Every day is a Trans Awareness Day when you’re openly trans . Every interaction, every sideways glance, every moment of choosing authenticity over safety is an act of awareness.

So when Trans Awareness Week comes around, I sometimes feel conflicted. On one hand, it’s a welcome opportunity to talk openly about our lives. On the other, I can’t help thinking that there’s already too much awareness – just of the wrong kind.

We are, perhaps, one of the most discussed groups in Britain right now. Politicians, commentators, and campaigners seem endlessly fascinated by us. Yet so few of those conversations involve trans people themselves. The result is a strange kind of awareness: a noisy, abstract debate that bears little resemblance to our actual lives.

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