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YouTube video by Transmuted A/S/L - Chatting with Jeanne Thornton about Trans Time, Community, and Her New Book

It was such a privilege to have our first interview with THE Jeanne Thornton, author of 'A/S/L'!

You can watch the full natter on our YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuJp...

👮‍♀️ Following in the footsteps of the British Transport Police and England's police federation, Scotland's police will now search people based on their sex assigned at birth 🧵 👇

Read the full review on our site, or in Transmuted issue 11. www.transmuted.co.uk/articles Support our work at patreon.com/transmuted A/S/L, 2024, by Jeanne Thornton Published by Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks. www.deadinkbooks.com Review by Fili Gena @filiphss Chris Cambell @chriscambell Dorian Rose @generefuccere

Today, the difference is, people choose bigotry in spite of access to relevant information rather than due to a lack of it."

Review by Fili Gena, Chris Cambell, and Dorian Rose @generefuccere.bsky.social

Book cover designed by Emma Ewbank

"It’s hard to get past the perfect pairing of the subject of transness as explored through the setting of American gaming and internet culture in the 90s. [...] People believed whatever they wanted to and didn’t worry about the mess it made...

The cover of A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton. Designed by Emma Ewbank. It has the title, and the author, in bold writing: black then off-white. Along the bottom right-hand side there is a small, slightly covered image of a white person in a little make-up and a red turtleneck. They are crowded by pixilated pinks, blues, purples, yellows and - all the colours - shifting into the overall cover of the book. They have their eyes closed, looking peaceful.

“A lot of people in the [video gaming] community are trans [...] the way that kind of online upbringing where everybody kind of starts online, where you’re from, what your background is, these things matter in some ways, but they’re obscured in many more ways.” Jeanne Thornton, author of A/S/L, in her interview with Transmuted. The complexities of queer romance are explored with the brilliance of genuine human experience [...] homo-trans-phobia, patriarchy, classism; the seemingly infinite issue of forming and maintaining personal boundaries. All with a respectful author-reader dialogue, showcasing Jeanne Thornton’s profound ability to reflect upon ‘what it is to be human’ - or more specifically... ‘what it is to be queer’.

It’s hard to get past the perfect pairing of the subject of transness as explored through the setting of American gaming and internet culture in the 90s. [...] People believed whatever they wanted to and didn’t worry about the mess it made. Today, the difference is, people choose bigotry in spite of access to relevant information rather than due to a lack of it. I walked away from this book wishing I could load my progress from an earlier save. That I could go back with what I know now and be the person I always hoped would rescue me. But I can’t. Instead, I will continue. I will be me, imperfect and failing in more ways than I have yet realised... Not a hero, but not hiding either.

I did not grow up playing video games, and I was not even born when the story takes place, therefore I cannot understand many of the references of the book. It did however trigger some memories for me... “This small room, this TV laughing through the wall, this tiredness. One day, false things will fall away.” - A/S/L, Jeanne Thornton. Jeanne Thornton’s narration of trans experience as a process of active redefinition of what is possible and what counts as real. Thornton [...] blesses us with a nuanced commentary of self-acceptance as a nonlinear process that can be aided as well as hindered by community. Further down the plot, the multi-character, multi-context structure of the book isn’t a mere stylistic choice: it reflects Thornton’s belief that trans experience is inherently plural and choral. ... it prompts us to look at the complexities of community-building instead of romanticising it.

A Trans-Collective Review of 'A/S/L' by Jeanne Thornton featured in Transmuted issue 11!

Read the full review on our site - go to the link in our bio, or to www.transmuted.co.uk/articles

You can grab a copy at deadinkbooks.com/product/a-s-l/

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We’re proud to announce open pre-orders of Transmuted's summer 2025 issue! You can grab a copy through the link in our bio, or go to www dot transmuted dot co dot uk forward slash shop ! A bold new edition, a 104 page anthology of poems, artworks, comics, stories, articles and essays, which are a form of trans-national celebration in times of difficulty. This issue features 11 artists, 4 comics, 1 zine, 9 poets, 11 short stories, monologues & letters, 5 essays and articles, and 2 reviews - plus more art and content for your perusal... Featuring the legends: Mx Adam Khan Amelia Pearson April - @aprilthefrogcomics Aurora Hatchel Billy Branca Binki Bryony May - @bryonymayart Chris Cambell Daniel - @_danny.artss_ Dorian Rose - @generefuccere Edie barnabas Eglantine VItava Ela Clotilde Falone - @ilvinodegliamanti_ Elwyn V J Roth - @evjroth Emory Southwick - @emoryartmodel ez - @thequeerchaos Fili Gena Frau Diamanda - @frau.diamanda2 Gideon Josie Bennet - @wolfiebob Heather Moss - @heather_moss_ Hḗrā Santos - @hera.s.santos J S Gupta Johannes T Evans - @johannestevans Kari Not Sorry t4tbutch - @t4tbutch Leo Telford Liam Crooks - @human._.fly Lilas Elliot Luke W Henderson - @lukewhendersonm MaddieX Marius Wallbaum - @mariustofu Matthew Ward Max Mailund Plantskid - @plantskid mk zariel Osha Brown-Bear - @oshabrownbear Rebys J Hynes - @rebysjhynes Rose Priestley Sabrina Wade - @pythialouise Silas A massive thank you to Fili Gena, Finn Evans, J S Gupta, Chris Cambell, Anna Rose James, Rebys J Hynes, and all of our fantastic supporters for helping us keep Transmuted going!

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We’re proud to announce open pre-orders of Transmuted's summer 2025 issue!

You can grab a copy through the link in our bio, or go to www.transmuted.co.uk/shop x

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Thank you so much for contributing to our biggest issue yet! It was a joy to work with you & your prose on this!

EHRC backs down on single-sex toilets | Good Law Project The EHRC’s interim update unleashed chaos after the Supreme Court’s transphobic decision. But now the commission says it was only ‘some observations’ and rows back on its demand for single-sex toilets...

The EHRC's lawyers have conceded its position on single sex toilets is wrong. goodlaw.social/z87e

preorders may be more important than you think... We really appreciate not just the volunteering and contributions of the people in our journals, but also the people who interact with our and help us keep going, growing, and building something new! Pre-ordering helps us make sure that we recuperate print costs as soon as we can as well as in loads of other ways from planning to workloads...

Transmuted Issue 11 Preorders now available at transmuted.co.uk/shop. Issue eleven is a 104 page anthology of poems, artworks, comics, stories, articles and essays, all celebrating trans-national community in our times of difficulty.

Transmuted Preorders Open

Featuring over forty fantastic contributors.

Breaking my hiatus briefly to let you all know pre-orders are open for @transmuted.bsky.social Issue 11!

My poem "The They" is among the many talented entries 😍

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This is part of our initiative to disseminate knowledge, materials, and solidarity amongst non-cisgender & intersectional communities!

Thanks to recent financial support from LGBT Consortium and some lovely individuals x

get yer free posters, stickers & flyers. Ee by gum! We designed and printed a bunch of them because why not? We are Transmuted by the way.

Where? Check out the link in our bio, scan the QR code in the post, or send an email to contact us at transmuted dot co dot uk. What? This is part of our initiative to disseminate trans posters, graphics, and free print materials to promote trans liveabilities and issues (free shipping to UK addresses only). If you run trans events, are going to be campaigning, hosting a stall at a local pride, want to give your group members some freebies, or just want to spruce up your space with some trans artworks... Whatever it is, fill out our form or send us an email to request stock.

How we fund this. We have a limited amount of prints, funded by LGBT Consortium’s Equity Fund and individual donations - if you would like to support further designs and prints, please consider donating (via our website or bio)! How you / your organisation uses these posters, flyers, and stickers is entirely up to you - but please do not sell these products without our express permission. *Folks outside the UK will have to pay shipping as it is outside of our budget (eek)! More info is available on the form!

Why? One of the ways we work for non-cisgender communities is by making as much artwork & expending as much cultural freedom as we can muster - so creating free posters & resources is our mission! Each of our journals is full of artwork created by Transmuted’s artist, as well as so much of the work that we do outside of that... So why not make it a big part of our trans rights support?

We are giving out free posters, leaflets, and stickers to anyone helping our communities fight for trans rights!

If you'd like some material to give out at events, prides, while campaigning, to your group members, and so on - please check out the form here: forms.gle/QFAPHpsmtPbJ...

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Support the free distribution of information sharing that enables trans healthcare to continue beyond the bounds of the government’s inhumane restrictions - DIY/home healthcare. Support the funding of the above through grassroots fundraisers where the money goes directly to the person in need. Mutual aid - think outside the box. Our systems are failing us and we need to look out for each other in new (and old) ways around them. Join existing movements and avoid duplication of labour where possible - this is how we can be more effective and collectively achieve equal rights for trans people in the UK.

Resources card, including TransActual, GLAAD, and Trans Kids Deserve Better.

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This guidance proposes no alternatives for trans people to access, and further pressures trans people to spend unquantified amounts of their finances on healthcare that is made precarious through the visible transphobia of the UK. The guidance is yet another attack, wholly unmotivated by care, wherein we see no alternative proposed. Where does this leave trans people? Unsupported, adrift, isolated, ostracised, stigmatised. Recent actions against trans healthcare have done, and will continue to do, little but worsen the dismal statistics of harm, poverty, and safety of trans people in the UK. The rhetoric of ‘wanting to improve care and access’ is blatantly falsified by reality; co-opted in order to confuse those in vulnerable and precarious situations, to promote the idea that transitioning is somehow dangerous or ‘abnormal’.

We must highlight the rise of institutional transphobia in the UK, and hold those in power to account, passionately and consistently. The government exists to serve the people. We need to tell them this is not what we want. This intimidating guidance signifies transgender people as a ‘test of what people will tolerate in laws over bodily autonomy’.

What can you do? Vote in your local elections* on Thursday 1 May 2025 - do your homework on the candidates in your area and what they stand for - not just now, during election campaigns when they’re trying to win your trust, but historically - what have they supported and opposed, on record, when human rights have been brought up for debate? Who has shown a solid track record of working actively for trans rights? Write to your MP - express in your own words the reasons you cannot accept the leaked guidance. Be sincere and honest, take the time to make it unique rather than using a template - be yourself. Make it clear to your MP that their job is to oppose this motion strongly and in no uncertain terms, and that if they neglect to do so, they are failing their constituents.

Speak to your friends and family about the guidance - be safe and mindful of your circumstances, utilise your privileges. Word of mouth and conversation with loved ones has more of an impact than you may realise. Behind these public debates and high-level decisions made remotely and out of context by unaffected politicians, there are people who are immediately and devastatingly harmed. This needs to be felt keenly by all and kept present in everyone’s minds. To that effect, Share pertinent trans rights organisations’ posts on social media to show your support and spread awareness. Be mindful and use content warnings where appropriate - some people will be feeling the weight of the decision harder and will need to engage - or not - with informed consent.

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The UK has, for several years, worked against the rights of trans youth to transition, predictably growing to cover ‘trans young adults’ using private healthcare (i.e. getting HRT through a private transgender health service). In December of last year, the NHS placed a blanket ban on trans youth receiving any form of puberty blockers. This year, it seems, the NHS have taken measures to prevent a great percentage of trans ‘young adults’ from receiving potentially life-saving healthcare even through private avenues.

Trans people in the UK have, ramping up over recent years, fought both individually and collectively against GPs and institutions preventing healthcare options by way of: Refusing to give free blood tests that can help prevent serious health complications, Refusing to bridge prescriptions with both private and public healthcare institutions, Refusing medical support for transgender children, Publication of questionable medical reports used to deny trans people healthcare, Proposed funding of detransition services while underfunded transition services provide the exact same procedures.

What does this mean? In general, trans people in the UK already have an exponentially harder time accessing healthcare than non-trans people. This NHS guidance - alongside the historic actions of the NHS and the UK government - brings into question the very foundations of the NHS. Our NHS should focus on the general public health of all in the UK, regardless of non-expert opinions reflected in state-wide institutions, and certainly should not work based upon disproven and/or widely criticised research such as the internationally condemned Cass Review, published in April 2024. No aspect of this guidance, nor in fact any recent action put forward for the NHS in recent years, provides an ounce of the care or attention that gender dysphoria, incongruence and transition requires.

Infographics on the recent UK NHS guidance leak (and general actions taken by UK government, public bodies, & institutions), Transmuted's statement on 12 April 2025. 1/3

@transmuted.bsky.social it's beautiful 💜🏳️‍⚧️

Thank you so much!!

The ad poster for After All. Text reads: A film by Chongyon Liu, starring Chuning Dai and Antonia Sandrock. After All, a film review by Rebys J Hynes. As seen at MINT Chinese Film Festival in Glasgow, Scotland @mintchinesefilmfestival

Some stills from the film. Text reads: There is a ghostly quality to After All. This haunting quality perfectly distils the feeling of unreality that can so often come with grief.

Stills from the film. Text reads: Transness is such a radical act of self-determination, but inevitably in death our image belongs to other people. It's only a passing beat, but it is loaded with so much pain and such deep understanding of its trans subject.

Read Rebys J. Hynes’ review & more on our site www.transmuted.co.uk/articles Rebys J. Hynes @rebysjhynes Letterboxd - HynesJJ Support our work & more film content patreon.com/transmuted MINT Chinese Film Festival @mintchinesefilmfestival After All, 2024 Directed by Chongyan Liu

After All, Film Review by Rebys J. Hynes - screened in Glasgow by MINT Chinese Film Festival

Content note: discussion of suicidality and transphobia.

You can read Rebys' review on our site in full, add to your watchlist and big up queer cinema!

The first issue of Visibility, the RPG Magazine by trans people, has arrived from print!

You can grab a copy from our shop (£6 + optional donation), as well as a free pdf copy too -

All profits will go to trans charities chosen by the Visibility community!

www.transmuted.co.uk/shop

Philadelphia was very good! Now I am en route to Michigan where I will hope to see some of you in Kalamazoo on 4/7 and Ann Arbor 4/8 (both are mini open mics so if you would like to read too please come through/DM!)

Posters & Graphics Archive | Transmuted A page of posters and graphics that you can use to use for your own enjoyment or to promote trans rights.

Hello all,

I have submitted some posters to @transmuted.bsky.social you can check them out here
www.transmuted.co.uk/posters-and-...

They are free to download and print for spreading awareness 🏳️‍⚧️

*Tag me if you use them x

Artists can be credited with their name, pseudonymously or anonymously if they wish -

You can request we take down your work at any time -

This project is for spreading trans-positivity only, not for profit or resale without the permission of the artist. (3/3)

Email us at contactus@transmuted.co.uk with any questions or to submit your poster design!

We will be doing a small print run to disseminate designs in the UK, but your design will be free for trans orgs and individuals to download and print right from our webpage.

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Are you an artist or graphic designer? Do you want to help disseminate pro-trans posters and be added to our online platform?

We are hosting a poster & graphics initiative to spread positivity & awareness of trans health, liveability, and *real* information. (1/3)

This Sunday, we are hosting GossipGrrrl on Trans Art History (online at 6PM London time)!

Grab yer PAYF tickets at www.transmuted.co.uk/events

It is the cover page of visibility magazine, a unicorn fighting a yellow and red hyra-snake thing, in a forest. The title of the magazine is at the top, together with some small text about how it is launching for trans day of visibility, with over 80 pages of poetry, games, short stories, artwork, and comics. There is the text link for the shop, which is www dot transmuted dot co dot uk forward slash shop.

It is a list of contents and a photo of the A4 magazine's printed proof copy. Stuff about how profit goes to charity, it being pay as you feel, and good for nerds like me.

It is a list of contributors with loads of text over an artwork from the magazine. It is pink and purple, showing the Morrigan, a raven-human of mythic prowess, and a woman leaning on her shoulder with adoration.

Hey! Have you heard of Visibility?

On the 31st of March, Trans Day of Visibility, we're proud to bring you a brand new anthology of role-playing games, art, and queer fiction called… Visibility!

Get your copy at www.transmuted.co.uk/shop

Visibility - An RPG Magazine from the Trans Community | Transmuted Celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility in style with the very first issue of Visibility: a Role-Playing Game Magazine created by the trans community! In this maiden volume, you are in for a real t...

Pretty great zine here and also pretty great that all proceeds from this are going to charity! Pretty amazing @transmuted.bsky.social !

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Goose posting only from here on out #t4t #art

Gooseposting continues #t4t #art