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"When I was a child, I'd go to my grandmother's house and start writing. When I picked up my pencil, she'd tell me that in her day, left-handers would be forced to write with their right hands, which seemed ridiculous to me. Luckily, those days were over and although my left-handedness is still treated as a curiosity by people who expect me to have terrible script, I can write as I wish - but sometimes I imagine how absurd, not to mention vindictive, a campaign to return to this would look, and wonder if we'll ever reach a similar point where my transition is quietly accepted as a matter of bodily autonomy." [...] "Whereas gay and lesbian activists opposed pathologisation and the resultant aversion therapies, transsexual people understood that mental health services offered access to hormones and surgery, as long as they satisfied the gatekeeping requirements of the psychiatrists - which often demanded that transsexual women show a very tradition