Another couple of years on the run, a sleep apnea diagnosis which has suddenly made my life much easier, an anonymous small house in a small town with nothing to make it famous, and a non-profit helping trans people in trouble. I've been a grown-up for well over three decades, and probably for the first time in my life I feel I'm part of something I believe to be lasting and worthwhile, with a legacy.     Trans Rescue is a small non-profit with the remit of helping trans people worldwide get out of dangerous situations. It started life as a more informal group of ..read more

    One Year After, and it's been a long year.     One year after what, you say? Last year I came back from the BornHack hacker camp in Denmark, to find that my family were making me homeless out of the blue. In the middle of the second wave of a global pandemic, and going into the UK's second lockdown.     I never knew how unpleasant my family could be until last year. It's difficult to write about, because I have no frame of reference. Sure, some family members have their moments, but to have them all conspiring to be as nasty as they were through those few week ..read more

    If you've followed British current affairs of late you'll probably be aware that our Government is probably not experiencing its finest hour. The British Conservative Party have in their time produced some of our finest statesmen and women, yet it's safe to say that Boris Johnson and his team are not among them. Aside from a likely calamitous cliff-edge Brexit and a shambolic response to the coronavirus pandemic which has left us with one of the highest per-capita death rates in the world, their latest gambit is to mull over not only abandoning the Gender Recognition Act reforms ..read more

    It's a thing, in our community of transitioners, that people fade away. The challenges of getting through all this are overcome, they have whatever they consider makes them a Real Woman, and they're gone. We've all lost friends that way, the old internalised transphobia making them drop their trans community like a hot potato, in case they are reminded that they too are one of us.     It's now about 18 months and a bit since I had my surgery, God knows how many years down the line along a very difficult path. That's not the end of my transition, because in reality tran ..read more