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I’ve grown up with the Listener. My parents are longtime subscribers and, from checking the times of after-school TV cartoons to analysing the political columns, this magazine has seen me blossom from a scared and ashamed girl to a confident, proud and empowered transgender man.

So it is devastating when it publishes the views of those who question transgender people as a “concerning

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