getreading.co.uk – By Juliette Harris
Tilehurst’s Andrea Waddell suffered a terrible death – after her murderer was sent to jail for 22 years, the policeman leading the case said without support from the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and sex worker communities, Andrea – who was a transsexual – and her family would not have received the justice they deserved.
Here Juliette Harris, a transsexual woman, gives an insight into the suffering many transgender people face in their everyday lives:
I am a transsexual woman. Maybe you’re giggling already? Perhaps a little snigger behind your hand?