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  1. How not to do transition?

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item From the Daily Mirror a story from Italy about a transgender woman who has spent over fifty thousand pounds on plastic surgery and looks rather sad to my thinking, especially the lip implants w ...

    - 2016/01/11 - 11:47pm - 14 comments

  2. Alan Rickman died today.

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item One of the best British actors has lost his fight with cancer aged 69. He got a BAFTA for his Sheriff of Nottingham against Kevin Costner's Robin Hood, where acted the American off the scr ...

    - 2016/01/17 - 5:35pm - 16 comments

  3. Clarkson shows what a moron he is

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item He wrote a disparaging piece in the Sunday Times (Murdoch's flagship) about transgender people which Stonewall are making a meal of. Personally, I think I'd rather listen to my cat sq ...

    - 2016/01/25 - 4:44pm - 5 comments

  4. Google answers the 'Who am I?' question.

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item A bit sort of nebulous, but then so is the question and the concept of identity. One might ask, is the silly answer to a silly question, not sure but as someone who has reinvented their identit ...

    - 2016/03/04 - 9:39pm - 3 comments

  5. Bruce Springsteen cancels show

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item It seems the Boss is backing the campaign to overturn the ridiculous law passed in North Carolina about public toilets and biological sex- didn't know toilets had a biological sex- says a ...

    - 2016/04/11 - 5:48pm - 13 comments

  6. Germaine Greer

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item From the Guardian, a chance to listen to Greer digging herself into a hole. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/12/germaine-greer-... ...

    - 2016/04/14 - 10:39am - 14 comments

  7. Polite drag queen is nemesis of judge in Alabama

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item From the Guardian, the tale of how Ambrosia Starling caused suspension of Alabama's chief (and bigoted) judge over his refusal to allow gay marriage in the state. http://www.theguardian.co ...

    - 2016/05/23 - 4:38pm - 2 comments

  8. From the Guardian- Getting to know my father, the woman.

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item An extract from a new book, not quite sure what I thought about her father from the portrait painted, but then people who survived the Second World War in eastern Europe dealt with some terribl ...

    - 2016/06/11 - 10:25am - 2 comments

  9. Whooohoo! Wales top group in France

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item I'm not a soccer fan but Wales have managed to beat Russia 3-0 in the Euro 2016 championship and thus top the group ahead of England and Slovakia. Seeing as they haven't qualified for ...

    - 2016/06/26 - 12:21am - 7 comments

  10. The underdogs are in the Semi-finals

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item Wales, that mythical country west of England have just beaten Belgium 3-1 in the European Championships to pass through to the semi finals. As they weren't expected to qualify, I'm ra ...

    - 2016/07/07 - 5:02pm - 13 comments

  11. Rise in transgender children has effect upon schools.

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item Article from The Guardian (where else) about the struggle some parents face and the triumph of others with transgender children. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/12/rise-in-tran... ...

    - 2016/07/12 - 7:06pm - 1 comment

  12. More on 'Transgender identity should not be diagnosed as mental disorder'.

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item From the Grauniad quite a well written or reported item. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/28/transgender-... ...

    - 2016/08/01 - 7:07am - 1 comment

  13. Hari Nef becomes first transgender woman on cover of Elle

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item https://inews.co.uk/essentials/lifestyle/people/hari-nef-bec... See the article in the i newspaper. They had a nicer photo in the actual paper. ...

    - 2016/08/07 - 12:31am - 2 comments

  14. Transgender woman refused female pension.

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item Interesting article in the Guardian which is about a transgender woman who stayed married and thus never got female legal status and so missed out on the right to a pension. It has been referre ...

    - 2016/08/13 - 7:07pm - 12 comments

  15. Irony in floods

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item From the Huffington Post. I love this story, nothing like a bit of schadenfreude to cheer us all up. http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/evangelist-who-said-natu... What a tit! ...

    - 2016/08/18 - 2:03pm - 4 comments

  16. US first black transwoman model goes back to 1976

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item The story of Tracey Norman who modelled for Clairol hair dye in 1976. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/21/tracey-norma... ...

    - 2016/08/23 - 9:22pm

  17. Murder of trans activist in Turkey.

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item Yet more sad news on the vulnerability of our sisters in other countries. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/23/murder... ...

    - 2016/08/25 - 3:12pm - 7 comments

  18. Alexis Arquette dies

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item Actor and activist Alexis Arquette has died aged 47. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/11/actor-and-activ... ...

    - 2016/09/12 - 6:27pm - 3 comments

  19. Pakistani hijira presses for prosecution of rapist.

    Angharad's blog Author:  Angharad Caution:  CAUTION: Rape / Sexual Assault Blog About:  News Item From the Guardian, an article about the stand taken by a Pakistani transwoman who was raped and who demands the prosecution of the rapist. https://www.t ...

    - 2016/09/13 - 11:14pm - 2 comments

  20. Problems in Canada?

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item An interesting item in the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/canada-gender-... ...

    - 2016/11/22 - 7:48pm - 12 comments

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