Equalities Minister Liz Truss sets out her disturbing plan for reforms to the Gender Recognition Act In Liz Truss’s speech, she goes on to mention three specific issues, none of which are actually anything to do with the GRA or the recent consultation held on its reform. Equalities Minister Liz Truss sets out her disturbing plan for reforms to the Gender Recognition Act By Sam Hall • 5 min read
The virus does not discriminate, but WE do. The virus does not discriminate, but WE do. A GP speaks out. By Sam Hall • 2 min read
OPINION: Sam Trans Man – Thinking beyond gender. Dr Samuel Hall on dismantling the false divide and achieving true equality. Just recovering from my second lot of genital surgery. The first operation, where they skinned my arm to make my penis and sliced both buttocks up to cover the deficit on said arm, left me deeply traumatised, both physically By Sam Hall • 4 min read
OPINION: Sam Trans Man – A reason to live! I’ve been putting off writing this column for a while. Partly, I think, because I always feel like a bit of a fraud when it comes to writing about HIV, which this month’s issue is dedicated to. I feel like a fraud because in the 1980s and 90s I was a bystander, an outsider to the LGBT+ communities. By Sam Hall • 4 min read
OPINION: Sam Trans Man – On the road Dr Samuel Hall on how parenting is a privilege, and sending your kids out into the big wide world. I’ve just lost a weekend. Setting off on Friday night with my eldest child on a road trip to deliver her to university, we stayed overnight with friends in the north, and then drove further north sti By Sam Hall • 4 min read
OPINION: Sam Trans Man – What is gender? ONCE A year in July the Gscene issue is given over to all things trans… I love it. This year even more so because the editor is encouraging us to talk about gender. And gender is my favourite subject. By Sam Hall • 4 min read
OPINION: Sam Trans Man on drugs Dr Samuel Hall on the drugs he’s dependent on and how his brain is rewiring itself in his second puberty. Please forgive my indulgence, since I’ve little to say about chemsex as per last month’s theme, instead I’m exploring the influence of a drug that I’m totally dependent on for both my physical a By Sam Hall • 4 min read
#MyPronounsAre – a city wide campaign celebrating Trans Visibility Day This week sees the launch of #MyPronounsAre, a city-wide initiative from Brighton & Hove City Council. Our local services have a well established history of engaging with and on behalf of the trans communities both at home and abroad, and this is a campaign in the spirit of inclusivity that really m By Sam Hall • 2 min read
OPINION: Sam Trans Man on the internet Dr Samuel Hall on the risky business of opening up online to change how people think. I made it! When I last wrote my column I was on the brink of surgery that I’m now slowly mending from. And what an incredible month it’s been. I’ve had highs and lows, mishaps and setbacks, euphoria and dysphoria, By Sam Hall • 4 min read
Community News OPINION: Sam Trans Man Dr Samuel Hall on the gender binary and how it’s the final hurdle in the battle for equality. I recently glimpsed the potential to educate people about trans issues via this publication and its readership through a different lens. I’ve been writing for Gscene for almost five years, and although it o By Sam Hall • 4 min read
Community News LETTER TO EDITOR: Clare Project stand with Pride! As a trans community representative, I want to express my support for Pride and the Rainbow Fund which benefits from it. The Rainbow Fund is a crucial source of grant funding for many grass-roots community-led groups in the LGBT+ sector including those run by, and for trans and non-binary people. By Sam Hall • 1 min read
Community News FEATURE: Sam Trans Man Dr Samuel Hall on why we should be talking about depression, often and widely. As I write we are enjoying unseasonably good weather with temperatures on the weekend of the Brighton Marathon reaching the low 20ºs. Marvellous. I can anticipate the lifting of my mood as the trees begin to bud and the c By Sam Hall • 4 min read
Community News OPINION: Sam Trans Man on love When it comes to writing this column, I’m usually awash with ideas until I actually put pen to paper, at which point all those brilliant soundbites and gems of wisdom that have been popping into my head for weeks suddenly seem to desert me! I’m becoming increasingly familiar with writers’ block, and By Sam Hall • 4 min read
Community News OPINION: Male Icons – Sam Trans Man Dr Samuel Hall on why 2016 wasn’t all bad and where we need to be if we want to change the world. By Sam Hall • 4 min read
Community News Transgender Day of Remembrance Memorial Service today at 2pm On Sunday, November 20, from 2-4pm at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church, Brighton & Hove’s trans community will be holding their annual memorial event for those who have died this year as a result of their perceived gender identity. By Sam Hall • 1 min read
Community News The Clare Project – moving forward The Clare Project began as a monthly transgender support group in a Brighton & Hove beauty salon in 2000, with local grants supporting much needed and affordable psychotherapeutic counselling. By Sam Hall • 3 min read
