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Transitioning with Sugar Swan

OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar – TNG – The Next Generation

OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar – TNG – The Next Generation

Firstly, I need to apologise to my regular readers. I’m sorry there was no January column from me, I’ll be open and honest as to why. A lot of people look up to me and I get a lot of positive feedback from my work, other trans people are glad to see trans representation in Gscene and strangers get i

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

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

FEATURE: Transitioning with Sugar

FEATURE: Transitioning with Sugar

It came as a surprise to many when this time last year I came out as non-binary and then six months later came out once more as a transgender woman. Having fled my oppressive London Home County suburb aged 20, I landed in Kemptown and I have worked, lived, socialised and volunteered on the scene eve

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