Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir

Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir | Metro columnist

Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir is a Metro columnists, author, feminist and trans advocate.

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British singer Adele Laurie Blue Adkins aka Adele celebrates after receiving the album of the year award during the BRIT Awards 2022 ceremony and live show, in London, on February 8, 2022. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE NO POSTERS NO MERCHANDISE NO USE IN PUBLICATIONS DEVOTED TO ARTISTS (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

There's nothing transphobic about saying you love being a woman

Channel: Showbiz Showbiz February 23, 2022
People waving Rainbow flag at Gay Pride Parade on city street

We should be very worried the UK's been called out for moving backwards on LGBT+ rights

Channel: UK UK February 14, 2022
Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, finishes the 200 yard Freestyle for the University of Pennsylvania at an Ivy League swim meet against Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 22, 2022. - Thomas placed first in the event. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Why can't trans people compete in sport without getting backlash?

Channel: Sport Sport June 21, 2022
RuPaul (Picture: RuPaul's Drag Race)

Why I'm celebrating the trans Drag Race contestants over the straight cisgender one

Channel: TV TV January 19, 2022
Transgender person from behind, wearing pink and white striped sweatshirt, holds transgender flag

The trans community is resilient but 2021 has been unrelenting for us

Channel: UK UK December 29, 2021
"Seahorse" - 2019 Tribeca Film Festival

Trans dads should be allowed to be listed as fathers on their kids' birth certificate

Channel: News News December 16, 2021
Theres Something About Miriam finale reveal

Do you remember There's Something about Miriam? As a trans person, I will never forget it

Channel: TV TV December 2, 2021
M&S give staff pronoun badges TAKEN WITHOUT PERMISSION

Like M&S workers, I would welcome a badge displaying my pronouns

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle November 17, 2021
Government plans to make coercive conversion therapy a criminal offence

You can't 'consent' to conversion therapy - the ban must be absolute

Channel: UK UK November 3, 2021
A transgender flag being waved at LGBT gay pride march; Shutterstock ID 1449773558; Purchase Order: -

LGBT lives aren't political, so stop treating us like they are

Channel: UK UK October 21, 2021
Sajid Javid, U.K. health secretary, during a news conference inside number 10 Downing Street in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a tax hike on workers, businesses and shareholders to help rescue the National Health Service from soaring backlogs that built up during the Covid-19 pandemic and reform the "broken" social care system. Photographer: Neil Hall/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

I'm bored with MPs arguing over who does and who doesn't have a cervix

Channel: UK UK October 7, 2021
Young man holding two transgender high in the sky

Puberty was agonising for me - hormone blockers can save trans kids' lives

Channel: UK UK September 23, 2021
Close up of female intertwined hands

Trans family members deserve your backing, not rejection

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle September 8, 2021
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - 2021/06/26: A placard that says 'support trans lives' printed against the transgender pride flag during the march. The Transgender Pride rally were coordinated by Socialist Workers, calling for protection of the rights of transgender people in the UK. The march took place in Leicester Square. (Photo by Belinda Jlao/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

I was bullied at school - teachers need guidance to help trans kids feel safe

Channel: UK UK August 25, 2021
Mat Stevenson adopting daughter's trans friend Belle Bambi, and as Adam Cameron in Home and Away

Soap star Mat Stevenson adopting trans teen shows what parenting means - love and support

Channel: Home and Away Home and Away August 13, 2021
A stalker like photo of a girl walking at night

I feel unsafe walking alone too - cis and trans women must unite against male violence

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle July 29, 2021
Campaigner Christie Elan-Cane outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, to challenge the Government over gender-neutral passports. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday October 11, 2017. Elan-Cane, who has given evidence to Parliament about transgender equality, believes the UK's passport application process, which requires individuals to indicate whether they are male or female, is inappropriate. See PA story COURTS Passport. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

Non-binary people shouldn't have to list male or female on their ID

Channel: UK UK July 15, 2021
Trans Pride Protest In London 26 Jun 2021. Credit: Photo by WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Comparing trans kids' healthcare to conversion therapy makes a mockery of LGBT struggles

Channel: UK UK July 1, 2021
Photograph of trans rights flag

I don't want to see any more male actors play trans women

Channel: Entertainment Entertainment June 3, 2021
The Queen is pictured during her speech this month with an inset picture of a person wearing a t-shirt with 'PROUD' printed in the colours of the LGBT+ rainbow flag

The conversion therapy ban must protect transgender people too

Channel: UK UK May 20, 2021

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