Transgender artists in the Netherlands – a podcast
Episode One: Chris Rijksen In this (English) podcast, American queer student Samantha White investigates the experiences of transgender artists in the Netherlands. The […]
Jan Kooijman: “It’s a huge honour that our show is considered important”
The Dutch television program about being transgender ‘Hij is een Zij’ is about to start the fifth season. An interview with presenter Jan Kooijman: ‘I like the documentary type of approach and the long time spent following people, which allows us to make faithful recountances’.
“What are nine months, compared to an entire lifetime?”
Rowan, known from the TLC-series Onze transgender liefde (“Our transgender love”), has postponed his transition to be able to have a child with his (transgender) wife Louisa. In December 2017, he became the proud dad of Mikai and in April he finally started taking testosterone. I interviewed him two months later.
Trans man Bappie: ‘For the first year of our relationship, I showered with a shirt on.’
Trans man Bappie (29) and cis woman Jamilla (26) have been together for seven years. A double interview with a queer couple about the impact of Bappie’s transitioning on their relation.
My own place
A photo series about safe spaces. Photographer Jip: ‘To transgender people, the outside world can feel like a jungle full of uncertainties. Sometimes I experience this strongly. As if I don’t really belong. Fortunately, I know where I can find security and be myself.’
Transitioning together
‘My mother has to be the person who most intensely experienced my transition. She also gained her own personal growth through my transition. …Right mum?’
Souls have no gender
At age eightteen Louis Alves got the “go ahead” to start taking feminising hormones. However, after spending a period in New York, Louis decided not to transition.
10 Reasons to envy trans people
The concept of gender dysphoria influences the image of trans persons. The opposite of dysphoria is euphoria. This concept remains marginalised in public debate about trans people. It’s not even in the Dutch Van Dale dictionary.
Sex worker Aleisha never tells her clients that she’s trans
At age 22 Brasilian Aleisha started transitioning. A year later she was working in prostitution in Rio de Janeiro, not able to find another job. When she left Brasil to start a new life in Europe, sexwork again seemed the only option.
Trans men and pregnancy
At the mention of ‘pregnant trans men’ many people over thirty will think of Thomas Beatie, the American who obtained publicity in 2007 […]