if you'd like to learn more about the travails of being trans and foreign, i can highly recommend this lovely article. the case of "Anna" here is eerily similar to my own!

3/ In a major development, the Advocate General stated that under EU law provisions on freedom of movement and fundamental right to private and family life, Member States have an obligation to legally recognise the lived gender of their nationals.

2/ The case was brought forward by a Bulgarian trans woman currently living in Italy.

Her requests to legally amend her gender marker and name on her Bulgarian documents were repeatedly denied by Bulgarian courts.

anyway in addition to the other stuff in my life, of which there's been a whole lot recently tbf, I've been writing bits and bobs: scraps of fiction, and even some poetry. You might even hear about some of it eventually, who knows, once it takes more form!

when cis people use the word 'biological'

It's pretty simple and beautiful when you get down to it, all part of the amazing tapestries that make us human, everyone should be educated about it as much as they are about where babies come from

As it is now, unless you've transitioned or know intimately someone who has you probably have next to zero clue how a transition actually occurs and this is the backdrop for this so-called 'debate' about trans people

We were lucky this didn't have any knock-on effects for my (British) wife's ability to remain with me in the EU, in part since she's not on a spousal visa. But if you live in one of the many countries that don't allow gay marriage, it's another added headache and unpleasant consequence

Before I transitioned, I married a woman in the UK, and although same-sex marriage is legal there and Austria, it isn't in Italy, so technically we were divorced when I transitioned (although as Italy does allow same-sex partnerships, the court allowed us to enter into one with immediate effect).

Since I was 25 I've been with a partner who can't abide smoking so I've been saved - aside from the occasional trip away and want to have an excuse to talk to people outside bars (and look chic)

have to admit it, I like Marlboros better but they don't make me feel as chic

thank you, there is nothing suspect about your endorsement