When I interviewed the Cambridge academic Dr Kate Stone, following her headline-grabbing attack by a stag this time last year, she told me about the difficulties she faced when she first transitioned from male to female, which include, but are not limited to: having ice thrown at the back of her head while drinking in a bar, alone, in Cambridge; being harassed in nightclubs, and then being thrown out of said nightclubs after door staff assumed she was causing the problem. Kate is a bright, positive and generous woman, and I’ve been inspired by the pragmatic way she has dealt with injustice, but her story confirms what trans people know instinctively: life is tough for us. Pick any old trans person at random and they’ll have a tail of sorrow for you, of family rejection, of violence, of lack of medical care right at the time they needed it most. Misery narratives are like BHS coat hangers for trans people – rummage around in the closet and it seems everyone has one.