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Personal Experience

A collection of 12 posts

SEEN in Northern Ireland

by Unseen

A member of SEEN based in Northern Ireland provides some reflections on the setting up of a SEEN in Northern Ireland group, and meeting other members of SEEN based in Northern Ireland for

18 November 2024 3 min read

SEEN in Scotland

by Unseen

A member of SEEN based in Scotland provides some reflections on the setting up of a SEEN in Scotland Group, and meeting other members of SEEN based in Scotland for the first time.

7 November 2024 2 min read

Violence against women - A personal account

by Unseen

I am not a victim, but I have been hurt by men. I won’t recount every time as the pain and fear crouches within me ready to pounce at any given opportunity. I

27 November 2023 3 min read

Why SEEN is important to me (vii)

What about my identity?

by Unseen

Bring your whole self to work is what my employer tells me. Unless of course you happen to believe like I do that sex is binary and fixed from conception. In that case

19 July 2023 2 min read

Why SEEN is important to me (v)

Experience and Worries in The Workplace

by Mahalia

This wasn’t something I ever saw myself doing, after I came out as a lesbian to my family that loved and accepted me, to walking with Stonewall at London’s Pride Parade. I didn’t

27 March 2023 3 min read

An interview with Ritchie Herron for Detrans Awareness Day

A perspective from a detransitioner in the civil service

by Ritchie

‘Detransitioners’ are people who have taken social or medical steps to change their gender but who later decide they feel more comfortable with their birth sex. Detransitioners are diverse and have varied and

12 March 2023 20 min read

International Women’s Day 2023

Equity for women in the playground

by Unseen

At my mixed-sex primary school, our playground consisted simply of one big rectangle made of concrete. The playground didn’t have any lines marked on it, and it had no goal posts. And yet

8 March 2023 3 min read

Why SEEN is important to me (iv)

by Unseen

[This post is the last of four speeches by SEEN members from our launch event in October. The author wishes to remain anonymous.]

27 February 2023 5 min read

Why SEEN is important to me (iii)

by Louise

[This post is the third of four speeches by SEEN members from our launch event in October.]

25 January 2023 8 min read

Why SEEN is important to me (ii)

by Mary

[This post is the second of four speeches by SEEN members from our launch event in October. Named individuals are anonymised.]

10 January 2023 8 min read

Why SEEN is important to me (i)

by Jimmy

[This post is the first of four speeches by SEEN members from our launch event in October.]

4 January 2023 5 min read

Ending violence against women

No equality without freedom. No freedom without freedom from fear of male violence

by Unseen

We like to think that in the UK we have equality between the sexes now. On the statute book, we mostly do. But can we ever be equal while women and girls live

25 November 2022 3 min read
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