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I came out almost a year ago, so the last 12 months have had a lot of firsts. Yesterday was another one: my first Women’s day march as an out trans woman. It is very easy to forget how easily rights can be taken away. It’s much easier and quicker for that to happen than the other way around. This is why we must continue showing up and standing up, for queer women, for bipoc women, for disabled women, for all women, everywhere. The fight is not over until we are all equal. No one is free until we are all free.

I did the banner I am holding on the first photo myself. It’s a famous slogan from the pro-abortion rights movement but I am co-opting for trans health care. It is still immensely difficult to have access to basic health care. The processes we have to go through to just have hormone treatment are infantilising, demeaning and, at times, even humiliating. It is our bodies and therefore it should our choice, and our choice only, what we do with them. The barriers currently in place remove the control we have over our own bodies. This is the ultimate struggle, for all women: in the eyes of the patriarchy, our bodies are never truly ours.