Drink, depression, homelessness and football injuries: the road to the director’s first feature, Sweetheart, has been difficult. She even dumped one project when her feelings about her gender identity changedMarley Morrison has written and directed a k…
NHS gender identity clinic whistleblower wins damages
Child safeguarding expert awarded £20,000 after bringing claim against Tavistock and Portman trustA child safeguarding expert who faced vilification after raising concerns about the safety of children undergoing treatment at a London NHS gender identit…
The shocking rise in anti-LGBTQ hate crime shows bigotry is still ruining lives | Owen Jones
Sadly, blending in for a quiet life remains a necessary survival strategy for far too many people in Britain todayIt is impossible to know how much of the surge in reported hate crimes against LGBTQ people is due to escalating harassment and violence, …
‘I feel like it’s quite shaky acceptance’: trans kids and the fight for inclusion
Trans children and their families still often face suspicion and suppression, but attitudes are changing‘My preconceptions about trans people came from the media, and I certainly hadn’t heard of trans children. So it just flummoxed me having an assigne…
London mayor’s office denies feminist activist’s claims over sacking
Joan Smith alleges she was sacked after raising concerns about trans women using domestic abuse refugesThe mayor of London’s office has denied claims that a prominent campaigner on violence against women was sacked after raising concerns about transgen…
Sex Education Xplorers (SEX) review – a biology lesson for the 21st century
Summerhall, EdinburghMamoru Iriguchi and Afton Moran raid their dressing-up box to give us a cheery guide to the evolutionary history of reproduction, and what it says about gender fluidity in humansI imagine the curriculum has changed since my day but…
Amia Srinivasan: ‘Sex as a subject isn’t weird. It’s very, very serious’
With her debut book, The Right to Sex, a 36-year-old Oxford don is dazzling everyone from Vogue to Prospect magazine. She discusses porn, gender dysphoria – and why her students are no snowflakesIf All Souls is one of the most inordinately beautiful co…
‘A nightmare scenario’: how an anti-trans Instagram post led to violence in the streets
Misinformation about Wi Spa, a Korean spa in Los Angeles, quickly spread around the world. Since then, trans women in LA have faced violence and online abuseOn 24 June, a woman claimed on Instagram that a Korean spa in Los Angeles had allowed a “man” t…