I am looking for UK-based trans people and their family/friends who are happy to participate in a 30m-1h interview on the subject of coming out as trans. These interviews will then be collected and used in my project as detailed below.

• to show the breadth of experience and opinion within the trans community and amongst its allies
• to demonstrate both our uniqueness as a group, and our 'ordinary-ness' to the wider public, contrary to attempts at sensationalising us and our experiences
• to explore my own feelings on the subject within this context

• On the 26th May 2026, I will be exhibiting recordings of interviews as part of the 'Changemaker Lens' initiative at St. James's Church, Piccadilly. They have provided me funding to do so and to access the event, which is why I can offer interview participants a £10 gift voucher, so I'm very grateful to them! View more info on Changemaker Lens here.
• The rest of the project is focused on creating a publication, most likely a book, assembling interviews and my own memoir to be (hopefully) published and sold.

I didn’t get to come out to my mum. When I was 16, she sat me down one day after school to tell me that she’d gone through my laptop and found out that I was trans and bi. To this day I don’t remember exactly what was said - I think I dissociated through the whole thing - but it was bad.

I think this experience is why coming out stories from my community fascinate me. There are so many different reactions and outcomes, and they’re all wonderfully unique but also fundamentally ordinary. This seems really at odds with the rhetoric that is getting louder and more prevalent in this country about trans people: politicians debating our right to use the bathroom; non-politicians debating our right to use the bathroom (often trying to enforce their views with abuse and violence). I know that people look at us and see a spectacle, when we’re really as normal and unique as everyone else.

I’m hoping that, through hearing more stories like these, my fellow trans people will feel comforted by and find strength in the collective experiences that we have. I’m also hoping that anyone looking for inflammatory material will be sorely disappointed, and maybe even reconsider their position. In addition, it's a chance for me to reflect on my own experiences through the memoir portion of the project, utilising the collective strength of the community myself.

With funding support from Changemaker Lens