Many readers have seen Children of Transitioners’ letter from Sussex NHS Trust (thanks for your help Lottie/ Biology Matters project) link here. Policy Exchange Biology Matters COTS Letter Many press reports focus on the male secretion content rather than the ethics of unnecessary experiments with unlicensed drugs on babies or the use of infants in sexual…
Readers from the US will undoubtedly be more familiar with the news reporter Katy Tur than those in the UK. She has been a broadcast journalist for years and is noted in particular for her coverage of the Trump campaign. She is barely known in the UK, so you will forgive me I hope that…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
It’s been a revelation to read Heather Bryant’s ‘My Trans Parent’, finally hearing people discuss having similar experiences to mine. Several key areas are discussed in the book. Feelings of resentment, love, anger and grief are explored. Nuances and complications are addressed. There are helpful check lists at the ends of chapters with ‘prompts’ suggesting…