Category Archives: Empowerment

Let’s go get em….

So how am i feeling today… up and down… up and down… up and down…. focusing like a camera lense… tuning like an old radio… levelling on a set of scales… finding the balance…. Lots going on in the head… … Continue reading

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By eck… It’s been a while…

And there was I thinking I would not do a blog entry again… I did seriously think that…. after all I have never been a huge blogger, probably mostly out of laziness. If I could get a good voice dictation … Continue reading

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CRG recruitment: Clinical Reference Groups: Patient and Carer Member Recruitment Launched

So…… fancy applying for this anyone…. it’s worth a chance if you want to get involved, don’t be put off… you won’t know if you don’t try…. 🙂 The NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB) has opened the application process for … Continue reading

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The tide is turning… It’s time to ride that wave…

It’s taken me a week or so to get around to writing a blog about press intrusion and the medias “monstering” of trans people, I think the story around Lucy Meadows has hit many of us hard, for me from … Continue reading

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Terminology… the stumbling block to working together…

I just wanted to touch base on an oldie again because I see this issue as utterly important to try and tackle more to move forward and let me really stress the point here, never has there been more an … Continue reading

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Welcome to a not so new new blog…

Hi 🙂 Welcome to anyone new picking this blog up, and familiar faces too… I warn you it’s different because I will spin things I want to talk about from my viewpoint… and you say what is new about that … Continue reading

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The Chance to get a decent English Protocol

Draft Department of Health guide on transgender care pathway Ok this is where we need as many people to be involved and to push for a better protocol, please read all the way through to the bottom of this page … Continue reading

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I understand why UK Trans organisations stay out of the thick of it…

I do understand why UK trans organisations have tended to shy away from listening too closely to grass roots issues… Because it must be like someone with a short wave radio trying to listen through the sludge for something clear… … Continue reading

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Honesty…

What is it with so many people when it comes to being honest… It’s like the first line of defence is to find some sort of excuse… there was always something in the way that stopped me/us from doing something, … Continue reading

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You Don't Know How It Feels

You don’t know how it feels… the perfect joker card… perfect for trans people…. Apparently unless you are trans you don’t know how it feels… and someone cisgender has no clue so that’s why they are likely to be transphobic… … Continue reading

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