She knew she wanted to be a woman, but she wasn’t yet sure which woman she wanted to be. Changing her name was, in many ways, a lot more difficult than changing her gender. Especially for her family and friends. Legally changing your name is one of the steps to changing your sex. It was ...
It can be a lonely world for transsexuals who often feel like they don’t belong with people of either gender. The world’s first transsexual supermodel has hit the runways and with so much attention on who she really is she probably has it worse than anybody.
Dear Madame X, Ok this is a weird one. My boyfriend is stealing my birth control pills. I noticed that when I would go to take a pill that one will be missing, but I thought I had miscounted. It happened again and again so I started counting. Yep, they’re going missing. The other day ...
The bane of my existence, the female school uniform, might just be illegal in the UK. Forcing transgender girls to dress in skirts runs afoul of equality and human rights legislation, meaning that schools can’t force any girls into the soul sucking plaid. Perhaps this clothing item will end up where it belongs, in history ...
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
April Ashley, Britain’s first transsexual to have a sex change, celebrates her 50th anniversary of being a woman next year. She is now taking part in an exhibition at Welcome Collection exploring how identity is formed and examines legal, emotional, and scientific aspects of transsexualism. Despite suffering beating from her parents, attempting suicide, being institutionalised, and being ...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
The British nation stood shocked this morning. No, it was nothing to do with us being back in recession...
Dear Madame X, I am in an interracial marriage. Things are fine most of the time, but members of...
There’s not much that hasn’t been said about Alexander Trocchi’s treatment of women, real and literary. I read Young...
Check out 200,000 years of of women’s hair and makeup!
My attention was brought this week to an article claiming that men exaggerate more than women. Nothing new in...
There I was in the supermarket. It was an ordinary day, in an ordinary shop. Nothing sinister about the...
Don’t tell anyone — but I turned 30 today! Last night, to celebrate the last day in my 20s,...
