Members Opinions and Stories
Please note the views of our members are not necessarily representative of TACC.
TACC publishes opinions and short stories by our member to give them a voice in a world where there voices are all to often suppressed.
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The Real Panic Over Trans Youth? They Can’t Tell Who We Are
You’ve probably noticed how obsessively they talk about trans youth — not with compassion, not with any real understanding, but with that faux-concern tone, as if they’re the last line of defence against ‘irreversible damage’. Fertility, brain development, and future regret. All the buzzwords. All designed to sound medical, moral, and necessary. We’ve heard it…
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What is gender conformity anyway?
Let’s be real, gender conformity is just patriarchy’s dress code. It’s the unspoken rulebook we’re all handed at birth, stuffed with commandments about how to perform “man” or “woman” correctly, as if humanity came with a binary instruction manual. This isn’t just social etiquette. It’s a ritual. A religion. People follow it like it’s gospel,…
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Shattering the Shell: My Journey to Authenticity
Living My Truth, No Matter What They Say Growing up in a big city in the ’80s and ’90s, bigotry wasn’t just tolerated—it was practically a national pastime. Homophobic and transphobic slurs flew around like seagulls at a seaside chippy, casually lobbed by adults and kids alike at the mere whiff of non-conformity. Step even…
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Persistent Affirmation
By Jenna Bowyer The words “respect” and “dignity” have, this past week especially, been used in place of positive avowal by those who’re actively removing our hard-fought rights, turning our lives upside-down, politely. In place of affirmation (trans women are women, trans men are men, non-binary people exist and are valid), we receive hollow words…
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The Legal Dodge: Keir Starmer, the EHRC, and a Masterclass in Spinelessness
It’s almost poetic. Keir Starmer, former human rights advisor, current Labour leader, Prime Minister, and part-time fence-sitter, has finally mastered the ancient political art of saying everything while meaning nothing. This week, in the fallout from the UK Supreme Court’s chilling ruling on sex-based rights, Starmer dipped his toe in the toxic puddle of ‘gender…
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Coming Out Isn’t a Choice — It’s Survival
The idea that being transgender is some kind of casual lifestyle choice — like picking a new pair of jeans — is a masterclass in ignorance. It’s usually floated by people who’ve never had to spend even five minutes questioning their identity or fearing for their safety over it. For most of us trans folk,…