Emilia Sidoli

Pleased to announce my article will be being translated into Lithuanian!

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!

Trans-national The decisive sex-change moment in movies, revealing a dramatic transformation, is far from reality. Transgender people face not only long assessment and surgery waiting lists but also bureaucratic hur...

My first piece is up on the nightmares of bureaucracy and healthcare as a trans person caught between countries:

www.eurozine.com/trans-nation...

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.

🧵 We welcome the Opinion of the Advocate General in CJEU saying that EU Member States must allow legal gender recognition!

Read the full joint statement with @ilgaeurope.bsky.social on our website: www.tgeu.org/landmark-opi...

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!

got followed by some pretend Elon Musk account, serves me right for barely posting on this account i guess

I was Hired as an Expert in Transgender History—Then Fired for it My year at Washington & Lee University

I recommend reading my colleague Samantha Rosenthal's account of being fired from her job teaching at Washington & Lee University after administrators acquiesced to a sustained campaign of transphobic and transmisogynistic harassment against her: 70014.substack.com/p/i-was-hire...

a man says " you keep using that word i do not think it means what you think it means . " Alt: Inigo Montoya saying " you keep using that word, i do not think it means what you think it means . "

when cis people use the word 'biological'

getting the sensation I could wear my finger down to the nub if I was going to tap the 'trans women are biological women' sign every time I see something using the latter term this week

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

I keep saying the response to 'but it's just basic biology' transphobia should be to teach about trans people and transition as part of basic biology in schools. It's not difficult to understand and then maybe people, even well-meaning ones, would stop saying such ridiculous ill-informed shit?

Very interestng, also deeply frustrating and provoking article by Emilia Sidoli, @transpadana.bsky.social, about the slings and arrows of navigating an international existence as a trans person.

Since Norway is mentioned, I can confirm that Norway is a strange case

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(+) Slutt for medisinsk behandling av mindreårige med kjønnsinkongruens på helsestasjon i Oslo Som følgje av ein rapport som konkluderer med at HKS si behandling av mindreårige er uforsvarleg, vil helsestasjonen ikkje lenger starta med hormonbehandling for pasientgruppa. PKI seier dei alt får t...

Trans rights news from Norway:

We were preparing for the Pride parade tomorrow as news broke that the only gender affirming clinic in Norway stops all new hormone treatments for trans youth.

The only option left for trans youth is the national clinic, where an est. 78 % face conversion therapy.

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).

Sth I haven't developed so much in this article that someone brought up is how in many countries changing your gender automatically ends your marriage, and if you've got a relationship where one of you is dependent on a spousal visa that can mean you face a choice between your gender and your home

Lots of other trans people have been getting in touch and saying how this chimes with their experiences - I'm glad to be able to give us a voice!

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

one incredibly classy bitch in a beret

just look at this Eurotrash, tanked on Chimay and smoking a Gauloise in Brussels sometime in 2024 in a way she hoped would say 'author photo'

The Spanish introduce an exclamation with an anticipatory inverted ¡; the Germans only reach this level of punctuatory excitement when it comes to a citation „

Trans-national The decisive sex-change moment in movies, revealing a dramatic transformation, is far from reality. Transgender people face not only long assessment and surgery waiting lists but also bureaucratic hur...

My first piece is up on the nightmares of bureaucracy and healthcare as a trans person caught between countries:

www.eurozine.com/trans-nation...