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:00:02. > :00:12.Deceiving the old and vulnerable - the company that promises prizes

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:00:14. > :00:22.that never arrive. They found a sucker. They are conmen. They don't

:00:22. > :00:31.care. The bugs from abroad that are eating our woods. If we don't act

:00:31. > :00:38.soon, we will end up with jest And girls will be boys and boys

:00:38. > :00:43.will be girls. But how tough is it being transgender? Life was

:00:43. > :00:48.unbearable not to live as Michele. I was a classic tomboy. I didn't

:00:48. > :00:53.like wearing dresses. I'm Natalie Graham with untold

:00:53. > :01:03.stories, closer to home. From all round Kent and Sussex, this is

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:01:29. > :01:33.Hello, I'm in Bedgebury Pinetum. I She is 85 years old and a widow.

:01:33. > :01:42.Her son died seven years ago. After the trauma of his early death, she

:01:42. > :01:47.started chasing a cash prize which doesn't exist. She thought she had

:01:47. > :01:54.when tens of thousands of pounds because mail order companies wrote

:01:54. > :02:03.to her telling her she was a nature. Companies like this. All she had to

:02:03. > :02:09.do was place orders with them. tells me and I have won �40,000.

:02:09. > :02:16.You can't blame me for trying to get it.

:02:16. > :02:22.She wrote to the companies that were promising to give her the

:02:23. > :02:32.money. Over the years, instead of winning thousands, she has spent

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:02:35. > :02:45.thousands. Why has she carried on? I was alone in the House and felt

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:02:52. > :02:57.this would be lovely. She had no reason to believe it was not true.

:02:57. > :03:06.Why wouldn't I believe it? They don't supply the prize and you go

:03:06. > :03:14.on ordering. She is not alone. We have heard from people across the

:03:14. > :03:19.country. Hundreds of people have run to the company. We have

:03:19. > :03:23.evidence to prove their letters were destroyed it by the UK nerve

:03:23. > :03:29.centre of this massive mail-order scam. We thought it was time people

:03:29. > :03:38.being can't have their fur -- voices heard.

:03:38. > :03:44.They are clearly not reading the letters. Dear friends, I enclose my

:03:44. > :03:49.order. I am in a wheelchair, have had two heart attacks, I am a

:03:49. > :03:55.diabetic and very lonely. The only people I see are the nurse twice a

:03:55. > :03:59.week to change the dressings on my legs and the doctor every week. I

:03:59. > :04:03.don't see anyone, I pay for some treatment that would help me walk

:04:03. > :04:08.again. One employee whose job it was to

:04:08. > :04:14.have been the customers' letters were so appalled that she went

:04:14. > :04:24.under cover with a camera to show what happens. Making sure I can't

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:04:31. > :04:37.see anything. A French man promises surprises in that order for and the

:04:37. > :04:47.chance to win money. Several people thought they had one. I thought it

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:04:51. > :04:56.can't be right. People write in. It People are confused and asking

:04:56. > :04:59.about the prize and why they haven't got it. A lot of people say

:04:59. > :05:04.they need the money. They are asking about it. All of these

:05:04. > :05:10.things, I have to throw away. to see some of the people behind

:05:10. > :05:20.this business. Many of the companies are owned by the same

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:05:21. > :05:31.person, a wealthy French man who leaves a UK -- who needs a UK

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:05:36. > :05:39.address. You might know David if you're member of the Royal

:05:39. > :05:42.Southampton Yacht club based here or the Royal Southern Yacht Club

:05:42. > :05:46.based in Hamble. You see David Gebbett's a keen sailor. That's his

:05:46. > :05:49.yacht over there, moored nice and close to his bolt hole here in

:05:49. > :05:54.Ocean Village. His son Nick Gebbett, lives in Norfolk. He's big into

:05:54. > :05:58.Skiing. He's on Twitter if you want to follow him. Latest tweet -

:05:58. > :06:08.something about taking the cat to the vets. I digress, no tweets as

:06:08. > :06:16.yet about running a company involved with a mass marketing scam.

:06:16. > :06:20.This is David and this is Nick who appears to be in charge. While they

:06:20. > :06:25.throw away most letters they receive, Nick did get the letter we

:06:25. > :06:30.sent in. He replied they would only as our questions in a statement if

:06:30. > :06:34.they used it in full and unedited. We want to hear their side of the

:06:34. > :06:39.story but we can't go giving promises like that to anyone. I

:06:39. > :06:44.needed to know why they thought it was OK to do the dirty work for a

:06:44. > :06:54.French scanner. For what were the chances of that?

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:06:56. > :06:59.I managed to bump into David. I am from BBC Inside Out. Can I ask why

:07:00. > :07:04.your company continues to cash cheques of vulnerable people? You

:07:04. > :07:09.know what is going on. I can't answer questions. We have sent a

:07:09. > :07:15.statement to you. Your staff have been instructed to shred their

:07:15. > :07:18.letters. That is not good customer service. I can't comment. Why do

:07:18. > :07:25.you continue to have dealings with the company that is ripping these

:07:25. > :07:30.people off? I can't comment on that. I have to go. What do you say to

:07:30. > :07:40.these people that of being taken for a ride? You can stop it

:07:40. > :07:42.

:07:42. > :07:52.happening. Some other company would do it. That doesn't make it right.

:07:52. > :07:53.

:07:53. > :08:03.You have nothing to say? Surely you owe them something. There we go. If

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:08:03. > :08:09.they didn't do it, somebody else would. Does that make it right?

:08:09. > :08:15.She is left bewildered and often tearful.

:08:15. > :08:20.When I am not with people, I often cry. They have found a sucker. They

:08:20. > :08:26.are conmen. They don't care. The jails are full of them. People hurt

:08:26. > :08:29.-- people who hurt others. The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau

:08:29. > :08:33.has asked to see at evidence as they say they are keen to take

:08:33. > :08:41.action on any companies that operate to deceive members of the

:08:41. > :08:45.public. My message to companies is that you are on borrowed time.

:08:45. > :08:49.job in the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau is to close in

:08:49. > :08:59.to stop you operating, to bring you to justice and to make sure you are

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:09:02. > :09:08.seen as part of that criminal conspiracy. As my number is the

:09:08. > :09:18.winning number. I hope you will pay me. I am living on hope. My work

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:09:21. > :09:26.here is done. We have truly given Coming up, life can be tough if you

:09:26. > :09:36.are Trans gender. Further down the road I was attacked by someone.

:09:36. > :09:37.

:09:37. > :09:41.They pulled my hair, tried to gouge my it eyes out. Now, we all know

:09:41. > :09:45.the expression, you can't see the wood for the trees. But there's

:09:45. > :09:49.growing concern that in some places in the South East, we may soon not

:09:49. > :09:52.being able to see the trees for the bugs, and if we don't take action

:09:52. > :09:57.now we may not see the woods at all. They make England green and

:09:57. > :10:07.pleasant. They give us seasons of colour, have been with us since we

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:10:10. > :10:16.were children and are even planted Trees are essential to life as we

:10:16. > :10:18.know it. Every root, every branch has an important role to play. But

:10:18. > :10:23.there is a hidden threat to our trees, something that silently

:10:23. > :10:27.kills often going unnoticed. If we don't act soon, we are going to end

:10:27. > :10:36.up with a landscape that looks like a moonscape, just sort of scrub

:10:37. > :10:44.Pests and diseases, are threatening the very existence of the trees

:10:44. > :10:50.that we love. This year 4,500 trees in Paddock Wood in Kent have had to

:10:50. > :10:55.be been felled and burned. The cause of all this destruction is a

:10:55. > :10:58.beetle around three cm long. It's called the Asian Long Horn beetle,

:10:58. > :11:04.and it's thought to have travelled here on wood packaging imported

:11:04. > :11:07.from China. The beetle larvae causes the damage by burrowing

:11:07. > :11:17.inside the bark, eating the wood and killing the tree or leaving it

:11:17. > :11:43.

:11:43. > :11:45.susceptible to other disease. Both the Forestry Commission and

:11:45. > :11:49.the Food and Environment Agency are desperate to stop it spreading.

:11:49. > :11:52.They have even brought in sniffer dogs from Austria to hunt down any

:11:52. > :11:57.traces of the insect that may remain.

:11:57. > :12:00.In 2009, we started the detection with the dogs. Sometimes you cannot

:12:00. > :12:04.see the symptoms, maybe because of the height or because they are

:12:04. > :12:14.hidden by some shrubs or something else. So we decided to try the

:12:14. > :12:19.

:12:19. > :12:22.detection by the dogs method. why has there been an increase in

:12:22. > :12:25.the number of pests and diseases entering our country over the past

:12:25. > :12:28.few years? Many believe it's due to the introduction of free trade

:12:28. > :12:31.between EU countries. With EU imports, you've got this

:12:31. > :12:33.business of having free and unfettered trade between nations,

:12:33. > :12:37.so the normal strict quarantine rules are modified and slackened to

:12:37. > :12:40.allow this to happen. And of course you get free trade in goods and

:12:40. > :12:44.services which is what Brussels wants but you also get free trade

:12:44. > :12:47.in pests and diseases as well. can't be that easy though. The

:12:47. > :12:50.amount of timber and plant material coming into this country, you're

:12:50. > :12:53.never going to be able to stop a tiny beetle or a latent disease.

:12:53. > :12:56.You can if you have the proper quarantine measures. And if it's a

:12:56. > :12:59.really dangerous situation, you do what they do with some plant

:12:59. > :13:02.material from places like the United States, and China, and South

:13:02. > :13:05.Africa. If there's a really serious problem in these countries, they

:13:05. > :13:07.just don't allow the things to come in. So is the government doing

:13:07. > :13:08.enough? Martin Ward is responsible for co-

:13:08. > :13:12.ordinating plant health policy across the UK.

:13:12. > :13:15.You're the man at the top when it comes to containing what's been

:13:15. > :13:18.described as a crisis. Is it a crisis?

:13:18. > :13:28.Well we've always had new arrivals, and it'll be impossible to keep

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:13:35. > :13:38.everything out. People were to be able to move plants around and

:13:38. > :13:43.import exotic plants for their gardens.

:13:43. > :13:53.It is not so simple as to be able to stop all of that. But there are

:13:53. > :14:06.

:14:06. > :14:08.importing killers of our tree So these pests and diseases are

:14:08. > :14:11.threatening our landscapes and our commercial woodlands. But there's a

:14:11. > :14:14.bigger risk. It's not just the trees health, It's our health too.

:14:14. > :14:17.Another pest that has been imported into England is the oak

:14:17. > :14:20.processionary moth. It's thought to have arrived on oak trees from a

:14:20. > :14:23.Dutch nursery in 2005.The infested trees had eggs on the branches

:14:23. > :14:27.which are very hard to spot, even with an expert eye. Once hatched

:14:27. > :14:30.the caterpillar produces thousands of toxic hairs. They can kill

:14:30. > :14:33.animals, give people a nasty rash and in rare cases, cause much more

:14:33. > :14:39.severe symptoms. You can get severe itching, you can get dermatitis,

:14:39. > :14:41.pharyngitis, laryngitis. There are cases now where there are

:14:41. > :14:44.schools in Germany where they're frightened to open the windows for

:14:44. > :14:51.the pupils in summer because they're frightened of the toxic

:14:51. > :14:53.hairs coming in. In Bromley in Kent, there has been an outbreak of oak

:14:54. > :15:02.prosessionary moth and tree surgeon Mike Townsend is working to control

:15:02. > :15:07.Some trees are completely clean, and the tree next to it could have

:15:07. > :15:10.60 or 70 nests in it. And on this site so far, we've removed in

:15:10. > :15:13.excess of 1200 nests. So far it's been treated as a tree health

:15:13. > :15:16.problem hence why all the action is being led by the Forestry

:15:16. > :15:19.Commission. However, on the continent, it is primarily treated

:15:19. > :15:21.as a public health issue and if something is treated as a public

:15:21. > :15:24.health issue that automatically increases the political will, the

:15:24. > :15:30.resources available, the public awareness which will then help with

:15:30. > :15:34.managing it. In Germany, the government pays for the removal of

:15:34. > :15:37.oak processionary moth, but in the UK if you find a nest in your

:15:37. > :15:43.garden, you have to pay to remove Local Authorities have to pay if

:15:43. > :15:49.it's in a public place. Dr Mabbett believes that cost means

:15:49. > :15:52.action is often avoided, he wants the Government to do more. If the

:15:52. > :15:55.government had spent a few hundred thousand pounds back in 2006 to

:15:55. > :16:02.control a few infested trees in Ealing and Richmond, look at the

:16:02. > :16:05.savings they could have made. Oak processionary moth has been in

:16:05. > :16:08.this country for about six years. If you'd taken swifter action, we

:16:08. > :16:11.wouldn't be in this situation now. Well, you can always do more, and

:16:11. > :16:14.we have to work within the resources that we have available,

:16:14. > :16:16.and the action that's been taken on oak processionary moth with

:16:16. > :16:19.landowners is working at limiting the spread of it now.

:16:19. > :16:22.We don't expect to be able to eradicate oak processionary moth

:16:22. > :16:24.from west London, but we are intending to limit the spread and

:16:24. > :16:27.to eradicate outlying outbreaks where those occur, with the work

:16:27. > :16:37.largely of the Forestry Commission in that case, with oak

:16:37. > :16:37.

:16:37. > :16:39.processionary moth. We're working also with the Health Protection

:16:39. > :16:48.Agency because of the health implications of oak processionary

:16:48. > :16:51.moth. Over at the Hop Farm in Paddock

:16:51. > :16:54.Wood, local school children are planting new trees to replace the

:16:54. > :16:57.ones that were chopped down because of the Asian Long Horn Beetle.

:16:57. > :17:01.Hop farm have chosen the apple tree, because it's much less prone to

:17:01. > :17:07.attack from the beetle. And they will continue to keep a look out

:17:07. > :17:10.for the bug. The Hop farm have chosen the apple tree, because it's

:17:10. > :17:13.not a favourite of the beetles. And they will continue to keep a

:17:13. > :17:16.lookout for the bug. Now Chalara Ash dieback has been discovered in

:17:16. > :17:19.the UK's countryside the government is expected to ban imports of ash

:17:19. > :17:23.trees next month. It's hoped this will prevent the decimation of ash

:17:23. > :17:27.woodland that was seen in Denmark when 90 % of their ash trees were

:17:27. > :17:29.killed off by the deadly fungus. Maybe it's time to be more vigilant

:17:29. > :17:32.when it comes to protecting our trees from unwelcome pests and

:17:32. > :17:38.diseases I'm like millions and millions of people in this country,

:17:38. > :17:41.I love my native natural woodlands. And I would say to people the way

:17:41. > :17:45.things are going, if you really appreciate your woodlands and you

:17:45. > :17:47.want to remember what they look like you get out and you look at

:17:47. > :17:57.them now. Because the way things are going, they will look

:17:57. > :18:05.

:18:05. > :18:10.completely different in 20 years We may think we live in a liberal

:18:10. > :18:17.society, but what is life like if you are a gal who wants to live as

:18:17. > :18:27.a buyer, or vice versa? -- A girl who wants to live as a

:18:27. > :18:29.

:18:29. > :18:32.boy. You're either a boy or a girl, but

:18:32. > :18:36.there are some people who are in between. But while many of us tend

:18:36. > :18:38.to think of the world as male or female, it's clear it's not as

:18:38. > :18:41.simple as that and experts have discovered whole range of

:18:41. > :18:45.identities in between. We might tend to think of the world as male,

:18:45. > :18:55.or female/girl or boy. But there are people who are in between and

:18:55. > :19:05.

:19:05. > :19:14.some who want to become the other. They match grey is a fear and their

:19:14. > :19:17.hostility. -- in there is beefier.

:19:17. > :19:21.Gender dyshoria is the medical term for when people feel anxious about

:19:21. > :19:31.their gender. Some people say they feel trapped in the wrong body and

:19:31. > :19:33.

:19:33. > :19:36.for many the pain of this can be unbearable. Michelle Nall knew was

:19:36. > :19:39.born male, but it was an identity she didn't recognise.

:19:39. > :19:42.I've known there was something different about me ever since I was

:19:42. > :19:45.five, or six years old, I didn't know what it was back then

:19:45. > :19:49.obviously, but as I got older I started to realise. It wasn't until

:19:49. > :19:53.my later years that I knew I wanted to wear women's clothes and wanted

:19:53. > :19:57.to change gender, but it's so unacceptable to do that. I had to

:19:57. > :20:01.try and live in a male role. I've had a son, I've tried to get

:20:01. > :20:04.married and just live in a male role. It's such a dark time though,

:20:04. > :20:07.the depression is so bad, I just couldn't do it anymore and had to

:20:07. > :20:10.come and change my gender. I've lost most of my friends through it,

:20:10. > :20:12.I had struggles with my family with it as well.

:20:12. > :20:15.It's a very difficult time physchologically as well as a

:20:15. > :20:19.physical changes as well, it's very difficult to explain but you are

:20:19. > :20:21.not born in the body you should be. Experts say changing your gender

:20:21. > :20:26.can mean widespread discrimination and that life in general for trans

:20:26. > :20:30.people can be a lot worse than we might think. Raphael Fox was born a

:20:30. > :20:33.female, but always felt he should have been a boy.

:20:33. > :20:36.What was going through my mind was just general unhappiness, I felt

:20:36. > :20:39.uncomfortable with myself, I couldn't do all the normal things I

:20:39. > :20:46.wanted to do, for example, as a child maybe six years old or

:20:46. > :20:49.whatever. Our family would go out to the

:20:49. > :20:59.local supermarket and I'd make friends round there and me and the

:20:59. > :21:05.

:21:05. > :21:08.guys would hang out. I had my hair cut short, so I don't think they

:21:08. > :21:11.really recognised that I was female and at the end of the playdate,

:21:11. > :21:15.hang out or whatever. They would say, "well what's your name?". I

:21:15. > :21:18.would be like, "er Rachel, "and it gave me away and I felt embarrassed

:21:18. > :21:21.about it. It's such an odd thing to look back and think I really was

:21:21. > :21:24.that unhappy and that uncomfortable in my own body. It's something I

:21:24. > :21:28.can't really describe, I think I only realised how uncomfortable I

:21:28. > :21:31.was in my own skin until I started to do something about it and I

:21:31. > :21:34.started to feel better about myself. I'd lived in my body for so long

:21:34. > :21:38.feeling upset with it and feeling bad about myself, I'd kind of

:21:38. > :21:41.gotten used to it in a way and didn't realise that I could feel as

:21:41. > :21:44.comfortable as I do now. Raphael decided to transition, by taking

:21:44. > :21:47.hormones and having surgery to be closer to the gender he felt he

:21:47. > :21:50.should have been. Bernard Reed set up a charity to research gender

:21:50. > :21:53.identity and has spent the past 15 years studying it.

:21:53. > :21:55.He says being trans is more common than we think. Generally society

:21:55. > :21:59.needs to be more aware that transgender people have a natural

:21:59. > :22:02.condition, which is to say that in their brains from the very earliest

:22:02. > :22:05.time, even pre-birth, if you like they are pre-programmed to have a

:22:05. > :22:07.sense of gender which differs from their bodies and many of them

:22:07. > :22:09.repress this. They can't very often do so

:22:09. > :22:12.completely because the feeling is very intense. And while repressing

:22:12. > :22:14.those feelings can be hard, telling your own family can be even more

:22:14. > :22:17.difficult. Ryan was born a girl but lost

:22:17. > :22:20.contact with his mum after she found out he was trans.

:22:20. > :22:23.I haven't spoken to my mum in nearly two years. I do understand

:22:23. > :22:26.that it's different for parents and I sympathise with parents. They

:22:26. > :22:30.don't believe that I'm the person they brought up. It's quite

:22:30. > :22:32.difficult to relate to that whem I am being told that I am not that

:22:32. > :22:34.person anymore, inside I am still the same, outwardly I look

:22:34. > :22:44.different. Growing up as a trans person can

:22:44. > :22:50.

:22:50. > :22:53.mean rejection from an early age. If they are revealed to be trans,

:22:53. > :22:56.then they do get isolated, they do get discriminated against, they do

:22:56. > :22:58.get attacked, now just think about the effect of that.

:22:59. > :23:01.A study conducted right here in Brighton suggests that

:23:01. > :23:04.discrimination and depression are just some of the reasons why trans

:23:04. > :23:08.people are at a higher risk of harming themselves.

:23:08. > :23:13.I was depressed as a ten year old and I actually did try and hurt

:23:13. > :23:23.myself. I did try and, I took some pills and I guess it was a suicide

:23:23. > :23:30.

:23:30. > :23:33.attempt. Some experts say the isolation and

:23:33. > :23:35.rejection trans people face can have a serious impact on mental

:23:35. > :23:37.health, Dr Kathryn Johnson is a gender identity experts

:23:37. > :23:40.fromBrightion University, she says the reasons for this are complex.

:23:40. > :23:46.Mental health generally for the entire population has to do with

:23:46. > :23:49.the social circumstances in which we find ourselves. Depression is

:23:49. > :23:52.often a response to the environment you are in and trans people,

:23:52. > :23:55.because of levels of discrimination, because of not passing as male or

:23:55. > :23:58.female which can affect employment, which can affect poverty levels and

:23:58. > :24:00.so on, it can then therefore increase the likelihood of having a

:24:00. > :24:03.mental health problem. And the outside world can be a

:24:03. > :24:06.scary place for trans people, feeling comfortable on the street

:24:06. > :24:16.is something most of us take for granted, but even in a fairly

:24:16. > :24:22.

:24:22. > :24:29.tolerant place like Brighton, there There are certain areas where I

:24:29. > :24:34.just don't go by myself, I have to take someone else with me.

:24:34. > :24:37.How do you feel about that? I feel it's very unfair, there are

:24:37. > :24:41.no areas that should be off-limits to anyone in Brighton and Hove.

:24:41. > :24:44.What kind of things happen? Well people often shout insults,

:24:44. > :24:47.they'll shout from car windows, they'll shout at you as they are

:24:47. > :24:49.walking down the street, it just makes me feel as if I'm unsafe

:24:49. > :24:52.while I'm here. What about in terms of violence,

:24:52. > :24:56.have you ever had any violence? Yes, just a bit further down the

:24:56. > :24:59.road from here I was attacked by someone. They pulled my hair, they

:24:59. > :25:02.tried to gauge my eye out, they kicked and punched me. It was a

:25:02. > :25:05.very bad attack. According to official figures over the past four

:25:05. > :25:09.years, there have been 45 recorded incidents of transgender hate crime

:25:09. > :25:12.in Sussex, 18 of which happened in Brighton and Hove.

:25:12. > :25:22.But Bernard Reed thinks the true figure could be much higher, he's

:25:22. > :25:26.

:25:26. > :25:29.doing a study to find out the extent of the problem.

:25:29. > :25:39.For some time now, we have been worried about the level of

:25:39. > :25:52.

:25:52. > :25:59.A trans woman was asked to face the wall in her office. In another

:25:59. > :26:04.situation, somebody in a work situation discovered the other

:26:04. > :26:14.person was trans and said, unless to provide sexual favours for me, I

:26:14. > :26:22.

:26:22. > :26:25.Michelle was made redundant from her job in IT after she

:26:25. > :26:27.transitioned. Unable to find employment, she had to set up her

:26:27. > :26:30.own company. I've been for interview where as

:26:30. > :26:33.soon as the interviewer realised I was trans he refused to shake my

:26:33. > :26:36.hand because he realised I was transgender. I've also had other

:26:36. > :26:39.interview where as soon as I've walked in and they've realised I'm

:26:39. > :26:40.transgender, they have straight away said I am not suitable for the

:26:40. > :26:43.position. Without even interviewing you?

:26:43. > :26:46.Without even interviewing me. challenges trans people face in

:26:46. > :26:48.Brighton are much the same up and down the country, but work is

:26:48. > :26:52.taking place to try and tackle discrimination and predjudice.

:26:52. > :26:55.And Michelle says the city is still one of the best places to live.

:26:55. > :26:58.There have been challenges in the past, but they are there to

:26:58. > :27:00.overcome. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, we just want to

:27:00. > :27:03.be accepted and treated like everyone else, every other member

:27:03. > :27:06.of society. We don't want any special treatment at all, in the

:27:06. > :27:09.future, I'm just hoping that everyone will be more accepting of

:27:09. > :27:12.And Raphael says changing his gender has made him happier than

:27:12. > :27:15.he's ever been. For me it was a do, or die

:27:15. > :27:18.situation and I really wanted to live, I wanted to experience what

:27:18. > :27:28.everyone else seems to be enjoying. I felt like I had kind of missed

:27:28. > :27:32.the point in life perhaps, you know. Finally I can see that life really

:27:32. > :27:42.is worth living because I feel happy in myself and for the first

:27:42. > :27:49.

:27:49. > :27:54.time in my life, I feel comfortable If you want any more information

:27:54. > :28:02.about tonight's show, you can go to our Kent or Sussex websites. You

:28:02. > :28:07.can also watch the whole show again by clicking on the iPlayer.

:28:07. > :28:12.Coming up next week... The police community support of this says of

:28:12. > :28:17.Brighton. 10 years on, are they still seen as plastic policemen? Or

:28:17. > :28:26.has the idea worked? When I am not getting rid of 15

:28:27. > :28:36.street drinkers, the police officer is out arresting somebody. Trace in

:28:37. > :28:37.

:28:38. > :28:43.the M siestas of Eastbourne. You just don't know what you are