Today is – if I am not mistaken – the first time I am wearing the dress that I was wearing when I got abused by a transphobe¹ shortly after the UK supreme court’s decision in April ’25 to sanction the othering #transgender people.

I tell myself I am wearing it as an act of defiance in the face of the #EHRC guidance from last week. But I don’t feel very defiant. I feel scared, and vulnerable, and hopeless…

#TransRights #TransgenderUK

1: https://blog.achintyarao.in/post/five-letter-words/

A tale of two five-letter words

In my time living in Europe, I have experienced a few (and thankfully, only a few) incidents of racism. So I am relatively used to encountering everything from unkindness to hostility and violence from strangers.

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