Puyallengai was a young talented 16 year old girl in Warrington Northern England.

She was loved not least by her family, her incredibly supportive mother.

She was trans, she had a big online following, particularly amongst other

young trans people. Now, nearly exactly a year ago she was murdered in the most

hideous possible circumstances by two other peoples. They've now been charged and convicted of murder

with live sentences handed to them by Manchester Crown Court. Before Brianna's murder, she was subjected

to hideous transphobic harassment and bullying.

Crucially, her murder is now being recognized as a hate crime.

The context here is important.

Britain is in the grip of an anti-trans moral panic. Transphobia, that is straightforward

bigotry, prejudice directed against trans people, has been whipped up by the media and by politicians,

portraying trans people as at best a social problem at worst is outright dangerous

with very disturbing parallels with the anti-game or panic of the past. The reality that trans people

suffer, like abuse including in all too many cases from their own families, violence, discrimination, access to relevant health care, we could go on, airbrush for reality.

With all that in mind, I'm so honored to speak to the journalist and legal

researcher Jesso Thompson they sat through the whole trial in this truly

distressing case. There's no better guess than the exceptional journalist and legal researcher

Jesso Thompson who has been everyday sitting through this trial hearing

unbelievably hiring details about what happened to be at it.

So firstly Jess I just want to say what you've done. So firstly, Jess, I just want to say what you've done, I've been

reading your reporting throughout and it has been absolutely exceptional and you should be so so

proud of what you've done, but it can't have been easy. It's a very, it's a hugely traumatic

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