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Paula Griffin
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No longer afraid to be myself. Goalkeeper for Clapton CFC, Goal Diggers, Peckham Town Women and anyone else who’ll have me! Living beyond cancer, with a stoma and with CKD - massive emphasis on the word “Living”
Watched “A Real Pain” twice and thought it might be easier on second viewing but it doesn’t. Kieran Culkin’s performance is up there with the best this year but it’s the simplify of the film that resonantes. The scenes at Majdanek hit hard reawakening the sights & even smells of that place.
January 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Most inappropriate Christmas present ever. I was 14 years old when my uncle & aunt sent me this. Given my sisters were already convinced I was either gay or “wanted to be a woman”, unsurprisingly 45 years later I actually still have the almost totally unused bottle somewhere.
December 25, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Just completed my application for a London 60+ travel card. Yes, in precisely 14 days I will be the same age as Victor Meldrew when One Foot in the Grave began!! Really???
December 24, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Might be fresh off the football field & plastered in mud but #Nyckel knows who I am ❤️
📸 Vic Lentaigne
December 7, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Visibility matters. Genuinely moved to see these affirming portraits taken as part of a series celebrating queer bodies in sport & raising funds for Mermaids. A reminder that being #transgender should never stop you doing the things you love with the people you love.
December 7, 2024 at 10:19 AM
#Transgender women should never be defined by the clothes we wear but by the people we are. Might be in my football kit but that doesn’t stop me being a proud defiant woman. Thanks to Maisy Banks for this stunning portrait 🥹
December 5, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Looks like moaning about the Trafalgar Square tree is becoming a new English Christmas tradition
December 5, 2024 at 12:46 PM
A #transgender woman played soccer with her friends yesterday. Unsurprisingly women’s sports wasn’t destroyed.
December 1, 2024 at 7:32 AM
What’s your sign?
November 28, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Been there… well one of them anyway as there are a lot of Twatts around.
November 28, 2024 at 3:22 PM
What was the 1st album you bought with your own money?

Apart a few “liberated” from Woolworths along with the Pic’n’Mix, it to be this. Not only did I fall in love with the music but the album design was as messed up as my 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ mind.
November 28, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Always find it tough looking at this photo, taken by the amazing Serena Brown while filming an advert for women’s football. Early in my transition, less than 12 months but looked so much like my late mother it was uncanny. And a little scary. #transgender
November 28, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Saw plane from below
November 26, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Windy enough at #HackneyMarshes to blow Dorothy’s house right down the pitch but despite conditions great performance from @claptoncfc.co.uk WRT as we maintained our 100% record in the Sue Sharples Cup group stage. Clean sheet too as we won 5-0 vs CB Hounslow & Abbotts Reserves #WomensFootball
November 25, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Must have let a herd of black cats loose in a mirror & ladder factory given that #Evri have managed to lose four of the last seven deliveries sent through them.
November 19, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Little reminder that trans women are welcomed in women’s sports. Played soccer alongside other women for 3 years & the only transphobia I’ve experienced has come from males. Unbelievably some of that came from coaches at one club I play for. They’re no longer there, I’m still playing for that club.
November 17, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Let's see all your #Blue-sky photos.
Machu Picchu (2022). Just completed Salkantay Trail. 😮‍💨
November 15, 2024 at 11:01 AM