To date, though, the national media has more or less completely failed to explore the ways in which such egregious incidents form part of a wider pattern of abuse of trans children. According to 2017 research by the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall, 64 per cent of British trans schoolchildren report being bullied for being trans or for their perceived sexual orientation (sometimes trans young people are instead perceived as gay); 13 per cent of trans pupils experience physical violence as part of this culture of bullying.5 Any connections between the prevalence of bullying and mental health issues
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