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Sex can be a challenge for trans people going into physical transition. For many a new world opens up in which there is a lot to explore… sex toys for example!
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?’
Not transitioning
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 […]
Transphobia in Europe
The Netherlands’ pioneer status, which it attained by opening the first transgender clinic in the world in 1975, is now in decline. However, our country is still considered to be trans friendly. In other parts of Europe, transgender people are subjected to restrictions that are inhumane and encourage transphobia.
Life stories of older transgender people
The older generation grew up at a time when little or nothing was known about the subject of ‘being transgender’, so you couldn’t talk about it. Author Eveline van de Putte wrote down the stories of many of them in the book Nieuwe Namen.