JG: Even before you found the family documents concerning Ken and Hazel, your mother (Hazel’s sister) told you that the person you knew as “Uncle Ken” was actually a trans-woman. She also told you to keep this a secret; but you didn’t. What were your reasons for going public?
SD: I didn’t go public at first with this information, I just told my brother, sister, and my Trans-friends. But I felt that this was not something that should be kept secret. I have friends who are Trans and some of my friends have gone through very difficult times because of the ways in which people have reacted to them on the street and in public places. They are very brave in being open about who they are. Some people have encountered abuse on an almost daily basis. For me to keep quiet about the fact that I had a Trans relative seemed wrong. I felt if I kept it a secret, that would be colluding with the idea that there’s something wrong with being Trans - and I don’t think that.