Category: LGBTQ+

  • Old man shouts at crowds

    Herald columnist Iain Macwhirter, pictured, has gone off on one about trans people again. Yesterday he claimed on twitter that calling cisgender women cis “is the most extreme form of misogyny”, which I’m sure will be news to many women who’ve endured much worse things than being accurately labelled with a latin prefix. Cis is…

  • Weaponising freedom and fake science

    One of the tricks the far right likes to use is phony science. They claim “facts don’t care about your feelings” while putting their feelings above actual facts, such as how human biology works. Scientific American has had enough of their shit and their “facts don’t care”. these “protectors of enlightenment” are guilty of the…

  • Frankie Boyle is a good bad man

    I went to see the comedian Frankie Boyle last night. As ever, he said many terrible things because he’s a really bad man. I laughed so hard for so long I’m actually a bit sore today. I don’t go to as much comedy as I used to, even though I love live comedy: I got…

  • No-one wants to see my tits

    Sorry about the title. My mum reads this blog and I couldn’t resist the opportunity to make her spit out her coffee. I mentioned this study before: it asked around 1,000 people about the genders they would consider dating. It wasn’t brilliant news for trans people. The study gave respondents a list of five types…

  • Love prevails

    Another beautiful NYT piece by Jennifer Finney Boylan, this time to mark the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. As a young trans girl, I could only assume that the odds against me were long. What would happen, I wondered, if I spoke aloud the thing that was in my heart? Even worse: What would happen if…

  • The song remains the same

    I’m writing about some really horrible things today so let’s start with something beautiful instead: here’s Swedish group Erato covering Robyn’s Call Your Girlfriend. Okay. Let’s talk about hate. Writing in Buzzfeed, Patrick Strudwick speaks to a man whose name should be more widely known. Terry Sanderson was a lone voice against the media bullying…

  • If only there were some explanation

    Today, in The Guardian: That’s the same Guardian that’s printed inflammatory drivel about trans people for months now. The same Guardian whose US staff were so outraged by its promotion of “transphobic viewpoints” that they took the unprecedented step of writing an open letter damning their UK colleagues. Maybe their UK colleagues should read it…

  • LGBT+ articles you should read today

    This is a powerful and important piece by Katelyn Burns, one of very few trans journalists, on the problem with mainstream reporting on LGBT+ issues: the lack of dedicated LGBTQ media is a disaster. It begins with something depressingly common: a major newspaper highlighting the views of a website crank as some kind of expert,…

  • True colours

    It’s no great secret that anti-trans bigots tend to be bigoted in other ways too; they just hide it. The ongoing hate-fest over the NSPCC working with and then dropping trans woman Munroe Bergdorf is a vivid demonstration. The NSPCC has apologised for dropping Bergdorf, but its employees aren’t happy: 148 of its employees have…

  • More straight pride

    Today is the third anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, in which 49 LGBT+ people were slaughtered. It was the single deadliest lone gunman mass shooting in US history, the worst terrorist atrocity since 9/11. To commemorate it, a number of US Christian fundamentalists will hold a rally in Orlando. The rally…