There is a particular kind of grief that doesn't get much space in the conversations around trans experience. Not the grief of loss that others can see and name, but something quieter and harder to hold: the grief of wanting something for yourself that you cannot have, or cannot have yet. This is not a grief that comes with condolence cards. There is no ritual for it. And because it sits alongside an identity that is already so often contested and debated, many trans people f

diverse group of people holding hands If you've ever sat in a therapist's room and felt like you had to explain yourself before you could even begin — justify who you are, translate your experience, soften the edges of your identity to make it easier for someone else to hold — you'll know how exhausting that is. And how much it gets in the way of the actual work. Inclusive counselling starts from a different place. It begins with the assumption that you are the expert on your

If you are a trans person in the UK right now, you may be carrying something that is hard to put into words. A heaviness. A sense of the ground having shifted. Perhaps a feeling that a debate about who you are has been happening at full volume in spaces where your voice was barely present. That is not a small thing to live with. And it deserves to be named. What Has Happened On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled unanimously that under the Equality Act 2010, the terms "