Since I was about eight, I have been regularly mistaken for a boy or man, writes Felicity Hawksley. The way I am is no statement, no protest, no challenge
Re your article (‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse after UK’s supreme court ruling, 12 August), while it is possible that these women’s experiences are as a result of the recent supreme court ruling, this has been happening to me and others I know for a long time. A very long time.
My experience as a gender non-conforming 37-year-old woman is that, since I was about eight, I have been regularly mistaken for a boy or man, and that a few times a year, these incidents are deeply embarrassing to me or involve someone being openly hostile. Continue reading…
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