LGBTI+
BBC History Revealed magazine, Christmas 2021: ‘Ewan’s Hidden Battle’.
Who’s Offensive Now? Trans law at the time of the Sexual Offences Act
The fiftieth anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised gay men, provided an occasion for an early presentation of the hidden case of Ewan Forbes.
Trans/historical Voices
This piece was commissioned by the journal Child and Adolescent Mental Health and focuses on the horrific case of David Reimer and on the adolescent girl we know only as ‘Agnes’.
Trans People in the New NHS
I include this as a historical document marking a turning point when UK trans community groups made a collaborative statement of the respect and health care they expected from the NHS. I was privileged to coordinate the document and to present it at a conference organised by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
BMJ Unequal Treatment of Trans People
I’m not a great letter-writer but an invitation from the British Medical Journal provided an opportunity to summarise the history and inequality of NHS treatment of trans people.