It’s now almost a year after my application was submitted to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. My legal team and I still wait to hear whether the Court has accepted this important case against the UK over successive governments’ failure to issue non gender-specific X PASSPORTS [forcing people to declare an inappropriate gender otherwise being unable to obtain a passport].

Issuance of X PASSPORTS is a policy matter that requires no legislative change and would have been straightforward to implement, as has been done in a growing number of progressive countries around the world.

If Strasbourg accepts my application, I will probably be in my 70s before a final outcome is reached. This, after several years of litigation in the UK and decades prior to that trying to navigate a gendered societal structure that appears designed to exclude me.

I’ve begun writing opinion articles on Substack because a seemingly endless fight for justice in the UK left me with no time/capacity to do anything else until now and I feel a desperate need to do something other than fight for legitimate identity that most people can take for granted. While I do sometimes cover trans issues on The View From Outside, I prefer to concentrate my focus on other issues because [despite how it might appear] I am not wholly one-dimensional and, as those who know me are aware, I can be passionate and vocal whenever something needs to be said. One issue that continues to haunt me is Brexit, its real purpose [as opposed to the lies that led to it] and its devastating effects.

I invite you to read my latest piece and subscribe to read more of my written work separate to my ongoing campaign for legal recognition.