Sam Trans Man

I wasn’t really affected by it, until one day one of my colleagues lay dying in an intensive care bed in front of me during a long hard night shift. Then it hit home. Felt a bit closer. It was a uniquely personal experience of the power of disease, pathology, overcoming medicine. We couldn’t help him, the world hadn’t caught up yet, there was no cure, no holding this at bay.

Dr Sam Hall Dr Samuel Hall on how parenting is a privilege, and sending your kids out into the big wide world. I’VE just lost a weekend. Setting off on Friday night with my eldest child on a road trip to deliver her to university, we stayed overnight with friends in the north, and then drove further north still, to Scotland, arriving in Edinburgh on Saturday afternoon.

Dr Samuel Hall Dr Samuel Hall on the differences between gender and its ‘concrete counterpart’ – sex. ONCE A year in July the Gscene issue is given over to all things trans… I love it. This year even more so because the editor is encouraging us to talk about gender. And gender is my favourite subject. Gender dysphoria has dominated my life thus far, and gender injustice has become my biggest passion.