Last month, an 11-year-old trans girl was shot with a BB gun by fellow pupils in Greater Manchester - an incident her parents said left her “traumatised.” It is just one of many examples of the rise in bullying, from the mum who says her child is too anxious to make new friends because, as she puts it “If adults can’t understand and accept me, how are other kids going to?” to Dame Jenni Murray’s recent comments that trans women are not "real women".

Though the visibility of trans issues has increased, inaccurate representations are behind an increase in bullying, according to Mermaids, Britain’s support group for families of trans children.

The statistics are disappointing, but not surprising: growing up, hardly anything I read about people like me was based on first hand experience or evidence. There simply wasn’t a single trans person who was taken seriously in public life, anywhere. No news readers. No presenters. No MPs.