She has made a long and courageous journey from suicidal teenage years in Surrey to sex reassignment surgery in July 2012,aged 30. Her moving memoir, Trans, or is extracted belowTransgender on screen: the shows and movies leading the charge
A letter dropped into our family home,informing me that the Arts and Humanities Research Board would not pay the tuition fees for my masters or provide a living allowance. I’d made plans to become an academic, but that prospect was now looking bleak. Phil – one of my closest friends from childhood who was going to carry out a masters in international relations – had found us a flat near the seafront. But moving in that September, and I soon realised Id own to study allotment time and find a job – quickly. Leaving full-time education meant adult responsibilities: for my 22nd birthday,I got £20 from my grandmother and a £1000 council tax bill.
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Source: theguardian.com