Category: How can we help people understand transgender individuals?

• 05/11/2015

  Update 2022 on Discrimination by RNLI against Transgender Woman

  Re: Discrimination by RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) against transgender woman It is now April 2022.  As I look back on what happened to me seven years ago, it is distressing to note that whatever progress had been made by transgender folk has now been largely reversed by the current hostility, particularly towards transgender women, […]
• 19/07/2012

  Woman smile more than men – so should you!

  Hi girls, When I was at Sparkle recently I noticed how many of the T-Girls on Canal Street and in the clubs and bars were walking around looking grim, not smiling, even frowning! This is a dead give-away that you are not a girl. Girls smile more than men when they are out in public […]
• 18/07/2012

  Those terms TV, CD, T-Girl, TG, TS – just artificial constructs so don’t take them too seriously

  Hi girls, This is about a website called TVChix. I am updating this post in the light of the bullying and harassment I suffered on this website, which is also the subject of a later post on this blog. My advice is avoid TVChix. I joined TVChix because so many girls at last year’s Sparkle […]
• 06/01/2012

  Six months since I transitioned – progress report

  It is now six months since I began living living full-time as a woman. My transition to the female gender full-time came about in early July, following this year’s Sparkle Transgender Weekend in Manchester.  It came about as a direct result of attending a presentation given by Dr. Luis Capitan, one of the facial feminisation […]
• 08/12/2011

  Facial Feminisation Surgery – Post 4

  It is five months since I transitioned from male to female and became Kate full-time.  It is just over a month since I had my Facial Feminisation Surgery (FFS). I have been moved by the number of people who have been supportive during and after my transition.  Strangers and acquaintances online who I have never […]
• 13/11/2011

  Facial Feminisation Surgery – Photos – Post 3

  Here are some photos taken before and immediately after my Facial Feminisation Surgery, during the first 9 days after surgery:
• 13/11/2011

  Facial Feminisation Surgery – Post 2

  Today is Tuesday 8th November, so it’s six days since I had my facial feminisation surgery (FFS) last Wednesday. We are in Marbella, Spain. I am sitting in bed writing this; Rosie has gone out shopping for Christmas pressies round the old part of Marbella town. Marbella is a really lovely place, now a classy […]
• 08/11/2011

  Facial Feminisation Surgery – Post 1

  Hi Girls, I am writing this and future posts about Facial Feminisation Surgery to reassure those of you who are considering it but are understandably worried and a bit scared about what is involved.  I also felt apprehensive about it, as it is major surgery, but I would like to reassure those that are thinking […]
• 13/09/2011

  Girl, 10, trapped in a boy’s body

  Girl, 10, trapped in a boy’s body By James Connell, from the Worcester News http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/9245624.Girl__10__trapped_in_a_boy_s_body/ 10:02am Monday 12th September 2011 A GIRL trapped in a boy’s body has made the brave decision to return to school for the new term as a girl. The 10-year-old, a year six pupil at primary school in Worcester, was […]
• 15/08/2011

  How can we help people understand transgender individuals?

  Olivia Foster, a lesbian who wrote a paper on transgender and homosexual individuals for her English class,  recently commented how transgender and homosexual individuals are socially isolated from society. She asked: ‘How do you think we could help people understand transgender individuals? I really want an inside opinion! Thank you so much!’ This was my […]