A note from Emma: I’m listening to Katy Tur’s biography at the moment and recording for the Women’s Rights Network, so my head is filled with the complex reactions we have to our father’s revelation. It’s difficult to think back to me at 11, looking at my father for the first time in his new…
Once again, the press brings us news about gender ideology in schools. As a child of a transitioner, it was shocking to read in this week’s Times that a Headteacher on the Isle of Wight, following Cornwall school guidance, wrote to the parents of a six-year-old to state the child would be viewed as transphobic…
(Note from Emma: I am very pleased to again publish a guest contributor, whose article on ‘How to Help Children of Transitioners’ was the most read on the site in 2021. Here is another powerful piece that really gets to the nuts and bolts of what it is like to be a child of a…
Dave Chappelle and Daphne’s Daughter Dave Chappelle’s last special for Netflix, ‘The Closer’, has created much controversy. At time of writing, some Netflix employees have walked out and issued demands that Netflix hire lots of trans people and give them tons of money to make content. Chappelle has courted controversy for a while over the…
The site received a lot of attention last week, when Maya Forstater kindly linked to one of our articles on Twitter. There were some lovely and positive and supportive comments from readers. Thank you! The article, written by the daughter of a transitioner, referred to the breach of privacy and safety male transitioners can be…
Much more frequently, Children of Transitioners are appearing in the media as part of our father’s narrative. It’s uncomfortable to watch a younger version of yourself put through this, with their boundaries, privacy and dignity totally disregarded by our narcissistic dads. One day these children will look back at what their fathers put in the…
In the UK, the government is currently holding an inquiry into reform of the Gender Recognition Act. The act was originally written for transsexuals, but there has been a lot of pressure to enable anyone who wants a Gender Recognition Certificate to apply to change their legal status. The original GRA gave some ability to…
[Note from Emma: I am so pleased to host this piece from a guest contributor. It’s very easy to become bogged down with abstract discussions about sex and gender identity, but for children of transitioners dealing with a trans parent is our reality. Here is how you can help.] We have noticed people are starting…
First of all, thank you to everyone for the positive reception of my piece on autogynephilia, which received more views than all my previous pieces combined last year. I also highly recommend this article on the subject, although it focuses more on the position of the T within LGBT, given that most of the ‘T’…
I inherited the letters my father sent to his parents in the early 1980s. In an early letter, my father explains:“I am what is known as a ‘trans-sexual’. For people who do not ‘suffer’ from the syndrome the whole concept is difficult to understand, but I will do my best to describe the problem. The…