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Deceiving the old and vulnerable - the company that promises prizes | :00:02. | :00:12. | |
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that never arrive. They found a sucker. They are conmen. They don't | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
care. The bugs from abroad that are eating our woods. If we don't act | :00:22. | :00:31. | |
soon, we will end up with jest And girls will be boys and boys | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
will be girls. But how tough is it being transgender? Life was | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
unbearable not to live as Michele. I was a classic tomboy. I didn't | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
like wearing dresses. I'm Natalie Graham with untold | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
stories, closer to home. From all round Kent and Sussex, this is | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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Hello, I'm in Bedgebury Pinetum. I She is 85 years old and a widow. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
Her son died seven years ago. After the trauma of his early death, she | :01:33. | :01:42. | |
started chasing a cash prize which doesn't exist. She thought she had | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
when tens of thousands of pounds because mail order companies wrote | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
to her telling her she was a nature. Companies like this. All she had to | :01:54. | :02:03. | |
do was place orders with them. tells me and I have won �40,000. | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
You can't blame me for trying to get it. | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
She wrote to the companies that were promising to give her the | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
money. Over the years, instead of winning thousands, she has spent | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
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thousands. Why has she carried on? I was alone in the House and felt | :02:35. | :02:45. | |
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this would be lovely. She had no reason to believe it was not true. | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
Why wouldn't I believe it? They don't supply the prize and you go | :02:57. | :03:06. | |
on ordering. She is not alone. We have heard from people across the | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
country. Hundreds of people have run to the company. We have | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
evidence to prove their letters were destroyed it by the UK nerve | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
centre of this massive mail-order scam. We thought it was time people | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
being can't have their fur -- voices heard. | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
They are clearly not reading the letters. Dear friends, I enclose my | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
order. I am in a wheelchair, have had two heart attacks, I am a | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
diabetic and very lonely. The only people I see are the nurse twice a | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
week to change the dressings on my legs and the doctor every week. I | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
don't see anyone, I pay for some treatment that would help me walk | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
again. One employee whose job it was to | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
have been the customers' letters were so appalled that she went | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
under cover with a camera to show what happens. Making sure I can't | :04:14. | :04:24. | |
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see anything. A French man promises surprises in that order for and the | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
chance to win money. Several people thought they had one. I thought it | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
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can't be right. People write in. It People are confused and asking | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
about the prize and why they haven't got it. A lot of people say | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
they need the money. They are asking about it. All of these | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
things, I have to throw away. to see some of the people behind | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
this business. Many of the companies are owned by the same | :05:10. | :05:20. | |
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person, a wealthy French man who leaves a UK -- who needs a UK | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
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address. You might know David if you're member of the Royal | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
Southampton Yacht club based here or the Royal Southern Yacht Club | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
based in Hamble. You see David Gebbett's a keen sailor. That's his | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
yacht over there, moored nice and close to his bolt hole here in | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Ocean Village. His son Nick Gebbett, lives in Norfolk. He's big into | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
Skiing. He's on Twitter if you want to follow him. Latest tweet - | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
something about taking the cat to the vets. I digress, no tweets as | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
yet about running a company involved with a mass marketing scam. | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
This is David and this is Nick who appears to be in charge. While they | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
throw away most letters they receive, Nick did get the letter we | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
sent in. He replied they would only as our questions in a statement if | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
they used it in full and unedited. We want to hear their side of the | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
story but we can't go giving promises like that to anyone. I | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
needed to know why they thought it was OK to do the dirty work for a | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
French scanner. For what were the chances of that? | :06:44. | :06:54. | |
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I managed to bump into David. I am from BBC Inside Out. Can I ask why | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
your company continues to cash cheques of vulnerable people? You | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
know what is going on. I can't answer questions. We have sent a | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
statement to you. Your staff have been instructed to shred their | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
letters. That is not good customer service. I can't comment. Why do | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
you continue to have dealings with the company that is ripping these | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
people off? I can't comment on that. I have to go. What do you say to | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
these people that of being taken for a ride? You can stop it | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
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happening. Some other company would do it. That doesn't make it right. | :07:42. | :07:52. | |
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You have nothing to say? Surely you owe them something. There we go. If | :07:53. | :08:03. | |
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they didn't do it, somebody else would. Does that make it right? | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
She is left bewildered and often tearful. | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
When I am not with people, I often cry. They have found a sucker. They | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
are conmen. They don't care. The jails are full of them. People hurt | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
-- people who hurt others. The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
has asked to see at evidence as they say they are keen to take | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
action on any companies that operate to deceive members of the | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
public. My message to companies is that you are on borrowed time. | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
job in the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau is to close in | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
to stop you operating, to bring you to justice and to make sure you are | :08:49. | :08:59. | |
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seen as part of that criminal conspiracy. As my number is the | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
winning number. I hope you will pay me. I am living on hope. My work | :09:08. | :09:18. | |
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here is done. We have truly given Coming up, life can be tough if you | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
are Trans gender. Further down the road I was attacked by someone. | :09:26. | :09:36. | |
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They pulled my hair, tried to gouge my it eyes out. Now, we all know | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
the expression, you can't see the wood for the trees. But there's | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
growing concern that in some places in the South East, we may soon not | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
being able to see the trees for the bugs, and if we don't take action | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
now we may not see the woods at all. They make England green and | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
pleasant. They give us seasons of colour, have been with us since we | :09:57. | :10:07. | |
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were children and are even planted Trees are essential to life as we | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
know it. Every root, every branch has an important role to play. But | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
there is a hidden threat to our trees, something that silently | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
kills often going unnoticed. If we don't act soon, we are going to end | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
up with a landscape that looks like a moonscape, just sort of scrub | :10:27. | :10:36. | |
Pests and diseases, are threatening the very existence of the trees | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
that we love. This year 4,500 trees in Paddock Wood in Kent have had to | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
be been felled and burned. The cause of all this destruction is a | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
beetle around three cm long. It's called the Asian Long Horn beetle, | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
and it's thought to have travelled here on wood packaging imported | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
from China. The beetle larvae causes the damage by burrowing | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
inside the bark, eating the wood and killing the tree or leaving it | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
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susceptible to other disease. Both the Forestry Commission and | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
the Food and Environment Agency are desperate to stop it spreading. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
They have even brought in sniffer dogs from Austria to hunt down any | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
traces of the insect that may remain. | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
In 2009, we started the detection with the dogs. Sometimes you cannot | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
see the symptoms, maybe because of the height or because they are | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
hidden by some shrubs or something else. So we decided to try the | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
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detection by the dogs method. why has there been an increase in | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
the number of pests and diseases entering our country over the past | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
few years? Many believe it's due to the introduction of free trade | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
between EU countries. With EU imports, you've got this | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
business of having free and unfettered trade between nations, | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
so the normal strict quarantine rules are modified and slackened to | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
allow this to happen. And of course you get free trade in goods and | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
services which is what Brussels wants but you also get free trade | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
in pests and diseases as well. can't be that easy though. The | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
amount of timber and plant material coming into this country, you're | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
never going to be able to stop a tiny beetle or a latent disease. | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
You can if you have the proper quarantine measures. And if it's a | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
really dangerous situation, you do what they do with some plant | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
material from places like the United States, and China, and South | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
Africa. If there's a really serious problem in these countries, they | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
just don't allow the things to come in. So is the government doing | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
enough? Martin Ward is responsible for co- | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
ordinating plant health policy across the UK. | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
You're the man at the top when it comes to containing what's been | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
described as a crisis. Is it a crisis? | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Well we've always had new arrivals, and it'll be impossible to keep | :13:18. | :13:28. | |
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everything out. People were to be able to move plants around and | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
import exotic plants for their gardens. | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
It is not so simple as to be able to stop all of that. But there are | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
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importing killers of our tree So these pests and diseases are | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
threatening our landscapes and our commercial woodlands. But there's a | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
bigger risk. It's not just the trees health, It's our health too. | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Another pest that has been imported into England is the oak | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
processionary moth. It's thought to have arrived on oak trees from a | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
Dutch nursery in 2005.The infested trees had eggs on the branches | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
which are very hard to spot, even with an expert eye. Once hatched | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
the caterpillar produces thousands of toxic hairs. They can kill | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
animals, give people a nasty rash and in rare cases, cause much more | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
severe symptoms. You can get severe itching, you can get dermatitis, | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
pharyngitis, laryngitis. There are cases now where there are | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
schools in Germany where they're frightened to open the windows for | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
the pupils in summer because they're frightened of the toxic | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
hairs coming in. In Bromley in Kent, there has been an outbreak of oak | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
prosessionary moth and tree surgeon Mike Townsend is working to control | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
Some trees are completely clean, and the tree next to it could have | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
60 or 70 nests in it. And on this site so far, we've removed in | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
excess of 1200 nests. So far it's been treated as a tree health | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
problem hence why all the action is being led by the Forestry | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
Commission. However, on the continent, it is primarily treated | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
as a public health issue and if something is treated as a public | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
health issue that automatically increases the political will, the | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
resources available, the public awareness which will then help with | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
managing it. In Germany, the government pays for the removal of | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
oak processionary moth, but in the UK if you find a nest in your | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
garden, you have to pay to remove Local Authorities have to pay if | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
it's in a public place. Dr Mabbett believes that cost means | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
action is often avoided, he wants the Government to do more. If the | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
government had spent a few hundred thousand pounds back in 2006 to | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
control a few infested trees in Ealing and Richmond, look at the | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
savings they could have made. Oak processionary moth has been in | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
this country for about six years. If you'd taken swifter action, we | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
wouldn't be in this situation now. Well, you can always do more, and | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
we have to work within the resources that we have available, | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
and the action that's been taken on oak processionary moth with | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
landowners is working at limiting the spread of it now. | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
We don't expect to be able to eradicate oak processionary moth | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
from west London, but we are intending to limit the spread and | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
to eradicate outlying outbreaks where those occur, with the work | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
largely of the Forestry Commission in that case, with oak | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
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processionary moth. We're working also with the Health Protection | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
Agency because of the health implications of oak processionary | :16:39. | :16:48. | |
moth. Over at the Hop Farm in Paddock | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
Wood, local school children are planting new trees to replace the | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
ones that were chopped down because of the Asian Long Horn Beetle. | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
Hop farm have chosen the apple tree, because it's much less prone to | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
attack from the beetle. And they will continue to keep a look out | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
for the bug. The Hop farm have chosen the apple tree, because it's | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
not a favourite of the beetles. And they will continue to keep a | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
lookout for the bug. Now Chalara Ash dieback has been discovered in | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
the UK's countryside the government is expected to ban imports of ash | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
trees next month. It's hoped this will prevent the decimation of ash | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
woodland that was seen in Denmark when 90 % of their ash trees were | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
killed off by the deadly fungus. Maybe it's time to be more vigilant | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
when it comes to protecting our trees from unwelcome pests and | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
diseases I'm like millions and millions of people in this country, | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
I love my native natural woodlands. And I would say to people the way | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
things are going, if you really appreciate your woodlands and you | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
want to remember what they look like you get out and you look at | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
them now. Because the way things are going, they will look | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
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completely different in 20 years We may think we live in a liberal | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
society, but what is life like if you are a gal who wants to live as | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
a buyer, or vice versa? -- A girl who wants to live as a | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
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boy. You're either a boy or a girl, but | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
there are some people who are in between. But while many of us tend | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
to think of the world as male or female, it's clear it's not as | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
simple as that and experts have discovered whole range of | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
identities in between. We might tend to think of the world as male, | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
or female/girl or boy. But there are people who are in between and | :18:45. | :18:55. | |
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some who want to become the other. They match grey is a fear and their | :19:05. | :19:14. | |
hostility. -- in there is beefier. | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
Gender dyshoria is the medical term for when people feel anxious about | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
their gender. Some people say they feel trapped in the wrong body and | :19:21. | :19:31. | |
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for many the pain of this can be unbearable. Michelle Nall knew was | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
born male, but it was an identity she didn't recognise. | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
I've known there was something different about me ever since I was | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
five, or six years old, I didn't know what it was back then | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
obviously, but as I got older I started to realise. It wasn't until | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
my later years that I knew I wanted to wear women's clothes and wanted | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
to change gender, but it's so unacceptable to do that. I had to | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
try and live in a male role. I've had a son, I've tried to get | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
married and just live in a male role. It's such a dark time though, | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
the depression is so bad, I just couldn't do it anymore and had to | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
come and change my gender. I've lost most of my friends through it, | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
I had struggles with my family with it as well. | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
It's a very difficult time physchologically as well as a | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
physical changes as well, it's very difficult to explain but you are | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
not born in the body you should be. Experts say changing your gender | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
can mean widespread discrimination and that life in general for trans | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
people can be a lot worse than we might think. Raphael Fox was born a | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
female, but always felt he should have been a boy. | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
What was going through my mind was just general unhappiness, I felt | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
uncomfortable with myself, I couldn't do all the normal things I | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
wanted to do, for example, as a child maybe six years old or | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
whatever. Our family would go out to the | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
local supermarket and I'd make friends round there and me and the | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
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guys would hang out. I had my hair cut short, so I don't think they | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
really recognised that I was female and at the end of the playdate, | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
hang out or whatever. They would say, "well what's your name?". I | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
would be like, "er Rachel, "and it gave me away and I felt embarrassed | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
about it. It's such an odd thing to look back and think I really was | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
that unhappy and that uncomfortable in my own body. It's something I | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
can't really describe, I think I only realised how uncomfortable I | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
was in my own skin until I started to do something about it and I | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
started to feel better about myself. I'd lived in my body for so long | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
feeling upset with it and feeling bad about myself, I'd kind of | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
gotten used to it in a way and didn't realise that I could feel as | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
comfortable as I do now. Raphael decided to transition, by taking | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
hormones and having surgery to be closer to the gender he felt he | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
should have been. Bernard Reed set up a charity to research gender | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
identity and has spent the past 15 years studying it. | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
He says being trans is more common than we think. Generally society | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
needs to be more aware that transgender people have a natural | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
condition, which is to say that in their brains from the very earliest | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
time, even pre-birth, if you like they are pre-programmed to have a | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
sense of gender which differs from their bodies and many of them | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
repress this. They can't very often do so | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
completely because the feeling is very intense. And while repressing | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
those feelings can be hard, telling your own family can be even more | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
difficult. Ryan was born a girl but lost | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
contact with his mum after she found out he was trans. | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
I haven't spoken to my mum in nearly two years. I do understand | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
that it's different for parents and I sympathise with parents. They | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
don't believe that I'm the person they brought up. It's quite | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
difficult to relate to that whem I am being told that I am not that | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
person anymore, inside I am still the same, outwardly I look | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
different. Growing up as a trans person can | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
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mean rejection from an early age. If they are revealed to be trans, | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
then they do get isolated, they do get discriminated against, they do | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
get attacked, now just think about the effect of that. | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
A study conducted right here in Brighton suggests that | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
discrimination and depression are just some of the reasons why trans | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
people are at a higher risk of harming themselves. | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
I was depressed as a ten year old and I actually did try and hurt | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
myself. I did try and, I took some pills and I guess it was a suicide | :23:13. | :23:23. | |
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attempt. Some experts say the isolation and | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
rejection trans people face can have a serious impact on mental | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
health, Dr Kathryn Johnson is a gender identity experts | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
fromBrightion University, she says the reasons for this are complex. | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
Mental health generally for the entire population has to do with | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
the social circumstances in which we find ourselves. Depression is | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
often a response to the environment you are in and trans people, | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
because of levels of discrimination, because of not passing as male or | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
female which can affect employment, which can affect poverty levels and | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
so on, it can then therefore increase the likelihood of having a | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
mental health problem. And the outside world can be a | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
scary place for trans people, feeling comfortable on the street | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
is something most of us take for granted, but even in a fairly | :24:06. | :24:16. | |
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tolerant place like Brighton, there There are certain areas where I | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
just don't go by myself, I have to take someone else with me. | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
How do you feel about that? I feel it's very unfair, there are | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
no areas that should be off-limits to anyone in Brighton and Hove. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
What kind of things happen? Well people often shout insults, | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
they'll shout from car windows, they'll shout at you as they are | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
walking down the street, it just makes me feel as if I'm unsafe | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
while I'm here. What about in terms of violence, | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
have you ever had any violence? Yes, just a bit further down the | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
road from here I was attacked by someone. They pulled my hair, they | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
tried to gauge my eye out, they kicked and punched me. It was a | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
very bad attack. According to official figures over the past four | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
years, there have been 45 recorded incidents of transgender hate crime | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
in Sussex, 18 of which happened in Brighton and Hove. | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
But Bernard Reed thinks the true figure could be much higher, he's | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
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doing a study to find out the extent of the problem. | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
For some time now, we have been worried about the level of | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
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A trans woman was asked to face the wall in her office. In another | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
situation, somebody in a work situation discovered the other | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
person was trans and said, unless to provide sexual favours for me, I | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
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Michelle was made redundant from her job in IT after she | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
transitioned. Unable to find employment, she had to set up her | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
own company. I've been for interview where as | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
soon as the interviewer realised I was trans he refused to shake my | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
hand because he realised I was transgender. I've also had other | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
interview where as soon as I've walked in and they've realised I'm | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
transgender, they have straight away said I am not suitable for the | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
position. Without even interviewing you? | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
Without even interviewing me. challenges trans people face in | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
Brighton are much the same up and down the country, but work is | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
taking place to try and tackle discrimination and predjudice. | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
And Michelle says the city is still one of the best places to live. | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
There have been challenges in the past, but they are there to | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
overcome. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, we just want to | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
be accepted and treated like everyone else, every other member | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
of society. We don't want any special treatment at all, in the | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
future, I'm just hoping that everyone will be more accepting of | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
And Raphael says changing his gender has made him happier than | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
he's ever been. For me it was a do, or die | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
situation and I really wanted to live, I wanted to experience what | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
everyone else seems to be enjoying. I felt like I had kind of missed | :27:18. | :27:28. | |
the point in life perhaps, you know. Finally I can see that life really | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
is worth living because I feel happy in myself and for the first | :27:32. | :27:42. | |
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time in my life, I feel comfortable If you want any more information | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
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Coming up next week... The police community support of this says of | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
Brighton. 10 years on, are they still seen as plastic policemen? Or | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
has the idea worked? When I am not getting rid of 15 | :28:17. | :28:26. | |
street drinkers, the police officer is out arresting somebody. Trace in | :28:27. | :28:36. | |
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the M siestas of Eastbourne. You just don't know what you are | :28:38. | :28:43. |