Trans People

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Features

‘Hundreds of paper cuts’: The mounting struggles of being trans in Bristol

With long waiting lists for treatment, negative media coverage and rising transphobia, everyday life is becoming harder for Bristol’s trans community

‘I don’t want to use the trans loos’

Parenting while Trans: Jacob’s story

Struggle for trans health equality

‘She was just left to it’: bereaved mother slams mental health care before death of her trans daughter

Family of Alexandra Greenway, who died in 2019, say she was let down by unfit and under-pressure NHS services, and by a ‘trans-blind’ approach that leaves people’s needs unmet.

Struggle for trans health equality

Writing on the wall: why trans and nonbinary people in Bristol are speaking out

Coping with Covid

Covid-19 brings difficult times for Trans people in Bristol as government expected to ditch reforms

The Bristol activist and portraits of invisible Britain, hope and resilience

A new book of untold stories from people left behind by media narratives and government policy.

Pride against all odds

A culture of disbelief towards LGBT asylum seekers means the safety and acceptance provided by support groups like Bristol Pride Without Borders is vital.

Our 2016 favourites: Cable voices

A couple of the most interesting voices that the Cable has published in 2016.

“It’s difficult to exist outside the gender binary”

A non-binary perspective on the south-west’s first ever Trans Pride event.

“Expect prejudice, but never accept it”

The landscape is changing for Bristol’s LGBT+ kids, but they need support

‘We’re just as human as you’: one woman’s experience of being transgender and homeless

Bristol’s housing crisis means outreach services struggle to provide enough emergency accommodation, and homeless people scrape by on the streets.