In this article, Jonathan Boniface rejects the notion put forward by Rebecca Reid in her recent Metro article that it’s time for trans people to be more receptive to cis people’s concerns about trans issues.
Tag: trans
Cis is not a slur
Karen Pollock explores why in order to challenge the process of othering we have to accept we all have labels and identities.
Boys and girls come out to play
Our curator Karen Pollock explores the sudden media fascination with trans kids, and trans masculine identities, and asks what it tells us about societies attitudes to gender diversity.
Queer Media; it’s time to do better bi us
In light of recent biphobic articles published by queer media outlets, Lois Shearing addresses some of the myths perpetuated both outside of and within the LGBTQ+ community.
Navigating age and ageism within trans communities
Sam Hope explores the complexity of a type of oppression that time is constantly changing
What it’s like to be out but not out-out as a bisexual
Lois Shearing explores what it means to be out, but not out-out as a bisexual and why it’s important to respect our identity, even if we sometimes let ourselves ‘pass’.
Suffer little children
Karen Pollock takes issue with the latest gutter press article about trans young people.
“Yesterday my uncle asked me what cisgender meant ?”
In a guest post for human rights month, Douglas Robertson explores the growing awareness of trans rights in popular consciousness – and how it’s time for cis people to pick a side.
The problem comparing trans people with blackface
The problem of comparing self-promoting white people doing blackface with the millions of trans people worldwide is explored by Sam Hope.
When free speech costs
Amid signs of an emboldened far right on both sides of the Atlantic, Sam Hope explores how a distorted version of “free speech” has become toxic.
