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Trans kids under 10: The NHS Project R22

Following a Cass Review recommendation, the NHS has commissioned a pilot (the R22 Project) for trans kids under 10. Very little information is publicly available on this pilot, with its existence first mentioned here, including an embedded link to the R22 referral form (discussed below). A project proposal for R22 has now been emailed (not … …
Topic: Health Care Category: Health Care Keywords: Health Care, Uncategorized, Gender, lgbtq, politics, trans, transgender Type: article Trust: unrated

The First Anti-Crossdressing Laws

Is There a History of Anti-Transgender Discrimination? (Part III)
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On Banning Conversion Practices

In January the Council of Europe voted through a ban on Conversion Practices Anti-trans groups love Conversion practices. They have heavily lobbied against bans that cover trans people. They have tried to claim that trans support or affirmative medical care is a conversive practice. They have tried to water down the definition of conversion pr…
Topic: Uncategorized Category: Uncategorized Keywords: Uncategorized, lgbtq, news, politics, trans, transgender Type: article Trust: unrated

Upholding trans children’s rights

Trans children have rights under international and domestic law, and we can be more assertive both in calling attention to rights violations, and in demanding institutions uphold these rights in policy and practice. This accountability should be more robust in Scotland, who in 2024 brought the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) &#8230…
Topic: Uncategorized Category: Uncategorized Keywords: Uncategorized, Gender, lgbtq, news, politics, transgender Type: article Trust: unrated

Prejudice and the Unmarked/Marked Mindset

This piece is being simultaneously released as both a video essay (which you can watch on YouTube via that link) and a written essay (which you can read here).
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Reading Australia’s Vine Review: Part Two

[This is really long and is a live-note taking as I read through from pages 27-100 of the report. I won’t do beyond page 100] Looking for balance The following image is provided to illustrate contrasting conclusions of different reviews of the same evidence base. One the left, and in favour of trans healthcare we … Continue reading Read…
Topic: Uncategorized Category: Uncategorized Keywords: Uncategorized, Gender, health, lgbtq, politics, transgender Type: article Trust: unrated

Reading Australia’s Vine Review into trans youth healthcare: Part one – diagnosis and psychiatric control

On the 28th November, an Australian state review into trans youth healthcare, called the Vine Review, was published. It was commissioned in response to political fear-mongering about trans youth healthcare, including from the UK’s Cass Review. It was commissioned specifically for the state of Queensland, who have brought in a politically moti…
Topic: Uncategorized Category: Uncategorized Keywords: Uncategorized, depression, health, mental-health, politics, psychology Type: article Trust: unrated

It's a Relaunch!

I'm back with an exciting new series and regular format.
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AUSPATH KEY-NOTE SPEECH

In late November I attended the AUSPATH (Australian Association of Transgender Health) conference in Tasmania, Australia. I had been invited as the key-note speaker on the first full day of the conference, given a 50 minute slot (followed by 40 min panel discussion with head of WPATH and head of PATHA (New Zealand Association of … Continue re…
Topic: Uncategorized Category: Uncategorized Keywords: Uncategorized, Gender, lgbtq, politics, trans, transgender Type: article Trust: unrated

Reflections from AUSPATH

Last week I had the huge privilege of being invited to give a keynote speech at this year’s Auspath (Australian association of transgender health) conference, held in Tasmania. I loved being at Auspath, met many awesome people, and enjoyed learning about Australian approaches and best practices, many of which I wish the UK would learn … Conti…
Topic: Uncategorized Category: Uncategorized Keywords: Uncategorized, Gender, lgbtq, politics, trans, transgender Type: article Trust: unrated

Harming trans kids – Using art to capture the impacts of the Sussex ICB investigation

When puberty blockers were banned in June 2024, the legislation included a clause stating that those currently on blockers would not be medically detransitioned, and could continue care if adopted by an NHS GP. Only one NHS GP practice, WellBN in Brighton, agreed to take over this care, with trans adolescents and families from across … Contin…
Topic: Uncategorized Category: Uncategorized Keywords: Uncategorized, health, healthcare, news, politics, transgender Type: article Trust: unrated

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans healthcare service in Catalonia (Barcelona region), Spain. Transit is respected across the world for being a service that is leading the field in … Conti…
Topic: Uncategorized Category: Uncategorized Keywords: Uncategorized, health, healthcare, mental-health, NHS, politics Type: article Trust: unrated

Conversion therapy is harmful and shouldn’t inform NHS practice – new insights from clinical history.

Conversion therapy is harmful and shouldn’t inform NHS practice. This shouldn’t be controversial, but sadly in the UK conversive approaches are now mainstream. A new article just published today shines an important lived-experience perspective on some old clinical literature. An autoethnographic critique of a past report of inpatient psychiat…
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Bomb (a defusing bisexual stereotypes chapter)

For Bisexual Visibility Day, I am sharing this excerpt from my award winning book, 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel — a silly, surreal, sex-positive tale about an absurdist short fiction writer who dates ninety-nine different people named Eric for literature’s sake.
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The Worst of Both Worlds

How Straight People Sexualize Queer and Trans People
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Syril Karn and Reactionary Centrism

This essay contains spoilers for Andor season 1 through Andor season 2, episode 8 (but not episodes 9 through 12).
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Julia for Hire!

Due to recent unexpected personal circumstances, I am in a bit of a financial pinch.
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two new YouTube video essays!

on parasocial relationships and “reinforcing gender”
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The Logic of Protection

The fantasy that love is enough shrinks pro-trans politics down to nothing.
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Transgender Compromise

The Right and the Architects of Trans Inclusion Agree that Trans Girls Can't Play
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The Left Hand of the Law

Anti-Drag Law, the Police, and Trans Political Imagination
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Toward a Trans History of Abortion

Letting go of the analogy between transition and abortion also tells a better story of trans men and women's shared struggles–and differences.
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The Cis State II

No Promo…Género? Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My State-Assigned Gender
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The Way We Weren’t

What's the history of passing?
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Two Transsexuals Talk Nonbinary

Kadji Amin joins Jules to talk the category nonbinary, the asymmetry of trans masculinity and trans femininity, and a shared love of f*gottry.
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The Cis State

The state wants to identify as cis, with a disturbing authoritarian outcome hanging in the balance.
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