British soap, Hollyoaks, is introducing a young trans character to the show. According to the makers, we’ll get to follow Jason’s journey from closeted transsexual through to coming out to his parents, friends and family all the way to hormonal treatment. And he’s just 15.

The Sunday Independent published an “analysis” piece this past weekend entitled, “A scalpel can’t rewrite history, whatever the surgery” which was, predictably enough, an attack on the hard-won victory achieved by Dr Lydia Foy to have her birth certifcate ammended to indicate her actual gender, as opposed to the sex she was assigned at birth.

Sarah-Jane Cromwell’s interview with the Irish Times was published Tuesday. In it, she plugs her book, congratulates herself for having gone about her transition the right way, and shares how awful it is to be thought to be gay.