The Intersection of Queer Identity and Atheism
As a transgender person I have had my own personal battle with acceptance; the acceptance of family, friends and society. Nearly three years into my transition I stumbled across a […]
Public Toilets (With My Dad)
A strange title I know. But something happened yesterday that has never happened before. I’m twenty years old. I’ve been transitioning since I was seventeen. But I’ve never been in […]
Being Stealth Around Other Transgender People
I decided when I went to University that I would keep my transgender identity private. Not a secret. It is a part of myself that I consider to be personal […]
Reading Online Hate
Waking up this morning I decided I wanted to write another post about a transgender person, someone that I find inspirational. I do this as when I began my transition […]
Christian Talks
Unexpectedly, I spent my week attending these talks. Whilst I was anticipating certain answers, I think I’ve ended up with more questions than I began with. My head hurts from […]
Can you be Transgender and be a Christian?
“This is a rebellion against God’s plan.” – Pastor Jeffress (TruNews) This last week I have been attending a series of talks given by those of the Christian faith, on […]
2018
A new year. Most people imagine a whole new reinvented version of themselves. Not me. I’m interested in furthering what I’ve already started. A clean slate isn’t what I’m looking […]
Trying To Find ‘Me’
In my last post, I said there was nothing else for me to say. To be honest, I didn’t think I’d be back, at least for a while. Yet, here […]
Transitioning Has Made Me A Better Person
I think about the person that I used to be, and I feel completely distant from my past self. Humans have an obsession with the idea of self, our worlds […]
Being His Son
I remember writing on this blog how I told my father that I was transgender, how scared I was to tell him, in fact, he was the hardest person to […]
Late Night Thoughts
Being able to write is liberating, even if no one reads the words, that’s not what matters. What matters is I declutter everything that I have trouble with, I think […]
A Letter To My Past Self
I don’t know what happened to you, it was as if you disappeared more and more every day and then you were suddenly gone. I still have your body but […]
I Feel Tortured
I always thought that the more I was used to transitioning, the methods, the life, it would become easier. Instead, I feel tortured, there is a constant pulse in the […]
Was I Meant To Happen?
Quite a lot of people will ask themselves this at least once in their lifetimes. I find myself asking the question more frequently, it creeps up on me when I’m […]
My First Hand Experience With Hate
You hear stories of people being confronted by hateful people, because of their gender, sexuality or race. Reading and hearing about these occurrences always made me emotional; either angry or […]
An Urge To Say Goodbye
Since being at university, living independently, trying to work hard, I haven’t had much time to post on here. In some ways, I’m glad, there was a point in my […]
