Abbie Chatfield

Yeah.

But yeah, like apart from that, everyone in my family is so supportive.

Like no one, and again, I think that comes back to it not being a big sudden announcement that I had been keeping as a secret that like no one had to adjust.

Yeah.

It was just same as usual.

Yeah.

What was school like?

School, primary school was like,

No one really knew what trans was.

They were just like, you're the weird boy that has long hair.

And like obviously all the boys would tease me and bully me about it and all the rest of it.

Just about your hair, but also about like Barbies.

Yeah, that I was weird or I'd have like painted nails or I'd talk like a girl or like just like all teasing about.

seeming like a girl um and no one knew what that was at that time and i probably didn't even know what trans was in primary school either not well not towards um towards the ladies i would have and then um high school like early high school um that was probably when the bullying was the worst

And yeah, cause like teenage boys, like nasty, nasty people.

Um, like I remember we would get changed for PE and cause I would use the boys bathroom.

I didn't really, cause when I came, when I moved to high school, um,

I was like, I don't know what's allowed.

I don't know what you're allowed to do.

Like it was very, I don't know if it's changed now, but when you're like in a fresh new school, you don't really speak up for yourself and like,