science is used to cause intrinsic harm to persons or groups is ought to be called out at every step. When politics, faith, and…

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In August 2026 the UK is set to introduce a set of punitive sex segregation polices in the revised EHRC Guidance which means that any trans…

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In July 2026 Amnesty International published a report, since retracted, which outlined that a series of organisations in the UK were…

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As we are coming up to the season for Trans Pride marches and events, I have put together a list of trans books from my personal collection…

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