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C.N. Lester
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Trans Like Me
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2017
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15 editions
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Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
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2023
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8 editions
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Gender Explorers: Our Stories of Growing Up Trans and Changing the World
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2020
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6 editions
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London Rebels
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Turning the clock back on trans rights
If you’re a trans person in the UK – love one, or even like one – then you will have already seen the transphobic guidance released by Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC): a cowardly release, late on a Friday night, following the significant rollback of trans legal recognition and protection in the UK by the Supreme Court last week. If you need an excellent primer on what the guidance does
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“Part of being trans, of being queer—not all of it, not for all people, but part—is in the re-imagining of what it is to be human. These are categories forged from the failure or refusal to acquiesce to majority rule.”
― Trans Like Me
― Trans Like Me
“Even when we are confused about someone’s gender, and don’t have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we have a choice to respond with kindness rather than cruelty.”
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“By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand, and suggests that there’s no point in trying.”
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“Part of being trans, of being queer—not all of it, not for all people, but part—is in the re-imagining of what it is to be human. These are categories forged from the failure or refusal to acquiesce to majority rule.”
― Trans Like Me
― Trans Like Me
“We cannot afford to be seduced by the sophistry of single-issue movements. As Audre Lorde so rightly said, we do not live single-issue lives.”
― Trans Like Me
― Trans Like Me
“Those looking to know how it feels, to have a chance at life in a congruent body, free of dysphoria? Just listen to trans people and what we know of our own lives. We have been speaking this truth for a long time.”
― Trans Like Me
― Trans Like Me
“This is the reason why it's insufficient to respond with accusations of being 'offended,' to say that anyone who disagrees with these pieces is not obliged to read them and can take their support elsewhere. Trans people may choose not to consume transphobic media; we have no choice about living in a world shaped by the misinformation.”
― Trans Like Me
― Trans Like Me
“Some of our modern history is extraordinary in what it shows us of cooperation and compassion, and some of it is a master class in excluding the most marginalized "for the greater good" of the most privileged.”
― Trans Like Me
― Trans Like Me
