Pleased to announce my article will be being translated into Lithuanian!

if you'd like to learn more about the travails of being trans and foreign, i can highly recommend this lovely article. the case of "Anna" here is eerily similar to my own!

My first piece is up on the nightmares of bureaucracy and healthcare as a trans person caught between countries:

www.eurozine.com/trans-nation...

3/ In a major development, the Advocate General stated that under EU law provisions on freedom of movement and fundamental right to private and family life, Member States have an obligation to legally recognise the lived gender of their nationals.

2/ The case was brought forward by a Bulgarian trans woman currently living in Italy.

Her requests to legally amend her gender marker and name on her Bulgarian documents were repeatedly denied by Bulgarian courts.

🧵 We welcome the Opinion of the Advocate General in CJEU saying that EU Member States must allow legal gender recognition!

Read the full joint statement with @ilgaeurope.bsky.social on our website: www.tgeu.org/landmark-opi...

got followed by some pretend Elon Musk account, serves me right for barely posting on this account i guess

I recommend reading my colleague Samantha Rosenthal's account of being fired from her job teaching at Washington & Lee University after administrators acquiesced to a sustained campaign of transphobic and transmisogynistic harassment against her: 70014.substack.com/p/i-was-hire...

getting the sensation I could wear my finger down to the nub if I was going to tap the 'trans women are biological women' sign every time I see something using the latter term this week

I keep saying the response to 'but it's just basic biology' transphobia should be to teach about trans people and transition as part of basic biology in schools. It's not difficult to understand and then maybe people, even well-meaning ones, would stop saying such ridiculous ill-informed shit?

Very interestng, also deeply frustrating and provoking article by Emilia Sidoli, @transpadana.bsky.social, about the slings and arrows of navigating an international existence as a trans person.

Since Norway is mentioned, I can confirm that Norway is a strange case

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Trans rights news from Norway:

We were preparing for the Pride parade tomorrow as news broke that the only gender affirming clinic in Norway stops all new hormone treatments for trans youth.

The only option left for trans youth is the national clinic, where an est. 78 % face conversion therapy.

Sth I haven't developed so much in this article that someone brought up is how in many countries changing your gender automatically ends your marriage, and if you've got a relationship where one of you is dependent on a spousal visa that can mean you face a choice between your gender and your home

Lots of other trans people have been getting in touch and saying how this chimes with their experiences - I'm glad to be able to give us a voice!

just look at this Eurotrash, tanked on Chimay and smoking a Gauloise in Brussels sometime in 2024 in a way she hoped would say 'author photo'

The Spanish introduce an exclamation with an anticipatory inverted ¡; the Germans only reach this level of punctuatory excitement when it comes to a citation „

My first piece is up on the nightmares of bureaucracy and healthcare as a trans person caught between countries:

www.eurozine.com/trans-nation...