Rebecca Jane Morgan
@rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social
Author of Deviants and Trailblazers (May 2026) and Gender Heretics (2023).
Enquiries: rebecca.m.hickman@gmail.com
I also write about religion in Greenland: https://religioningreenland.com
Enquiries: rebecca.m.hickman@gmail.com
I also write about religion in Greenland: https://religioningreenland.com
I will note explain
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I will note explain
Shadow People unite!
(Sunday Mirror, 14 March 1954.)
(Sunday Mirror, 14 March 1954.)
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Shadow People unite!
(Sunday Mirror, 14 March 1954.)
(Sunday Mirror, 14 March 1954.)
Roman soldier talking to the Disciples after the crucifiction of Jesus, colourised
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Roman soldier talking to the Disciples after the crucifiction of Jesus, colourised
It has been
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hours since the last transphobia incident. Thank you for doing your part!
2̶1̶
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hours since the last transphobia incident. Thank you for doing your part!
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It has been
2̶1̶
0
hours since the last transphobia incident. Thank you for doing your part!
2̶1̶
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hours since the last transphobia incident. Thank you for doing your part!
I love this shot from Brooklands in 1937. The difference in car sizes was bonkers in those days.
October 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I love this shot from Brooklands in 1937. The difference in car sizes was bonkers in those days.
Uhhhhhhhhh...
(The Nelson Lee Library July 1930.)
(The Nelson Lee Library July 1930.)
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Uhhhhhhhhh...
(The Nelson Lee Library July 1930.)
(The Nelson Lee Library July 1930.)
My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!
This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
October 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!
This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
Roberta Cowell explaining how fellow prisoners of war passed the time during WW2. They would shout this at a guard tower and then run away.
September 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Roberta Cowell explaining how fellow prisoners of war passed the time during WW2. They would shout this at a guard tower and then run away.
Found this book in a monastery. No notes
September 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Found this book in a monastery. No notes
In 1971 a man was fined £1 for making a rude gesture at a Salvation Army band at an anti-porn rally.
Thank you for your attention.
Thank you for your attention.
September 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In 1971 a man was fined £1 for making a rude gesture at a Salvation Army band at an anti-porn rally.
Thank you for your attention.
Thank you for your attention.
I'm searching for trans motor racing drivers/riders in history! If you come across any, please do share, especially racers from outside the UK and North America.
I currently know of Roberta Cowell, Michelle Duff, Charlie Martin, Deborah Stokes, Sophie Rebecca, Jerri Bean, and Terri O'Connell.
I currently know of Roberta Cowell, Michelle Duff, Charlie Martin, Deborah Stokes, Sophie Rebecca, Jerri Bean, and Terri O'Connell.
August 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I'm searching for trans motor racing drivers/riders in history! If you come across any, please do share, especially racers from outside the UK and North America.
I currently know of Roberta Cowell, Michelle Duff, Charlie Martin, Deborah Stokes, Sophie Rebecca, Jerri Bean, and Terri O'Connell.
I currently know of Roberta Cowell, Michelle Duff, Charlie Martin, Deborah Stokes, Sophie Rebecca, Jerri Bean, and Terri O'Connell.
Nottingham trans rights protest, 20 April.
There's a long road ahead of us.
There's a long road ahead of us.
April 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Nottingham trans rights protest, 20 April.
There's a long road ahead of us.
There's a long road ahead of us.
Instructions circulated to civil servants stipulated that, as there could be 'tragic results' if the DHSS revealed a trans person's status to employers, staff should refer to them in their 'adopted sex' unless told otherwise (‘Disclosure of information – transsexuals’, Oct 1978, TNA, BN 80/143).
March 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Instructions circulated to civil servants stipulated that, as there could be 'tragic results' if the DHSS revealed a trans person's status to employers, staff should refer to them in their 'adopted sex' unless told otherwise (‘Disclosure of information – transsexuals’, Oct 1978, TNA, BN 80/143).
The notes distributed in the DHSS following an interview with Jones (reproduced in this picture) were dismissive, describing her as suffering from 'a mental conflict' and of being 'prone to obsessions'.
She had apparently extracted similar adjustments from the Ministry of Education in 1959, and ...
She had apparently extracted similar adjustments from the Ministry of Education in 1959, and ...
![Internal notes from an Department of Health and Social Security interview with a trans woman in 1975. The text reads: 'Miss [Jones], like most people with a mental conflict, is obviously prone to obsessions. … First and foremost, she sees herself as a trail-blazer for the handful of people in the world who suffer from her complaint. She claims to have wrung a teacher’s pension out of the then Ministry of Education in 1959 as a result of Parliamentary pressure. … It is difficult to know whether we shall keep her passably sane by giving her the pleasure of combat or whether we shall send her over the edge if we take her on and defeat her. It is a most perplexing affair.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ib5nmevhfhbuszdqxsnbeqr7/bafkreidhe3ejsoibrzc2tmtfvxlomdisu276oqlo5fslnamh53iooxfoai@jpeg)
March 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The notes distributed in the DHSS following an interview with Jones (reproduced in this picture) were dismissive, describing her as suffering from 'a mental conflict' and of being 'prone to obsessions'.
She had apparently extracted similar adjustments from the Ministry of Education in 1959, and ...
She had apparently extracted similar adjustments from the Ministry of Education in 1959, and ...
My next book, a history of trans activism from 1944 to 2023, is coming along nicely! Just finished a new epilogue covering the huge rightward shift in the public conversation on trans issues over the last few years. It's a bit depressing, but UK trans people have overcome similar challenges before.
March 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
My next book, a history of trans activism from 1944 to 2023, is coming along nicely! Just finished a new epilogue covering the huge rightward shift in the public conversation on trans issues over the last few years. It's a bit depressing, but UK trans people have overcome similar challenges before.
Map of signatures for the petition to repeal the Gender Recognition Act by constituency. Scottish anti-trans groups seem to be 'getting out the vote' more effectively (although the total number of signatures is still very low - 13,000).
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
March 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Map of signatures for the petition to repeal the Gender Recognition Act by constituency. Scottish anti-trans groups seem to be 'getting out the vote' more effectively (although the total number of signatures is still very low - 13,000).
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Gamer (noun): A hardworking American.
March 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Gamer (noun): A hardworking American.
Molly is getting so brave
January 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Molly is getting so brave
🎄Happy Christmas, friends! God became flesh and dwelt among us - not to build up treasure in palaces, but to seek out the forgotten; those for whom the word "us" has no meaning. In the coming year, let's be sensitive to those dark places where each of us can be that "us".
December 25, 2024 at 1:43 AM
🎄Happy Christmas, friends! God became flesh and dwelt among us - not to build up treasure in palaces, but to seek out the forgotten; those for whom the word "us" has no meaning. In the coming year, let's be sensitive to those dark places where each of us can be that "us".
Trump's obsession with buying/annexing Greenland is silly, but I always thought this image from 2019 was a banger.
December 23, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Trump's obsession with buying/annexing Greenland is silly, but I always thought this image from 2019 was a banger.
Hello little creature!
December 21, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Hello little creature!
In Oct 1944, British trans man Robert Allen got approval from the Registrar General to have the sex marker on his birth certificate amended. He later rejoiced in his memoir (1954): 'an error that had ... made havoc of my life, was rectified’. Michael Dillon achieved the same thing in April 1944.
December 17, 2024 at 7:00 AM
In Oct 1944, British trans man Robert Allen got approval from the Registrar General to have the sex marker on his birth certificate amended. He later rejoiced in his memoir (1954): 'an error that had ... made havoc of my life, was rectified’. Michael Dillon achieved the same thing in April 1944.
On 1 Aug 1997, Blair's press secretary Alastair Campbell wrote to Home Secretary Jack Straw to warn him against launching a review of the laws around trans people and gender identity. He struck his usual mildly threatening tone.
(TNA, HO 342/439, A. Campbell to J. Straw, 1 August 1997.)
(TNA, HO 342/439, A. Campbell to J. Straw, 1 August 1997.)
December 15, 2024 at 7:00 AM
On 1 Aug 1997, Blair's press secretary Alastair Campbell wrote to Home Secretary Jack Straw to warn him against launching a review of the laws around trans people and gender identity. He struck his usual mildly threatening tone.
(TNA, HO 342/439, A. Campbell to J. Straw, 1 August 1997.)
(TNA, HO 342/439, A. Campbell to J. Straw, 1 August 1997.)
In the 1970s there was only one nationwide UK trans org, the Beaumont Society. In 1979, Hazel, a 'transsexual with innate radical feminist views', sent a letter to the group's newsletter attacking its conservative politics and asking where ‘all the young radical transvestites and transsexuals’ were.
December 13, 2024 at 7:00 AM
In the 1970s there was only one nationwide UK trans org, the Beaumont Society. In 1979, Hazel, a 'transsexual with innate radical feminist views', sent a letter to the group's newsletter attacking its conservative politics and asking where ‘all the young radical transvestites and transsexuals’ were.
I love this creature
December 12, 2024 at 3:38 PM
I love this creature