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What does the April 2025 "Biological-Sex" Ruling Mean for Transitioned Women's Advocacy?
Recently, the UK Supreme Court delivered a decision that's caused considerable anxiety among trans women across the country. Headlines...

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Apr 207 min read
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The Quiet Codification of Control: Trans People and the Infrastructure of Forced Visibility
This week, the UK government confirmed what many of us feared: a centralised, non-consensual tracking system for transgender people is...

Transiness Admin
Mar 295 min read
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What good therapy looks like, and why you should know.
In a world where people are taught what to feel and think about transitioned women, identifying good therapy is vital. So often you come...

Transiness Admin
Mar 275 min read
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When Medical Chaperones aren't really Chaperones: The Reality for Transitioned Women.
Introduction When we talk about medical chaperones, what are we really talking about? Officially, a chaperone is someone present during...

Transiness Admin
Mar 1711 min read
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A call to action: An Open Letter to the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Justice meets equality and ethics: A Challenge for the NMC. To the Leadership of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, The Nursing and...

Transiness Admin
Feb 285 min read
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Emotionally, Yours. A Guide for Sensitive Communicators and Those Who Try To Engage With Us on Bluesky.
Foreword For years, online platforms confused me. How I managed to navigate a public-facing job with ease and grace, and how jarring and...

Transiness Admin
Jan 2910 min read
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The Essential Guide to Personal Safety for Trans Women and Girls
The recent tragic incidents involving the stabbing of trans women and girls by both strangers and people they knew personally underscores...

Transiness Admin
Jan 2519 min read
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From Silence to Strength - Embracing the Stories We Haven’t Told
Storytelling is a powerful means of communication that has been helping people connect throughout history. For trans women, sharing our...

Transiness Admin
Jan 196 min read
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Weaving Fragile Threads: Building Cohesion in Trans Women's Communities.
As our individual experiences are unique, we often face challenges that can make building a strong, cohesive community feel like an...

Transiness Admin
Jan 146 min read
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Carrying our stories - A Journey of Healing from Sexual Violence.
Foreword Four years ago, I wrote my initial blog about the problems and issues with seeking help for sexual violence as a trans person....

Transiness Admin
Jan 1112 min read
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The Oppression of Trans Women: Power Gradients and Health Inequalities
Research has found that healthcare was the most common setting in which trans women experienced discrimination compared with other...

Transiness Admin
Jan 106 min read
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Fight for Equitable Access to Hormone Replacement Therapy
In a world where equality is not just a dream but an urgent call for action, one recent event has sparked outrage and renewed...

Transiness Admin
Jan 45 min read
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Navigating Current Challenges: The Reality for UK Transitioned Women in early 2025
Trans women in the UK face numerous challenges, including limited access to healthcare, pervasive discrimination, and significant mental...

Transiness Admin
Jan 212 min read
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Building Personal Resilience in the Face of Systemic Oppression
In a world where traditional systems frequently fail marginalized individuals—especially trans women in the UK today—personal resilience...

Transiness Admin
Dec 28, 20246 min read
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Dilating and Douching for Transitioned Women: A Guide to Vaginal and Sexual Health
What Is Dilating and Why Is It Important? Transitioning comes with many exciting changes, but some aspects of it can feel like navigating...

Transiness Admin
Dec 24, 20247 min read
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Unregulated care becomes the UK's primary route to hormonal transition.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and it is no different in trans healthcare. Our investigation uncovers how a persecuted minority navigate healthcare

Transiness Admin
Dec 17, 20245 min read
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The War on Words — Unpacking the Battle Over Trans Rights in Journalism
Reproduced with kind permission by @mimmymum. Mimmymum 7 min read · Apr 15, 2024 Janice Turner’s intensely transphobic rhetoric in her...

Transiness Admin
Oct 19, 20247 min read
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Teenage transgender girls and young women are most at risk after 3 reported knife attacks in 6 months, two of which are attempted murder.
Teenage transgender girls and young women are most at risk after 3 reported knife attacks in 6 months

Transiness Admin
Aug 4, 20245 min read
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Academy of Medical Royal Colleges risks discrediting itself over the "trans issue".
Today, August 1st 2024, the AMRC chose to dismiss the critical appraisal of the Cass review findings by Yale and No-one et al, risking...

Transiness Admin
Aug 1, 20242 min read
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Louis Appleby: expert with no trans experience makes strawmen and spurious claims oustside his sphere of expertise.
After misrepresenting the widely discredited Cass Report to ban healthcare for TS young people, Wes Streeting, the Secretary of State for...

Transiness Admin
Jul 23, 20245 min read
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