Vic Parsons
Journalist and Writer at Freelance
freelance journalist, currently at @TBIJ work and gossip to vicparsonsfreelance at gmail dot com
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3 weeks ago |
vogue.co.uk | Vic Parsons
For the first time in 15 years, trans people in the UK marked Transgender Day of Visibility under a Labour government on 31 March. Once upon a time, Labour’s win last July would have meant improvements to trans rights, including access to healthcare, housing security and public facilities, and greater inclusion in both schools and workplaces. After all, this is the party that partially decriminalised homosexuality, scrapped Section 28 and paved the way for same-sex marriage.
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2 months ago |
gaytimes.com | Anya Schulman |Megan Wallace |Vic Parsons
When I started writing this column a year ago, I’d never told anyone I loved them. Which was fine for editorial purposes, because this is a sex and dating column. I wanted love from people who kept me at arm’s length. I thought if love was hard won, it would last. That if love was universally acknowledged as rare because it was coming from someone who didn’t offer it readily, that it would be less likely to fade or disappear.
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2 months ago |
cntraveller.com | Vic Parsons
Mexico is an increasingly badly-kept secret among LGBTQ+ travellers. From Mexico City’s leafy and romantic Zona Rosa to the Pacific beach resort of Puerto Vallarta, queer visitors are catered to with bars, clubs, walking tours and even boat rides specially designed for LGBTQ+ people. Beyond these gaybourhoods and gay resorts, queer travellers say that locals are warm and non-judgmental towards tourists of diverse sexual orientations and genders.
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2 months ago |
gaytimes.com | Vic Parsons |Bobby Box |Megan Wallace |Shon Faye
Intimacy Ahead of the release of her memoir ‘Love in Exile’, Shon Faye talks T4T relationships, the universality of heartbreak, and her hopes for her male readers.
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Dec 14, 2024 |
vogue.co.uk | Vic Parsons
On Wednesday, the British government permanently banned the prescription of puberty blockers to transgender young people, claiming the medication is dangerous. It remains legal for children who aren’t trans. This year alone, both the Conservative and Labour governments have used emergency legislation to temporarily ban puberty blockers.
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'Ultimately, children should be free to be themselves no matter whether they go through a puberty that is driven by hormones their own bodies make, or through a puberty driven by hormones they take.' i wrote about Wes Streeting banning puberty blockers for trans kids
Imagining A World In Which Trans Kids Are Free To Be Themselves https://t.co/rR0qqiq95i
one of the only pieces i've seen taking seriously the withdrawal of hormones from trans people by their GPs. nice work from @BillieGJackson
Cases of trans people losing access to their hormone treatment on the NHS (sometimes after years of receiving it) are on the rise https://t.co/0T44ejQ02b
for @gaytimes i spoke to trans people in their 50s, 60s and 70s about ageing: what are they afraid of, and what are they doing to calm those fears? feat. research from @GIRESUK about improving end-of-life care for trans and nonbinary people: https://t.co/AtkMreGg9Q
