Being trans is not something to be feared. It’s just an aspect of a human being, the same way being gay is just an aspect of who I am. [...] The only… - Mhairi Black

Anybody ever watch Gilmore Girls? Mind when Paris built herself a fort in the newsroom of the paper so nobody could talk to her? That's the Prime Minister.

Once upon a time intellectuals made great prolific statements about race, saying "I think you'll find the statistics show more BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) people, crime goes up".
They might have been an intellectual, but they were also a racist.
The vast majority of people don’t know a lot about the trans community, and why should they? They are less than one per cent of the population.

I've been challenged going into female toilets before, course I have. Are you kidding?
I'm the sort of person who can deal with it, but there was one time I didn't even have to and it was one of the most powerful things I've experienced. There was a woman beside me who said [to the person questioning me] "Who the hell do you think you are, who are you to police this?"
That is exactly what I needed in that situation, I didn’t have power, but the woman beside me did.
In this debate, I'm the person with the power and I'm not leaving trans people behind.