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Dec 30, 20224 min read

See You Never, 2022

It’s the end of 2022, which means that Trans_Muted is now almost a year old! As the duo that runs TM (Riccardo and Dorian), we have had...

Dec 8, 20227 min read

The Power of the Doctor

This piece of memoir-like essay is about how the Jodie Whittaker era of Doctor Who helped me come out as trans. I wrote as a way of ...

Where are All the Cis Patients in Gender Identity Clinics?

Dec 4, 202213 min read

Trans Studies

Where are All the Cis Patients in Gender Identity Clinics?

The objective of the trans revolutionary struggle isn’t social tolerance for gender non-normativity, but rather the liberation from gender..

Dec 2, 202210 min read

Trans News

A Chat with Project Tiresias

On the 21st of November, one of Trans_Muted’s editors, Riccardo, had the opportunity to meet and interview Selvaggia (they/them) and...

Nov 26, 202212 min read

Are TERFs Fascists? - Part 1: TERFs, Fascism and Queerphobia

By J. S. Gupta (Twitter: @JSGupta99) [Content warning: discussion of radical transphobia and sexual assault] What is a TERF? A ‘TERF’ is...

Tiresias, Hera, Zeus: a Trans* Philosophical Reading

Nov 17, 202215 min read

Trans Studies

Tiresias, Hera, Zeus: a Trans* Philosophical Reading

Tiresias, the blind prophet of Apollo of the ancient Greek mythological cycle of Oedipus, is regarded as one the first transgender character

Oct 29, 202225 min read

Being LGBTQ+ and at Risk of Suicide, Suicide Ideation, and Self-Harm: A Systematic Review

References Baumeister, R. F., & Leary, M. R. (1995). The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human...

We don’t “look cis”, you cis-look at us!

Oct 1, 20228 min read

Trans Studies

We don’t “look cis”, you cis-look at us!

By Michel (@blu.issima) Content note: vague talk of gender-based violence, transness, transphobia and trauma This article, structured...

Jul 7, 20228 min read

Trans Studies

Surrealism and Beyond Gender

I’ve been wanting to write this for a little while but it is quite a heavy and complex topic so I won’t be diving into too much detail on th

Queer Liberation is Human Liberation: A Breakdown

Jun 23, 202210 min read

Trans Studies

Queer Liberation is Human Liberation: A Breakdown

By J. S. Gupta The slogan of the day is “Trans Rights are Human Rights”. It is a slogan spoken in support of trans liberation and in...

THE POVERTY OF BODIES: Commodities, Fetishism, and Nationalism

Jun 3, 202225 min read

Trans Studies

THE POVERTY OF BODIES: Commodities, Fetishism, and Nationalism

In this essay we will discuss the issue of the body in relation to nationalistic ideology and human rights, with a focus on the US...

Binary Gendered Biology and its Discontents

May 5, 202223 min read

Trans Studies

Binary Gendered Biology and its Discontents

The traditional arguments that transphobes use to justify their beliefs typically find their (apparent) strength through their appeal to...

Questioning the Definition of (Cis/Trans)Gender

May 3, 20223 min read

Trans Studies

Questioning the Definition of (Cis/Trans)Gender

Even though the word ‘trans’ ‘bear[s] a myriad of divergent meanings, for the many people who use them,’[1] transgender studies scholars...

Trans Conversion Therapy in the UK is Everywhere, Hidden in Plain Sight

Apr 1, 20226 min read

Trans News

Trans Conversion Therapy in the UK is Everywhere, Hidden in Plain Sight

The plans to ban conversion therapy towards gay people are once again underway, but transgender people are left to fend for themselves...

Mar 18, 20222 min read

Trans News

Leeds Uni and Transphobia

You may have already heard about how trans rights at the University of Leeds have been called into question, but there are a few things...

The 'Equality' Commission is Transphobic

Jan 27, 20224 min read

Trans News

The 'Equality' Commission is Transphobic

(What a shocker.) Yesterday, the 26th of January 2022, the EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) publicly shared their statement on...

How is Gender Non-Normativity Othered in Medieval Art?

Jan 21, 202217 min read

Trans Studies

How is Gender Non-Normativity Othered in Medieval Art?

In this essay, I will be referencing Marvels of the East, Mappa Mundi, and The Book of John Mandeville as examples of how non-normative gend

How do Foucault's Lectures on Abnormality Further 'Abnormalise' Marin le Marcis or 'Hermaphrodites'?

Jan 20, 202223 min read

Trans Studies

How do Foucault's Lectures on Abnormality Further 'Abnormalise' Marin le Marcis or 'Hermaphrodites'?

Throughout this essay, I will be analysing a lecture of Foucault’s on ‘abnormality’ in reflection of Marin le Marcis. I will attempt to...

Conflating LGBTQIA+ with Trans: TERF Island and Transphobia at UK Universities

Jan 19, 20224 min read

Trans Studies

Conflating LGBTQIA+ with Trans: TERF Island and Transphobia at UK Universities

In case you’re not aware, trans-positive academics and related nerds have dubbed the UK ‘TERF Island’ because of our notoriously...

Protect Trans Rights at the University of Leeds

Jan 17, 20223 min read

Trans News

Protect Trans Rights at the University of Leeds

Donate here Students and staff members at the University of Leeds have been campaigning for years against relentless transphobic actions...

Jan 17, 20224 min read

Trans Studies

Reading List for (Pseudo)Students

Disclaimer: This reading list will be in a state of constant change, much like ourselves (and my gender lol). Films (Films with an...

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A Transgender Analysis of Mario Mieli's Towards a Gay Communism