In the Autumn of 2023, I completed my PhD in Sociology with the title: The Experience of Waiting for Gender-Affirming Care in England: Emotions, Temporality, and Coping. During that time, I was an executive member of the University of Essex's LGBTQ+ Society for three years where I helped design and lead many activities and events for the community. I also founded and chaired the students' Trans Forum, during which I helped campaign for and achieve positive changes for trans+ students including more gender-neutral toilets and name change policies. I hold a BSc and an MSc is Psychology, and am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (this is a teaching qualification I achieved while teaching Psychology at The University of Essex during my PhD). Copies of these documents are available on request.

Post-graduating, I continue to commit to the trans+ community by volunteering for an LGBTQ+ charity as a support group facilitator, and by giving 15% of Rant and Recombobulate's income to two trans+ youth charities. Along the my, way I've seen outright and repressed anger from trans+ people about our social position, how our health care works, and all matters of life. There's no suitable space for that anger because of the social unacceptability of displaying anger, particularly at services designed to provide healthcare. The virtual space I offer is the space to be emotional, far removed from a formal healthcare setting.