Gender dysphoria is something that is facing many more parents as their children start to indicate gender identity problems. Child Line is receiving 8 calls per day from children who are voicing concern and confusion about who they really are. As society moves towards an understanding of this subject there is at the same time a big

I happened upon Jo Good of BBC Radio London talking about breath work and a book she mentioned called And Breathe by Rebecca Dennis. I decided to add my opinion on my experiences with my pain and anxiety which plagued me for years until I chose to turn and look at it square in the

No one truly knows the impact gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria, has on a person. Especially children who grow up in a society where the topic is left undiscussed, pushed away under the carpet of dogma and bullying. If children can be accepted as the individuals they are then the dysphoria doesn’t have a

Mindfulness is a wonderful tool for discovering yourself and what makes you tick. If you have depression, anger, resentment, abandonment, rejection, and all sorts of other painful emotions, then look no further. Mindfulness has taught me a lot about how my childhood and early adulthood created who I am now. My experiences very much coloured my

A trip to Brighton to the BBC Sussex studios was a mixture of rain and sun. I was given a bunch of papers to read and choose some stories to talk about on air. What surprised me was the crassness of some of these stories. Admittedly, I don’t read papers much but I found this

I had yet another opportunity to converse with Iain Dale on LBC. It does seem America has gone mad. More rules and regulations on allowing religious groups and businesses to discriminate against gays and trans people. As if life isn’t hard enough already for the LBGT community. Some States have passed legislation to give permission

I had another opportunity to converse with Iain Dale on LBC. This time the subject was toilets. Strange topic but some establishments are making toilets single sex, removing the urinals and installing stalls instead. And some are removing the signs to help trans people become more accepted in society. A good thing. But many people

Transphobia seems to be on the rise again after we have had a flurry of activity in the trans world. Caitlyn Jenner, Kellie Maloney, me, The Danish Girl, comments by Germaine Greer and Jeremy Clarkson, and trans individuals being put in the inappropriate gender prison. More suicides. And murders. It seems never ending. All the

I was very surprised when BBC Surrey Radio emailed me for another interview. Only a month ago I was in the studio with Mark Carter listening to me voicing some really challenging, deeply emotional stuff about my transgender experiences. This time, with the new BBC Two series ‘Boy meets Girl’ being broadcast over the next few weeks,

On July 29th 2012, I first met Mark Carter when I filmed the Olympic cycle races which came through our village. On July 29th 2015, I emailed Mark to see if he would be interested in the book I was about to publish describing my experiences with gender dysphoria. I realised later that I had actually emailed to