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Trans people affirmed their gender without medical help in medieval Europe − history shows how identity transcends medicine and law

Restrictions on medical care for transgender youth assume that without the ability to medically transition, trans people will vanish.

The Conversation · Feb 18, 2025

Medieval Women: In Their Own Words at the British Library is unmissable

The British Library’s breathtaking new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, brings to life the experiences, stories and voices of women from the distant past.

The Conversation · Oct 29, 2024

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Rapture’s Road by Seán Hewitt; God Complex by Rachael Allen; How Fire Descends by Serhiy Zhadan; The Many Hundreds of the Scent by Shane McCrae; Eleanor Among the Saints by Rachel Mann

The Guardian - UK · Jan 5, 2024