Abbie Chatfield

And I was like, you're worried about me killing myself?

Because I've never been suicidal in my life.

I've been depressed, but I've never been near death or wanting to kill myself or anything like that.

So I was like, you're worried about me killing myself?

What do you mean, mum?

And then...

She was like, yeah, because you were the trans kid.

Like I was just worried like because that's all you'd hear about in the media.

You'd hear about this trans person killed themselves and like all the statistics obviously of like obviously the suicide rates are so much higher with trans people.

But, yeah, I was like, oh, my gosh, I never knew that she felt like that or had that concern.

I never knew that.

You were also getting bullied hectically though as well.

So that's the other thing.

Did she know?

Did you tell them?

Yeah, sometimes.

Like I wasn't – but the thing was I also had really thick skin.

So I wouldn't come home crying at all.

Like I just – I didn't –

I don't know if I probably cried about it, but I had such thick skin because I'd been dealing with it since primary school.