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OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar – TNG – The Next Generation

Ms Sugar Swan January 31, 2018

Firstly, I need to apologise to my regular readers. I’m sorry there was no January column from me, I’ll be open and honest as to why. A lot of people look up to me and I get a lot of positive feedback from my work, other trans people are glad to see trans representation in Gscene and strangers get in touch telling me how great it is that I’m holding space for trans people and that they can often relate to what I write, whether they’re trans masculine, feminine, non binary and regardless of whether they’ve been transitioning for two months or 20 years.

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OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar – Looking Forward by Ms Sugar Swan

Ms Sugar Swan May 27, 2017

Today sees me one week post op of my fourth, and hopefully last, hair transplant surgery. Back in late February I headed to Latvia after a long search for a surgeon who would take on my hair restoration case. A tricky one due to the very advanced state of my balding. In April’s Gscene I covered the search for my surgeon and my experience of Latvia as a solo trans woman, this can be read in back issues online.

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OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar: Trans exclusionary feminism by Ms Sugar Swan

Ms Sugar Swan May 2, 2017

When I came out very publicly as trans, I was flooded with love and respect and within the first month of ‘being out’ half a dozen people had contacted me and come out as trans. Some of them I knew from Brighton, some I didn’t, but they all had the same message for me: “Thank you for talking about this and normalising things and allowing me in turn to come out”. Some of these people are still yet to come out to anyone else and I’m their only confidant.

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FEATURE: Transitioning with Sugar: Hair today – gone tomorrow

Ms Sugar Swan February 28, 2017

I remember a time in the late 1980’s when I was in school and my hair was long and my mother said I needed it cut for the school photographs. Obviously, being a little trans girl I didn’t want my hair cut, so, in an act of defiance, whilst my father who took me to the barbers was outside having a cigar, I asked for all my hair to be shaved off. – Fast forward to one unhappy mother with “ruined” school photos and one win for me as if I wasn’t allowed to present with the hair I wanted at school, there would be none whatsoever.

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FEATURE: Transitioning with Sugar

Ms Sugar Swan January 1, 2017

It came as a surprise to many when this time last year I came out as non-binary and then six months later came out once more as a transgender woman. Having fled my oppressive London Home County suburb aged 20, I landed in Kemptown and I have worked, lived, socialised and volunteered on the scene ever since.

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