Alice is removed from the tub and given a towel and Billy gets in. He’s never been scrubbed so hard in his whole life and fears the hard bristled brush might actually remove his skin. The brutal host puts a large bar of green soap in his hand and tells him to wash his hair. […]

“I’ll let you go to school as boys today.” she replied, emphasising ‘today’. This was a great relief for my brother. I however knew she wouldn’t really make us go to school dressed as girls. As we’d done at bedtime, we removed our nappies and dumped them in the bucket. Then mum told us to […]

Michael was one of about ten boys from his old primary school who ended up at Ashford, as opposed to about 50 girls. It wasn’t a big school, but it wasn’t in a big town. However, the male-female split became increasingly disproportionate since the new uniform regulations were brought in; another reason why Ashford had […]

She forces the children to stand whilst she lays the fire and lights it, before having the boy fetch a large pan of water which she places on the range.When the pan is sufficiently heated she pours its contents into the bathtub and sends the boy to refill it. Pan by pan the tub slowly […]

I imagined the shame I’d experience, entering the bustling schoolyard wearing the girl’s uniform and everyone pointing and laughing at me. I buried my head beneath my duvet and longed for another reality, but all I could think about was the prospect of having to wear girls clothes both in and out of school. A […]

Peter and Paul gulped in unison. Melanie flicked through the archive of photographs on her smart-phone and claimed that the pictures of them not kissing or cuddling or holding hands were far more powerful. “This one for example…” she said, showing them a photograph taken four months previously when they were dressed up as schoolgirls. “Anyone might […]