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Last week Queer AF broke a story that revealed the suicide rate in trans under eighteens is around fourteen times higher than you might expect from census data. As the parent of Alice a trans woman who died by suicide in 2022 at the age of twenty, this story is of immense importance to me. One thing missing from the story, because it isn't a watertight fact, is that this figure is definitely an underestimate. Why? Alice died when she was twenty but she took a very serious ove

My day started early. The new electric radiator in my bedroom woke me, like an annoying alarm clock that I couldn't turn off, with volleys of irregular clunks and clicks as the heating process expanded the metal. Perhaps the current cold snap had brought on this change, something I hadn't noticed before, or maybe I was sleeping more lightly in anticipation of the day ahead. I was tired before I started, having spent the previous day at an inquest and the evening at a Gendered

After much procrastination I have finally got my act together and recorded my first independent Instagram reel. And it turns out it...

Edited 29th May My letter writing campaign to Streeting and Starmer continues. Two days late posting here, this is letter number two to...

12th May 2025   Dear Prime Minister I need your help. I’m the mother of Alice, a transgender woman who died by suicide aged twenty. The...

I've felt so crushed by the UK Supreme Court ruling in the For Women Scotland (FWS) case, that states, for the purposes of the Equality...

Caroline signing copies of 'Her Name Is Alice' at Gays the Word, London. It's not quite a fortnight since my book Her Name is Alice was...

I had to retreat under my grief blanket and write, after anti-trans heckling at this event last night left me in tears. I agreed to be...

TW Suicide, anxiety, references to transphobia We are ten days into 2025 and I’ve been to the gym six times, not bad when I haven’t...

For those of you that have been following me on Twitter for the last year, you will already know the story of Alice, my transgender...