Genspect
Here is my speech at the Genspect conference in Lisbon in September 2024. A big thank you to everyone at Genspect to helped to make this happen. It’s a huge deal for us to have a voice on an international stage.
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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…
Not Shutting Up
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…
Precious messages… and a little bit of hate mail!
First of all, I hope that all of the children of transitioners who wrote in got SOME reply from me! My gmail seems pretty unreliable. Your messages are very important. I hope that at some point you might consider writing something yourself about your experience. Just get in touch. All of the messages so far…
The Judges’ Bench Book
(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…
Reading Christine Benvenuto’s ‘Sex Changes’
One of the first emails I received when I launched this site included a recommendation for Christine Benvenuto’s ‘Sex Changes’. It’s wonderful, and definitely recommended for children of transitioners. It’s a biographical account of Benvenuto’s experience of being a happy married woman with children whose husband one day, out of the blue, announces that he…
