The Collection
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String and Bead Bracelet In Trans Flag Colours
MOT000113
Tag Charlie -17 I knew I was trans in February 2015, and I decided on my name change in the September of the same year. However, it wasn't until a year later that I found the courage to come out to my mum but even then I didn't really have courage in that part of myelf. I guess in a way wearing this every-day helped me get how scare I was of people finding out I was trans, as it being round my wrist everyday meant anyone could see it, at anytime. It took a while but I can now say I'm very pround to be trans! [smiley face] [drawing of a cat]
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Woven bracelet with "TRANS" plastic beads. Bracelet made of woven braids & plastic letter beads, worn & slightly dirty on braid.
- Dimensions
- Circumference 13 cm
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
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Subbuteo Figure
MOT/2024/LTMLTS/005
Tag 1.8 grams of plastic masculinity balanced on a button snapped from a woman's coat
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- Collection
- Letter To My Little Trans Self
- Categories
- Family, Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 3 cm Width 2 cm
A small figure stands on a button beside a handwritten tag describing plastic masculinity weight.
- Suit Style Jacket Made From Cardboard Sustanon Boxes MOT000201
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Medical, Fashion, Hormones
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Suit style jacket made from cardboard Sustanon boxes; sleeves made from patient instruction leaflets stuck over card.
The image shows a mannequin wearing a unique jacket made from variously printed pharmaceutical packaging materials.
- Sunlight Brand Hospital Towel MOT000004
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- E-J Scott, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- "Sunlight" brand hospital towel. Hospital towel, white with blue lettering "Sunlight" brand, several reddish-brown stains.
- Dimensions
- Height 100 cm Width 59 cm
A neatly folded white towel features a distinctive blue stripe with a design and text.
- Surgical stockings MOT000104
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- White surgical stockings size large. Surgical stockings (x2) white, have been worn & washed, open toed, elasticated cuff top & bottom. Printed in blue on foot COVIDEN T.E.D stockings x large, regular, size G ref 7604. No staining.
- Dimensions
- Height 59 cm Width 12 cm
Worn white stockings with grey elastic bottom.
- Sustanon 250 Testosterone Amps - 17 Boxes MOT000061.1
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 7 cm Width 5.3 cm Depth 2 cm
A stack of boxes labeled "Sustanon 250" is arranged, featuring blue and white packaging.
- Sustanon 250mg Box MOT000181
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Sustanon box containing paper instructions. Sustanon 250mg box for 1 x 1ml glass ampoule, box open, contains paper patient instructions only. Pill strip, plastic & foil, empty, contained 28 "Mer…(?) made by Novartis Farmaceutica S.A.
- Dimensions
- Height 7 cm Width 2.8 cm Depth 5 cm
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
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Sustanon 250mg Box Unopened
MOT000193
Tag ‘FINALLY!!! In the first term of my second year at uni, the consultants gave me the go-ahead to start having testosterone injections. I was so happy! I felt like it had taken forever to reach that point. I will continue to have these injections for the rest of my life.’
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Sustanon box and unused ampoule. Sustanon 250mg box unopened, containing unused 1 x 1ml glass ampoule. Prescription label on box has been torn to remove patient details.
- Dimensions
- Height 7 cm Width 2.7 cm Depth 5.5 cm
Sustanon box and unused ampoule.
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Sustanon Box
MOT/2024/NDOTC/SOUT/011
Tag My first bottle of testosterone. After being refused HRT for almost 4 years, I went on The deep web, found a steroid supermarket and paid £70 for my first vial of boy juice. It saved my life ♡ - Maxwell Bessey (4 yrs on T 27/04/2024) [top left: ink drawing of a vial, right edge: ink drawing of a plaster, bottom right corner: ink drawing of a syringe]
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 3 cm Width 5.5 cm Depth 3 cm
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
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Sustanon Box
MOT000186
Tag Sustanon 250 is the best thing that has happened to me apart from my wife & son! It made me the husband & father I always wanted to be
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Sustanon 250mg 1ml ampoule. Empty box, creased, worn & faded. Prescription label Mr Adam Fogg 27/6/16.
- Dimensions
- Height 7 cm Width 5 cm Depth 2.5 cm
Card "Sustanon" prescription box.
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Swallow Pin Badge
MOT/2024/NDOTC/HAST/015
Tag Swalls signify home, beloning, love and loyalty. I wore this tie pin on the day I got married and on the day of my mum's funeral. I have always been loved and had a safe home with my family. And now I have a family of my own. I know that is a privilege. But I was in my mid 30s before I found people who I could see as my future, people I could look like as I get old. Sucessful people. I remember first seeing the [Drakes?], Wide eyed, fast beating heart. I felt home. I felt like belonged. I am finally the inbetween I have always been.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Family, Badges
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 1.5 cm Width 1.5 cm Depth 1.5 cm
A small golden pin which is a swallow. Behind it is a brown luggae tag with writing on it.
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T For Tea Trans Flag and 5 Badges
MOT/2024/TP/COVE/001
Tag THIS IS THE BANNER WE MARCHED WITH AT BIRMINGHAM PRIDE 2024. WE RETIRED THE NAME TEA FOR T SHORTLY AFTER TO BECOME COVENTRY TRANS PRIDE.
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- Collections
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland, Placard & Banner Collection
- Categories
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland, Banners, Badges
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 1,524 mm Width 915 mm Depth 1 mm
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