Caitlyn Jenner asked Trump for help correcting the gender on passport The 76-year-old former Olympian said her identification listed her sex as 'M' despite  having all of her legal documents updated to reflect her transition.

Trump-supporter Jenner doesn't like having a male passport.
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My surname makes people laugh – so I turned it into a research communication tool Having my surname is a daily trial, eliciting a range of responses from suppressed to open laughter and unsolicited comments.

Going through life with the name of Mycock.

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Remembering Wilma Creith, Belfast bus driver.

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I have uploaded my review of Alison Li’s biography of Harry Benjamin to Academia.edu

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An emphasis on endocrinology, but with a total disinterest in Benjamin's patients, and an over-reliance on Meyerowitz for Hirschfeld's and Warnekos' patients.

Minge, Finocchio, Trollop, Hooker, Kanith are incidentally real names of real persons.

Why don't we use the word 'illth' more often for it describes in what we live.

Kinks guitarist Dave Davies hits back at Moby for calling 1970 single Lola ‘gross and transphobic’ The band’s co-founder responded to the US musician’s comments, defending the song and saying they are ‘not transphobic’

Dave Davies of the Kinks defends 'Lola' citing Cockettes and Jayne County.
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Andréa Furet (2002 - ) actrice Furet was rasied in Paris, father a communications manager, mother a journalist at the magazine Elle . Furet dreamed of acting, and at age 1...

Andréa Furet, a rising French actress.

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The War for Greater Israel - Craig Murray There has scarcely been an attempt to pretend any justification in international law for the attack on Iran and murder of its leader. The response of the UK government, focusing almost entirely on con...

Craig Murray: "What long-term lessons China, Russia and the Global South are learning from the abandonment by the entire West of the principles of international law, we shall see in the decades to come."

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Why do drivers' licences have a sex/gender code on them anyway? Age, name, addess, licence type. - yes. But sex/gender is irrelevant to entitlement to drive.

Warning via Soft Machine 1968:

It begins with a blessing, it ends with a curse
Making life easy, by making it worse

Violette Morris (1893–1944) Part II: performer, chauffeur, black-marketer. Morris at Le Monocle Continued from Part I . In the 1931 census, Morris gave her name as Paule. At that time she employed a maid and t...

Erlick's article, otherwise good, does have a serious calumny against trans-man-sports star Violette Morris, who was not, as claimed, a Nazi Spy.
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Jill Biden’s ex-husband charged with murder in death of his current wife | CNN The ex-husband of former first lady Dr. Jill Biden has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of his current wife, authorities said Tuesday.

Another example of a cis woman's original (dead?) name being kept hidden. Stevenson was not married to anyone called Biden.

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Brigid was a goddess before deing demoted to a mere saint.

Now, we belong: Uniform opens doors to acceptance for transgenders in Hyderabad | Hyderabad News - The Times of India Hyderabad: From seeking alms at traffic signals to manning traffic at the same intersections, life has come a full circle for Swathi, Bhanupriya and T.

Trans women working for the city in Hyderabad

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‘She narrowly escaped three bullets’: Pakistan’s trans community shaken by attacks and killings A wave of violence has left transgender people afraid to go out, as experts say the global rise of far-right ideology is fuelling transphobia

The situation for trans women in Pakistan. "55 killings in Sindh province between 2022 and September 2025, including 17 in Karachi".
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‘I was afraid for my life’: the transgender refugees fleeing Trump’s America Fear, abuse and eroding rights for trans people have created a hostile environment in the US – can they claim asylum in the Netherlands?

35+ US trans asylum seekers in the Netherlands.
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It was. 6 Counties still are.

It should be England, not UK, as Wales, Scotland and Ireland were colonies.

Venezuela and Truth - Craig Murray The mainstream media covered Venezuela non-stop yesterday. They many times mentioned Delcy Rodríguez, Vice President, because Trump stated she is now in charge. They never mentioned that 2026 marks th...

Hugo Chavez reduced extreme poverty by over 70%, ...halved unemployment, quadrupled the number receiving a state pension and achieved 100% literacy. Chavez took Venezuela from the most unequal society for wealth distribution in Latin America to the most equal.

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When Venezuela's President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM It was 2002 when Delcy Rodriguez, sworn in today as President of Venezuela, came to my apartment in London well after midnight to tell me, a BBC television reporter, that the US was planning to kidnap...

Greg Palast on Venezuela:

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A scurrilous and distorting posting that draws upon my work to reach a conclusion that I certainly do not agree with.

It misrepresents and distorts trans history as "undigested misogyny, entitlement and an enduring susceptibility to distinctly bizarre ideas".

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A review of James I. Martin’s Sexual and Gender Minority History: A Counter-Narrative. Oxford University Press, 2025. This is a LGBT+ history book. However I will be reviewing mainly the trans elements. Despite the title, this book is a history of LGBT in t...

I was sufficiently annoyed by Martin's book that I reviewed it.

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It is the nature of languages that adjectives become nouns become verbs etc etc. And vice versa.

Academia says that my close reading of Benjamin's The Transsexual Phenomenon in in their top 2%.

Yet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tra... does not even mention me or the issues that I documented within the book.

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two of my shelves

A reminder of the various bibliographies that I have published, including a yearly round-up of books for each year all the way back to 2007 and up to 2025.

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Was Hermann Göring a transvestite? This article is about the Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftwaffe, who ranked second only to Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. Those interested ...

In 2009 I discussed Hermann Goring amd concluded that he was not trans, but a homovestite. 16 years later historian Mark Felton has arrived at the same conclusion.

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Oops. Of course I meant 1965-73!

Carolyn Mercer (1947 - ) headteacher Mercer was raised by working-class parents in Preston , Lancashire, and left school at 16 with minimal qualifications to work for a plaster...

The BBC article features Carolyn Mercer who bacame a lauded head teacher.

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LGBT survivors tell of 'barbaric' NHS electric shock therapy More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks in NHS hospitals, the BBC discovers.

Interviews with two survivors, one gay, one trans, of NHS electroshock therapy 2065-73.
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