When the story of White’s conviction broke, I was phoned by a reporter at a British newspaper asking if I would provide a comment for her story on White. Her rationale for contacting me was that I was trans – no more, no less. I was incensed. That I should be called for comment on a case that at the time I knew little about, simply because White and I were both trans, seemed to imply that, in advocating for less medical gatekeeping in the gender recognition process, I was personally enabling a violent serial rapist.
