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The BBC reports that members of an “anti-establishment cult” have been jailed for trying to kidnap a coroner. What the BBC hasn’t clearly reported (and neither has The Guardian or The Telegraph, the latter of which devoted three pages to the case) is why they were doing it. They intended to enact a “death sentence”… [more]
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Let’s do this again, shall we? There have been a spate of important trans-related stories in the press this week, and predictably they have all been misreported. First up, after a long inquiry into the trans charity Mermaids, the Charity Commission found no evidence of the wrongdoing alleged by anti-trans activists and their pals in… [more]
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I’m not a person of faith, but I thought this speech by Jay Hulme, “The Genderweird Vibe of God”, was illuminating. It’s about transgender people and the Christian faith, and whether the latter has room for the former. For Hume, the answer is a definite hallelujah. The core of the anti-trans movement, and therefore anti-trans… [more]
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There is a long and horrific history of conversion therapy being used against LGBTQ+ people, and we’ve known for a very long time that it’s dangerous, damaging quackery. This article by Mallory Moore is a good introduction and comes with a ton of content warnings; it describes some very awful things done by supposedly respectable… [more]
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More than 200 trans people (that we know of) in the UK have been refused basic healthcare by their GPs, in many cases after years of receiving that healthcare. A new report (PDF) by TransActual goes into detail: in most cases it’s not that new requests are being refused; it’s that existing healthcare is being… [more]
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I’m proud and delighted to be one of the contributors to, and one of the mentors involved in, the new Queer Words anthology Fierce Salvage. It’ll be published in January 2025 and features a dizzying array of LGBTQ+ talent. And me. I haven’t had the opportunity to read the other contributions just yet bar one,… [more]
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On Friday, a group of trans kids disrupted the conference of everybody’s favourite pretendy-gay organisation, the LGB Alliance, by releasing thousands of crickets into the white-haired audience shortly after JK Rowling delivered a short speech from her luxury yacht. The LGB Alliance is, of course, the Tufton Street-based, dubiously funded anti-trans organisation who admitted in… [more]
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Juliette, who writes the Kierkegaard’s Lunch blog, has written a dual review of the Will and Harper road movie where Will Ferrell goes on a trip with his recently transitioned trans friend Harper Steele. The first half of the review is for cisgender people: Watch it all and pick a side. Because you can’t be neutral … [more]
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Like pretty much every other trans person on the planet, I watched Will Ferrell’s Netflix documentary Will & Harper. It’s a road trip featuring the titular duo, the Hollywood actor and his recently transitioned friend. Niko Stratis, a writer who is also trans, posted an interesting review that doesn’t gloss over the film’s flaws but… [more]
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Ireland introduced self-ID for legal gender recognition in 2015 – the same system we’ve endlessly told will lead to a “wave” of people changing their gender. The latest figures have been published and show that from September 2015 to 2021, the total number of people who changed their gender legally was just 882. The male/female… [more]
Read me in books
My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.
My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.
I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.
