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• Alternating Gender Incongruity (AGI) does not exist

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor February 12, 2016
  ALTERNATING GENDER INCONGRUITY (AGI)   In 2012 Gase and Ramachandran published this proposed gender variant. They sent out a survey to those individuals that they could find who expressed 'voluntary' alternation between male and female status. I suggest that any good actor can achieve that in...

• Genderqueer People

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor February 10, 2016
  Joan was confused at Tesco's in Frodsham, early on last wednesday afternoon. In the check-out queue, two ahead of her, was an ectremely attractive and smartly dressed, elegant woman with lovely hair. The small child in front of her nestled up to mother and asked the 'unspoken', but obvious question:...

• The Danish Girl: a personal view

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor January 9, 2016
  On my way to join the farming community's weekly social meeting in the Lord Eldon, last night, I bumped into Dave from Tatton Park, mission bent to visit the 'Tap and Bottle". He reported that his wife and sister were eating and would be at our local cinema at 6pm to watch 'The Danish Girl'. John, i...
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• A definite cure for Gender Dysphoria

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor January 4, 2016
  What wonderful news! One of my very determined scientific-boffin female relatives has uncovered the 'cure', which has been lying 'unloved' on the shelves of 'Herbal remedy' and 'Homeopathic' Dispensaries. We, in the Medical Profession, used to say that these treatments are fine, as long as you don't...

• Lili Elbe, Danish Transgender Pioneer

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor January 4, 2016
  I have yet to watch this film ( eagerly awaited )in oill give my own view in a few days timeur local cinema. But, this comment is a precis of the views of my Transgender sisters in the Groups to which I belong, who have seen it on its first day or two.   Inevitably the new film, starring...
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• A Trans-woman's Pre-christmas Festive thoughts

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor December 23, 2015
  What was assumed, over many years, to be a light joke between the core of the 'Lord Eldon Golfing Club' (men only) and our band of working Farmers and wives exploded last night. We were sat at 'their' favourite table and only 2 tall stools were left for three of these 70 plus' so-called gentlemen', ...
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• Holly Woodlawn 1946-2015, Transsexual actress

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor December 22, 2015
  Holly was famous for gaining fame as a Super-star in Andy Warhol's films and inspired Lou Reed's song 'Walk on the Wild Side. She was a Transgender actress who embraced hormones but not GRS, subsequently a cabaret artist, assistant in, a restaurant back hiome in Miami, and enjoyed a second career as...
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• Gender Dysphoria and Christmas

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor December 22, 2015
  For those of us Transitioning in 'middle-age', the 'Festive Season' is more often than not a 'double-edged' sword. I have not been inclined to fly home and join the family this or last year. To illustrate my point: one of the things I note from my trips to the only eighteenth century Coaching-House ...
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• Self appointed Guardians of Womanhood

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor December 19, 2015
  Germaine Greer is, in my opinion from her very recent outbursts of more than unseasonal "seasonal good-will to all" Transphobia, both sadly 'confused' and equally sadly also where this (Transported to 'Outer Pomgolia', as a woman of questionable virtue) excuse and apology for a  woman, and a &n...
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• Cyber-Trannies

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor December 18, 2015
  With much appreciation of Christine Shye's corrections:   Carole, a comittee member of out Manchester Transgender Group ( Concord, NOT Northern Concord! ), recently talked about the proliferation of 'Cyber-Trannies' on social media. I have always made a point of only accepting Transgender peo...
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