Fighting Back

Cal returned from the GIC last Tuesday, and the news was all good: like me, he has been granted a second appointment in February, at which point all going well he will be approved for HRT. The clinician seemed absolutely charmed with him (only naturally), and they had a good conversation. The fact that we...

GIC – First Assessment

Apologies for the delay, but things haven't stopped moving since I returned from London last Friday. As for the reason I was there at all... well, it certainly took a long time (albeit 11 months rather than the dreaded 13) and there were plenty of times I dreaded it wouldn't happen at all, or would...

Shell

"Let us be clear: there is no such thing as “sex-reassignment” surgery. A mutilated male pumped full of estrogen remains just that—a mutilated male pumped full of estrogen. He has not “transitioned” into being a woman. He can never be a woman." (Margaret A. Hagen, Transgenderism Has No Basis in Science or Law) "At the...

Little Miss Morbid

Owing to the recent extreme quietness of news on the transition front, which tends to test the morale, I dug out an old vampire novel Wolves of Dacia (nothing to do with cars) that I wrote around 2008, hoping to keep myself busy for awhile with editing and maybe see if I could make something...

Official Entity

Well it's only a small victory, but I had to resist the urge not to go SQUEEEEEE!!! quite loudly when something dropped through the post today. Especially as I examined all of the small print... No doubt some will be horrified at the apparent ease with which one can earn that little "F" in this...

Carpe Diem

Sands fall slow, yet gone Before you know. Take the rest To be who you are. (Images, as ever, by the wonderful Jason Marsh)

That would be an ecumenical matter…

When the world is wearing upon you, there is nothing like a spot of creativity to get you back up, I always think, so I was thrilled to be asked to shoot again on April the 1st by my partner-in-crime Jason Marsh. 🙂 This time we opted for a Gothic theme in Llandaff Cathedral. I...

Letting the Side Down

[Previous post redacted, due to having become stupidly redundant...] Originally on this blog, I posted some questions to the deep ecology group Deep Green Resistance, just in case tags and keywords actually work and they felt like dropping by... which, unamazingly, they didn't. I have since followed the rational, nay obvious course and just taken...

Beige Utopia

A while back (and in this post) I confessed to an anxiety that my desire to become, in some measure, a "lady" meant that my gender dysphoria had a morbid and regressive side to it: a desire to enact an outmoded, antifeminist gender model... which immediately drew some fire from the Radical Feminist trenches. Though...

Feel lucky, punk?

Just a quick visual post for today, as I have now received and resized the photos from my latest shoot with Jason Marsh. I love this photographer more than any I have ever worked with for various reasons... 1. He only works with vintage cameras and film - none of that boring DSLR stuff -...