Opinion

In 2022 I made a video about my attempt to get gender-affirming care from the NHS entitled “I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times.” I showed that Britain operates a discriminatory healthcare system in which trans people have to beg permission to transition whilst the same medicine is available to cis people much easier. This results in years-long delays that have contributed to the deaths of multiple patients. I compared my odyssey through the system to the Joseph Heller novel Catch-22.

Hilary Cass brands critics of her report on trans kids as “shroud-wavers,” while MPs and activists expose the flaws in her claims and their dangerous implications.

As we entered the final month of the year; 2024 really wanted to make sure we don’t forget her by delivering us an assassination, an…

Last week was Rainbow Laces week. Football clubs up and down the pyramid dedicate matches to LGBTQ+ inclusion. Players can choose to wear the accessories in solidarity with LGBTQ+ fans and to signal to any closeted footballers that they are a safe person to come out to. Club captains may also replace their usual armband with one adorning the rainbow flag.

Human rights activist, Black travesti, and eloquent politician — this is Erika Hilton, the first Black trans person to take a seat in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies and lead a parliamentary bench in Congress. A member of the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL), Erika has spearheaded a political movement that combines pressing public interest issues with cultural initiatives and social mobilizations.

We are stronger together and the only way any of this is ever going to improve is if we work and fight together to put the bigots back in their boxes. I’m proud of myself for fighting a racist on a train, sure there are things that in hindsight I would have done differently. But I will never not be overjoyed with the knowledge that I’m not the kind of person to just let someone be abused, I love that that is who I am.

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A few years ago, if you asked me whether I would be able to complete a 500 mile walk in six weeks, across clifftops, and through mountains, I’d have laughed in your face. However, a few months ago, I arrived at Durham Cathedral, having done that exact thing.