What it feels like to have become a hate figure in the uk
A powerful personal account of the impact of the recent Supreme Court ruling on transgender rights
Read moreDetailsZoe is a retired BBC broadcast journalist who used to be based in the North West working first in local radio and then Radio 4. She now lives in the Forest of Dean. She was a founder of a local transgender and gender non-conforming support group.
An earlier career in accountancy led her to live in Peru, the USA, and the Netherlands.
In Bristol, and then later in the Forest of Dean, Zoe was a leading figure in the campaign to stop Brexit.
A powerful personal account of the impact of the recent Supreme Court ruling on transgender rights
Read moreDetailsIt’s no longer a question of right and left, but a matter of right and wrong
Read moreDetailsWe may have hoped a Labour government would be an ally to trans people, but the evidence points elsewhere
Read moreDetailsThere has been an attack on trans people in the UK. While these attackers want us to think support for...
Read moreDetailsHere we are with weeks left before the end of negotiations of some kind of trade agreement with the EU...
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