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OPINION: Craig’s Thoughts

OPINION: Craig’s Thoughts

“Isn’t it great that Pride feels like a national celebration now?”, my husband exclaims as we wander around London for some last minute holiday shopping. And as I look around at every other shop, wall, skyward banner and lamppost, adorned with some manifestation of the rainbow, I cannot help but agr

OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar – ‘You need to be more ladylike’

OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar – ‘You need to be more ladylike’

Those 6 words. Those 6 words that I have heard over and over again in many different guises since I began transition feed into a cis narrative in which I neither belong, nor wish to. The OED defines ‘lady’ as ‘a polite or formal way of referring to a woman’. Well, I am a woman, so therefore, I am a

OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar – Looking Forward by Ms Sugar Swan

OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar – Looking Forward by Ms Sugar Swan

Today sees me one week post op of my fourth, and hopefully last, hair transplant surgery. Back in late February I headed to Latvia after a long search for a surgeon who would take on my hair restoration case. A tricky one due to the very advanced state of my balding. In April’s Gscene I covered the

OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar: Trans exclusionary feminism by Ms Sugar Swan

OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar: Trans exclusionary feminism by Ms Sugar Swan

When I came out very publicly as trans, I was flooded with love and respect and within the first month of ‘being out’ half a dozen people had contacted me and come out as trans. Some of them I knew from Brighton, some I didn’t, but they all had the same message for me: “Thank you for talking about t

OPINION PIECE: Time for Trans people to come out of the shadows

OPINION PIECE: Time for Trans people to come out of the shadows

Over the past few years transgender visibility has improved greatly with a number of trans people becoming very public through the media and I was even featured on Match of the Day’s Premier League football show recently.

FEATURE: Transitioning with Sugar: Hair today – gone tomorrow

FEATURE: Transitioning with Sugar: Hair today – gone tomorrow

I remember a time in the late 1980’s when I was in school and my hair was long and my mother said I needed it cut for the school photographs. Obviously, being a little trans girl I didn’t want my hair cut, so, in an act of defiance, whilst my father who took me to the barbers was outside having a ci

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