Tag: Transphobic

The first time I went to a psychologist I was 15, I’d just come out as a cisgender gay man and one of my parents thought it’d be a good idea to “get my bearings” by which they meant get myself back on the road to heterosexuality. Back then, fortunately, I already kn...

“No. Simple answer. Of course not. This is one of the big political hot potatoes of the day. There are plenty of people who suffer— Not plenty, there are a few people who suffer from what’s called gender dysphoria, where they feel they’ve been born into the wrong bo...

It was July. My wife and I had not spoken for two weeks. Fourteen days without a shared word. This was a low ebb. I would have preferred harsh words to silence. The words were on my tongue. Something had to give. Divorce is a loaded word. The act of separation can mean destruction, or it can mean...

My kids and I stopped at a local convenience store where we are frequent flyers. A day like any other, in a town where everyone knows everyone. My kids want a drink and a snack before we head off to do whatever it is that the rest of this day holds. Today will be just a little different, but we d...

I don’t believe that in launching JK Rowling’s latest transphobic argument she bothered to include the statistics she used to reach this conclusion. However luckily for us, whenever transphobes think they’ve finally found the golden ticket that makes all of their bigoted nonsense l...