Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantine Kissen. And this is a show

for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people. Our brilliant guest today

is a teacher, journalist and self-described opinionator, Transwoman. They've been

welcome to Trigonometry. Hi, nice to meet you both. It's great to meet you. Great to have you here.

Thank you so much for coming on. We'll get into all your problematic opinions in a second.

But just tell everybody a little bit about who are you, how are you where you are? What has

been the journey that leads you through life to be sitting here talking to us? Right, I'm a teacher.

I've been teaching for 25 years. I live in Birmingham. I teach in the West Midlands.

I probably wouldn't be sitting here though if I hadn't transitioned 10 years ago.

And what led you to transition? Mental health, a mental health crisis really.

I'd had issues with my gender, I've sometimes described it, but don't try and push me on what

that actually means. But I knew I had psychological issues with this from when I was about three years old.

But managed to, as many other people do, you manage to keep it in check, get on with life,

grow up, get married, have kids, get a job. But around 10 years ago, I just found it

increasingly difficult to carry on as I was, as a man, working as a man, living as a man.

I felt I should have been a woman. I actually felt I actually believed at the time I was some sort

of woman. So I transitioned. And you got into, certainly came to people's attention to, certainly to

our attention when you wore a t-shirt and helped me get this right because this is all a bit

mind-fieldy. You wore a t-shirt saying, trans women are men. Really glad you're the one asking

this question, mate. As am I? Am I right so far? You're right. I'm right so far. And then there was

some, you know, it got in the news and there was a big thing and then there was a disciplinary

action and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, why would you as a trans woman wear a t-shirt saying

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