‘The numbers have increased significantly’, akt’s CEO Tim Sigsworth tells me at the charity’s head office in London. ‘When I started at akt twelve years ago, less than 5 per cent of our service users identified as trans. Now, we are looking at around 35 per cent.’ Later, I speak to Dawn, a regional services manager for akt in Newcastle, who says that in the north-east of England about half of the young people accessing akt’s services are trans. The reason for this dramatic increase in a little over a decade, Tim and Dawn both suggest, is that more people are coming out younger, but family and
...more
