So right now we've got this really weird debate:
What should we be doing with trans kids?
I just don't think that it's even a conversation,
kids are kids. Just let a kid be a kid.
It doesn't matter what that kid wants to wear, whether
or not it's a spider-man outfit or a princess outfit.
The more that we try and drill in boys wear blue, girls
wear pink, women should be doing this, girls have dolls,
boys have action men, this is where depression is
going to really start kicking in at an early age.
I know that for a fact if I wasn't told what I should
and shouldn't be from such an early age
then I would have found myself so much earlier.
Being trans is not difficult, it's other people and
how they make us feel that is extremely difficult.
Navigating our way in a society that is not 
built for us to exist in is extremely difficult.
So the more that we facilitate an existence that these
kids can thrive in and these kids can be themselves in,
the more extremely talented, extremely
happy, young adults are gonna be out there.
But if kids are just told that they should
be something that they're not
then, you know, we're gonna have
fuck loads of unhappy young adults.
So we just need to really start really thinking
about how we treat the adults of the future
and stop telling them to be something that they're not.
We got parents putting kids out of schools
because they're allowing kids to be themselves.
Just let kids be kids.
I kind of knew that I was trans from
when I was in primary school.
It's a feeling that I didn't have any words that I could
put to, it's something that I kind of just repressed.
I didn't really act on it, I didn't speak about it.
I definitely was conscious of what I wanted
but I didn't know that it was possible.
When I finally made the decision to transition it was
something that took me back, it shocked me a bit
because it is very, very difficult in the early stages;
you're flooding your body with so many hormones
and I kind of just panicked. I was about 23 and I started
to transition and then I backtracked on myself.
I just stopped for about a year and then I went back to it.
It was really difficult because you lose a lot of friends
family don't tend to really understand sometimes.
If you're in a relationship then that is make or break.
It's a really tough adjustment trying to explain something
that I was only just coming to grips with myself.
and that I didn't really know how to
explain what I was going through.
Me and my parents had a really rough time,
after many arguments and stand-offs,
we really just threw down the
weapons and got back to love.
When someone transitions everyone
around them transitions as well.
Once we all kind of got to grips with
what was going on and people realised
that I wasn't gonna change as a person any more than anyone else is gonna change going through their life,
it's just the visual is gonna be a little bit more different.
I mean I do think that trans people feel like they're
definitely under the microscope at the moment.
In the same way gay people were about 20 years ago.
So maybe from this something good will come.
but there's also lots of downsides: Employment
is difficult to come by if you're trans,
relationships are definitely harder
to navigate when you're trans,
representation in the media is a bit of an issue.
The more that we can do to just treat trans
people like regular people like anybody else.
I'm a person who just happens to be trans. I'm no
different from Tom, Bob, Sally or Jamal down the road.
I just want to change how people think about trans
people. I don't always want to talk about my gender.
It's not something that I think about all the time.
When I sit at home watching
Game of Thrones or whatnot
I'm sitting there eating chips
watching Game of Thrones.
I'm not a trans person all the
time in my mind, I'm just me.
The more that we offer a varied, interesting and nuanced
representation of trans people in the media people
people will just start to see us as regular human beings
rather than always talking about our gender.
Because it's really not that interesting.
It's really not interesting at all. (laughs)
It's just like what? I don't understand
what the fascination is to be honest.
