This article appeared on today's Guardian website and makes worrying and disturbing news.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/26/transphobic-tra...

Sometimes I wonder why I bother. I had an idea for a Christmas story but it had to be written and posted yesterday to be effective. It needed a sixteen year old boy soprano, they're unusual. So it needs a contrivance, there's always the cop out of magic, genital damage pre puberty, AIS or intersex - quite rare, or T-blockers. I opted for the latter, administered by a mother who thought she was doing best for her son. I then have calls of child abuse and for another author to redress the balance.

The BBC are doing a serial of 5x 15 minute episodes about Amy, a girl who's born in the wrong body, and how her parents try and cope with it. Times in the UK Monday to Friday 11.45am repeated in the evening at 7.45pm and then available on the iPlayer site. It is a drama, but sounds quite interesting, hope there aren't too many stereotypes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v2ynx

An interesting article about Tiwonge Chimbalanga a transgender woman from Malawi who now lives in exile in S.Africa.

Those of us in the west don't know how lucky we are.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/nov/27/-sp-transgender-...

Angharad

It would have been Huw's 34th birthday today. Didn't feel much like writing, sorry.

Angharad