Trans people are experiencing an unprecedented level of media exposure at the moment. In many ways, this has really been positive. When I was growing up in rural Suffolk, I spent my adolescence thinking I was the only person in the world who felt the way I did. Fast forward 10 years and we have trans actors playing trans characters on TV and in movies (spoiler alert: they’re not all serial killers or murder victims any more), and trans filmmakers; and journalists, signal-boosting the unheard voices of our communities in the public arena. However, this new visibility has been accompanied by what can only be called an extreme anti-trans backlash from the right-wing press, second-wave feminists, and even from some of our LGB brothers and sisters, all of which affects our social identity as trans people, and our individual sense of self-esteem.