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  1. Transgender Woman found Dead in Male Prison

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item It seems the British legal system while on one hand protective of transgender people shoots itself in the foot by two recent cases of people who've lived their entire adult lives as female ...

    - 2015/11/21 - 5:14pm - 6 comments

  2. Transgender Officer in the British Army on BBC

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item Pity about the voice, but according to the blurb Cpt Hannah Winterbourne is the highest ranking, serving officer in the British Army who just happens to be transgender. http://www.bbc.co.uk/new ...

    - 2015/12/04 - 4:06pm - 7 comments

  3. From the Guardian

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item Bettina Rheims best photograph of a transgender sex worker from the 1980s in Paris. Quite an interesting piece especially as it suggests that most of them are now probably dead, presumably from ...

    - 2015/12/12 - 11:00am - 18 comments

  4. Holly Woodlawn, star of Warhol's films dies.

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item Holly Woodlawn has died aged 69. She was the subject of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wildside. I recall seeing her years ago in one of his films and can't say I remember much about it, but ...

    - 2015/12/15 - 2:45am - 1 comment

  5. Duh!

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item There is no cure for stupidity, how do these people manage to reach maturity? http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-town-rejects-solar-pa... It reminds me of the woman who wrote to a paper com ...

    - 2015/12/14 - 10:59am - 25 comments

  6. Photos of UK armed services trans veterans

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item From the Guardian, some have happier stories to tell than others. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/dec/15/... ...

    - 2015/12/19 - 9:56am - 1 comment

  7. Transgender actor up for Oscar nomination

    Author:  Angharad Angharad's blog Blog About:  News Item Mya Taylor, star of the iPhone shot movie Tangerine is being promoted as a potential Oscar nominee. http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/dec/21/mya-taylor-tra... 2015 certainly seems to have ...

    - 2015/12/23 - 4:06pm - 3 comments

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

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