I met with the delightful Shea in Rochester, and over tea and cake, we discussed recent events affecting trans people in the UK. As one of the first authors in the UK to publish a book about trans people in 2017, I am no stranger to trans issues. Since then, much...
The 2021 census (excluding Scotland) showed that 262,000 (0.5%) of the population declared their gender identity different to their birth gender. The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights estimates that at least one out of every fifteen people in Europe has a gender...
A Recent Podcast with Asrar Rashid on Islam & Homosexuality - please follow this LINK or copy and paste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpKBRIUXDGs Declan Henry is a creative non-fiction writer and comes from a distinguished academic background. He studied at two...
Viktor was born in 1996 in Moldova, where being gay is still controversial, taboo, and unacceptable. Moldova is an ex-communist country with traditional views about family, sexuality, and gender. Being gay is something to be ashamed of, and gay people often fear...
The room was dark. I could still hear him breathing. I was sitting in an armchair at the bottom of the bed, trying my best to remain awake, but eventually, I succumbed to exhaustion and fell asleep. For the three previous nights, I had slept on a mattress at the end...
‘Trans Voices – Becoming Who You Are’ by Declan Henry: Q&A – Declan Henry, author of Trans Voices with Fiona Audley Managing Editor at The Irish Post newspaper Bronze Winner for the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the category of Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans...
Up until 2015, I’d never met a transgender person. Most of my gay friends hadn’t either, except for some who encountered drag artists in pubs. I'm unsure whether this is indicative of the larger gay community but if so, maybe it’s because whilst the gay and trans...
As a gay man, I became interested in transgender issues for two reasons. The first was that before I started researching the subject I did not know any trans person and the second was that I wanted to discover the real reasons why people are dissatisfied with their...
