Mindfulness is a wonderful tool for discovering yourself and what makes you tick. If you have depression, anger, resentment, abandonment, rejection, and all sorts of other painful emotions, then look no further. Mindfulness has taught me a lot about how my childhood and early adulthood created who I am now. My experiences very much coloured my
More ...A trip to Brighton to the BBC Sussex studios was a mixture of rain and sun. I was given a bunch of papers to read and choose some stories to talk about on air. What surprised me was the crassness of some of these stories. Admittedly, I don’t read papers much but I found this
More ...I had yet another opportunity to converse with Iain Dale on LBC. It does seem America has gone mad. More rules and regulations on allowing religious groups and businesses to discriminate against gays and trans people. As if life isn’t hard enough already for the LBGT community. Some States have passed legislation to give permission
More ...I had another opportunity to converse with Iain Dale on LBC. This time the subject was toilets. Strange topic but some establishments are making toilets single sex, removing the urinals and installing stalls instead. And some are removing the signs to help trans people become more accepted in society. A good thing. But many people
More ...Everything in life has value. Even the darkest of actions of hate and revenge have value. You just have to be open enough and aware of your emotions, feelings and thoughts to see that value. And if you aren’t aware enough, you will never see that value, the bigger picture, and so choose anger, hate
More ...Transphobia seems to be on the rise again after we have had a flurry of activity in the trans world. Caitlyn Jenner, Kellie Maloney, me, The Danish Girl, comments by Germaine Greer and Jeremy Clarkson, and trans individuals being put in the inappropriate gender prison. More suicides. And murders. It seems never ending. All the
More ...There comes a point in everyone’s life where something that was exceedingly opaque becomes exceedingly transparent, its meaning becoming blindingly obvious. It was as though I had metaphorically stuffed a Babel Fish into my ear and listened to a translation of a long held proverb into another language, a language I actually understood; the language
More ...I was very surprised when BBC Surrey Radio emailed me for another interview. Only a month ago I was in the studio with Mark Carter listening to me voicing some really challenging, deeply emotional stuff about my transgender experiences. This time, with the new BBC Two series ‘Boy meets Girl’ being broadcast over the next few weeks,
More ...On July 29th 2012, I first met Mark Carter when I filmed the Olympic cycle races which came through our village. On July 29th 2015, I emailed Mark to see if he would be interested in the book I was about to publish describing my experiences with gender dysphoria. I realised later that I had actually emailed to
More ...It is said that life is about the choices one makes, the consequences of those choices and the willingness to accept the responsibility for those consequences. Most of us at one time or another shirk those responsibilities and put the blame onto another person. For me, in my childhood, I learnt very quickly that when
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