Self-understanding: Guaranteed! Meg-John’s gender identity journey
This is Meg-John Barker here. I’m one of the authors of the new JKP book How to Understand Your Gender. JKP asked me to write…
Category: Gender Diversity
Have you ever questioned your gender identity?
‘How To Understand Your Gender’ is the ultimate gender identity bible. Here, we share some of the lived experiences of the many different gender diverse…
How To Understand Your Gender – Alex vs Meg-John
In this blog post, Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker interview each other about their new book ‘How to Understand Your Gender.’ Meg-John: Hey Alex. So,…
Mental health – a trans partner’s perspective
Jo Green, founder of Distinction Trans Partner Support and the author of The Trans Partner Handbook, explores the importance of talking openly about mental health…
Why the partners of trans people need support too
You’re in a relationship and your partner tells you that they want to transition. How do you feel? You want to support your partner’s choice,…
Your partner tells you that they’re trans. What do you do?
Finding Out Your Partner Is Trans Finding out that your partner is trans can be quite confusing for people, and the responses can vary greatly…
How does gender stereotyping really affect children?
Authors Ros Ball and James Millar co-run the popular Twitter account @GenderDiary, which they set up in 2011 to record all the ways their…
“I stopped to buy chewing gum and I was getting called ‘sir’ when I opened my mouth”
“When I was 35, when I went full time and was working in my office as a woman, I was acutely aware of the maleness…
Read an exclusive extract from “Straight Expectations: The Story of a Family in Transition”
Read an exclusive extract from Straight Expectations Chapter 13: The Transition (2004—2006) “I did my own research to get clear about what we were…
A Message To My 10 Year Old Self – from Fox Fisher
Fox Fisher is an illustrator, non-binary Trans campaigner, co-founder of Trans Pride Brighton and runs the My Genderation film project. He is the co-author of…