Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️

I changed my handle, as I own the domain ‘64ordle.au’ which is quicker to type than ‘catherine-cowie.bsky.social’. I hope y’all understand. The current avatar photo was taken on 4 July 2022, and the banner picture more recently at a TMBG concert – a funny thing happened on the way to the forum …

I've released the patreon short story from September 2025 to scribblehub! www.scribblehub.com/series/26038...

New chapter available on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/172677...

Chapter 11 of A Cordial Invitation is now live on scribblehub. www.scribblehub.com/series/18865...

Brilliant work by @mackinnonart.bsky.social

It seems like an appropriate time to post this… archiveofourown.org/works/940210... A robot costume discovered in mint condition in the back rooms of #Dorley provides a grave puzzle. And Halloween is just around the corner… what could possibly go wrong? (Conclusion chapter released tomorrow.)

I'm just going to leave this here, it's a network graph showing Mary-Ann's connections in the gender-critical world. Given that she's already deeply embedded in anti-trans activity, it's difficult to judge her on anything but that.

My Halloween Dorley microfic "Just Desserts" is now live on AO3

My new article, co-authored with @sandraduffy.bsky.social is out today, please read & share: "Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The exclusive short story from July Last year on my Patreon has been released on scribblehub. A secret, an accident, and a camping trip. www.scribblehub.com/series/25799...

Hi! This is out today and it’s awesome! And I am proud to be connected to it! SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE!!! WE ARE FUCKING MAGICAL!!!!

Happy 70th birthday to Australian television today! 📺🎂🇦🇺 youtu.be/UCRmx6g6mGE?...

Trans rights are under greater attack than ever before. We cannot let politicians claim no one told them. Our friends at @transsolidarity.bsky.social are hosting a mass lobby TOMORROW from 1 – 5pm, in the Houses of Parliament. Join us bit.ly/4i91O8O

The hilarious thing about being queer is that sometimes they do shit like this to you /before you’re even aware that you’re queer/. That’s what happened to 13-y-o prepubescent me. Oh sorry, ambiguous meaning of hilarious (depends on your point of view)

“It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender” Today is exactly 5 years since @theguardian.com censored the words of non-binary academic, Judith Butler. These are the censored words. Still valid now.

Dear BBC News, If you'd like to actually fulfill your mandate to inform the public of the reasons people take small boats please feel free to invite me onto any of your shows. I'm a world expert in this with an award winning book on the topic. Or you can just have a man stood shouting in the sea.

This is appalling, as though Auntie had decided to berate the survivors from the SIEV-X. Australia‘s ‘stop the boats’ anti-immigration racism has begotten so many illegitimate children. Abolish the BBC.

I feel like there’s something deeply, deeply tragic that Terry Gilliam, the Brazil / Munchausen / Don Quixote guy, who spent his career celebrating the triumph of human imagination and possibility over the “realistic”, became a TERF in his old age. Eventually just switched sides to join forces…

The S4C public-service Welsh-language news managed to get through a whole interview feature and article on the same trans person denied healthcare without mentioning "biological sex" or a 29-year-old's lost breastfeeding opportunities, btw The BBC specifically is making a choice here

Yes. This isn’t about separating art from the artist. This is about the fact that if you watch or give any attention to this show (including piracy) you are putting money into a bigotry machine. You’re literally funding hate.

So I suppose the story I wrote last month, where some inventive impersonation happens to obtain a prescription for testosterone, wasn’t that far off the mark. Fuck the NHS. archiveofourown.org/collections/...

The new ‘Keep Children Safe In Education’ guidance that effectively requires transphobic segregation of trans students in UK schools, takes effect tomorrow, 1 September 2026. The UK government has stripped trans youth of medical care, and now they’re going to make their lives a misery in education.

I don’t think a lot of cis people in the UK realise just how horrifying this repressive environment is going to be for trans children and youth. I wrote a few stories to flesh out how bad it could possibly be, but I feel sure it will be worse in practice. archiveofourown.org/collections/...

But, but, but… That opinion piece in The Atlantic *told me* that “Sorry America: Donald Trump Is Too Funny To Be a Fascist”, so how are we to reconcile this genocidal piece of eliminationist rhetoric except as pretending to be a lil bit fascist for “fun” on Fox. /sarcasm Actually not fun. At all.

I don’t think a lot of cis people in the UK realise just how horrifying this repressive environment is going to be for trans children and youth. I wrote a few stories to flesh out how bad it could possibly be, but I feel sure it will be worse in practice. archiveofourown.org/collections/...

Genuinely pathetic. Fuck off, Sir Queer Harmer.

Trans👏symbol👏does👏not👏mean👏gender👏neutral👏 That👏says👏trans👏segregation👏

Trans human rights should not be dependent in any way on biology At the same time, the science is pretty clear that transgender modality is a natural phenomenon

The new ‘Keep Children Safe In Education’ guidance that effectively requires transphobic segregation of trans students in UK schools, takes effect tomorrow, 1 September 2026. The UK government has stripped trans youth of medical care, and now they’re going to make their lives a misery in education.

/First Day./ A transgender girl’s first day back at an ordinary London high school, a little over a month from now, once new guidance and policies come into effect for the 2026/27 academic year. Please note the content warnings if that is needful for you. www.patreon.com/catherinecow...

In a brief moment while the kids are out the house I'm having a quick cry before regrouping, making plans A, B and C, and trying to act like the responsible adult in the room who has got clear solutions to systemic oppression and eliminationist violence.

We are working towards alternative options but those options haven't yet worked out. It's really scary and stressful. Most of all it's deeply sad. She has actually been happy at school. That happiness has been stolen from her.