:00:11. > :00:14.Living with the wrong gender. on BBC Two.
:00:15. > :00:23.A huge surge in the number of people seeking help from the NHS.
:00:24. > :00:29.Now I have a future, whereas before I didn't really see a future of the
:00:30. > :00:31.Celebrities send their best wishes to a footballer
:00:32. > :00:42.And a higher chance that more areas will drop below freezing tonight,
:00:43. > :00:45.but equally a higher chance of UCD sunshine tomorrow. Details at the
:00:46. > :00:50.A man from Bristol says he feels he's stuck in a woman's body
:00:51. > :00:53.after being forced to wait for NHS treatment to change gender.
:00:54. > :00:56.There are now ten times more referrals per month than a decade
:00:57. > :00:59.ago for the procedure and the health service is struggling to cope
:01:00. > :01:04.Our Social Affairs Correspondent Fiona Lamdin has been to meet
:01:05. > :01:12.It's a tight fabric vest which holds in my hips,
:01:13. > :01:15.because I have quite wide hips, and it holds my
:01:16. > :01:25.21-year-old Jay binds his body to flatten his chest and hips.
:01:26. > :01:31.Born as a girl and called Jade, his female frame repluses him.
:01:32. > :01:35.Whenever I go to the toilet, I have to sit down, and in the shower I
:01:36. > :01:37.have to see breasts, which shouldn't be there.
:01:38. > :01:42.What age did you know you were in the wrong body?
:01:43. > :01:45.Nursery reception time, when I started noticing
:01:46. > :01:49.I liked playing with cars and trucks.
:01:50. > :01:56.In this school prom photo, at aged nine, Jade was the only girl
:01:57. > :02:03.I was teased a lot for looking different and...
:02:04. > :02:10.Secondary school, the bullying got a bit more physical and a
:02:11. > :02:17.That was one of your first days at nursery, that was.
:02:18. > :02:22.Jay had already tried to take his own life.
:02:23. > :02:24.I took us ages to get those photos of you,
:02:25. > :02:33.I found it quite hard, especially with the Jay
:02:34. > :02:38.With everybody else really getting on board quite quickly with Jay
:02:39. > :02:43.wanting to be known as Jay and he and him...
:02:44. > :02:47.I still, now and again, have a few slip-ups now and again.
:02:48. > :02:48.He registered for NHS hormone therapy treatment,
:02:49. > :02:54.It's an 18-month wait for an operation and he's still
:02:55. > :02:59.I feel like I'm in limbo, as it were.
:03:00. > :03:06.Frustrated by the wait, he's now taken to social media
:03:07. > :03:09.to try to crowdfund the money to go privately.
:03:10. > :03:15.Miles and females being treated on our West of England are referred
:03:16. > :03:19.to the Specialist Gender Identity Clinic in Exeter
:03:20. > :03:23.and according to the clinic, five years ago they have just
:03:24. > :03:31.It then takes 18 months for a patient to go
:03:32. > :03:37.from their first appointment to life-changing surgery.
:03:38. > :03:41.Steffi Barnett is a radio presenter in Bristol.
:03:42. > :03:44.You were four when you knew you were the wrong gender,
:03:45. > :03:59.What was that like? Quite scary, really. Once you start getting the
:04:00. > :04:03.bullying and the teacher fitted you into the mailbox, when you're four
:04:04. > :04:09.years old, you don't understand. I didn't know there was an issue. It
:04:10. > :04:15.the issue. You are playing in the the issue. You are playing in the
:04:16. > :04:21.house with the girls. The teacher says, now, you can't. You have to
:04:22. > :04:27.play with the boys. The girl CU have to be daddy, not mummy. They may get
:04:28. > :04:29.confused. Your head is wired completely differently to what
:04:30. > :04:35.are telling you. You transitioned are telling you. You transitioned
:04:36. > :04:42.out 50 years old. You please note that more young people are coming
:04:43. > :04:50.forward? Absolutely. The more people come forward and have support than
:04:51. > :04:53.the left suicide, mental must and self harm that we will have. A lot
:04:54. > :04:59.of people are saying that referrals of people are saying that referrals
:05:00. > :05:04.have gone up at a time when the NHS is under serious pressure. Cancer
:05:05. > :05:14.patients per morning the fact that people want to have a gender real
:05:15. > :05:20.information. What you have to think about is that a third of those kids
:05:21. > :05:24.will commit suicide, self harm or become depressed. Our those parents
:05:25. > :05:30.going to feel when their child commits suicide by sites health
:05:31. > :05:34.harming? All the needed support. One of the support organisations that
:05:35. > :05:38.covers the nation is therefore children who have gender dysphoria.
:05:39. > :05:47.Look like you tackle the subject in your radio show. What kind of advice
:05:48. > :05:54.are you getting? We get guests in to give advice. We pushed people out
:05:55. > :06:05.into these organisations. We do help by getting specialist guests in.
:06:06. > :06:10.It's on every Thursday on BDSM and five other stations. With five being
:06:11. > :06:15.like sensitising children? For me, just before I claimed the wall,
:06:16. > :06:16.there was a horrible moment, because you never know what's going to
:06:17. > :06:31.happen around the corner. My family and friends were very
:06:32. > :06:36.supportive. I used to be a bit of a loner and now my family and friends
:06:37. > :06:39.either for me and I do the job that I love that I'm a lucky one.
:06:40. > :06:42.The former England footballer Alan Shearer is the latest sporting
:06:43. > :06:44.celebrity to send messages of support to a scaffolder
:06:45. > :06:46.from Swindon, who suffered a severe electric shock and nearly died.
:06:47. > :06:49.Jamie Mines lost both his arms and a leg following
:06:50. > :06:58.Hi, Jamie, I know you're going through a very,
:06:59. > :07:00.very difficult time, so I just wanted to say,
:07:01. > :07:03.I'm thinking of you, I wish you all the best,
:07:04. > :07:05.I've heard you're a tough'un so I'm pretty sure you're
:07:06. > :07:09.This is to raise money for Jamie Mines, who's had
:07:10. > :07:14.I know you've got the whole of the South West football
:07:15. > :07:16.community behind you, but on behalf of 5Live Sport
:07:17. > :07:21.and Match Of The Day 2, we wish you all the very best.
:07:22. > :07:25.The support from the sporting world for Jamie Mines just keeps coming.
:07:26. > :07:28.Over Christmas, he lost both of his arms and one of his legs
:07:29. > :07:37.His presents are still under the tree.
:07:38. > :07:44.His little twin daughters, haven't seen him since.
:07:45. > :07:46.But friends say messages from some of his idols are sure
:07:47. > :07:49.to raise his spirits, and raise money.
:07:50. > :07:52.I'm donating a signed pair of boxing gloves and boxing shorts.
:07:53. > :07:59.I think we often think our heroes or footballing legends, you know,
:08:00. > :08:02.you kind of put them on a pedestal, but for them to take the time
:08:03. > :08:08.and effort to send a message to Jamie means a huge amount to him
:08:09. > :08:16.Jamie is still in intensive care here at Southmead but he is awake
:08:17. > :08:18.and able to talk every now and again.
:08:19. > :08:20.I spoke to his girlfriend today, who understandably doesn't
:08:21. > :08:23.want to be in front of a camera at the moment.
:08:24. > :08:26.But she said both she and Jamie had been overwhelmed
:08:27. > :08:30.She said he's able to sit on the edge of his bed to do
:08:31. > :08:32.exercises and that doctors had started talking about skin
:08:33. > :08:39.She even said that on her last visit here, Jamie had managed to hug
:08:40. > :08:45.?67,000 has already been raised for Jamie but his friends and family
:08:46. > :08:48.want to make that 100,000, and eventually, to get him home to
:08:49. > :08:57.It seems some of his heroes feel the same.
:08:58. > :09:09.The Somerset explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been forced
:09:10. > :09:12.to abandon his attempt to climb one of the highest mountains
:09:13. > :09:18.He was in sight of the peak when he had to be airlifted from
:09:19. > :09:22.He was was raising money for Marie Curie by attempting
:09:23. > :09:27.to become the first man to climb the highest peaks on each continent.
:09:28. > :09:30.Syrian refugee families living in Bath have held a big fund-raising
:09:31. > :09:35.meal to say thank you to the city for helping them.
:09:36. > :09:37.They arrived in Bath last year from camps
:09:38. > :09:39.in the Lebanon and were resettled under a Government initiative.
:09:40. > :09:46.They've been cooking a meal for 60, in kitchens around the city.
:09:47. > :10:00.Let's take you to the forecast then, as we head on into tomorrow.
:10:01. > :10:02.There's been some beautiful sunset photos
:10:03. > :10:04.sent by many of you, including through Twitter.
:10:05. > :10:05.This one, conversely, taken earlier in the
:10:06. > :10:09.It shows a very nice delineation between areas
:10:10. > :10:11.under cloud and those seeing quite the opposite with a lot of
:10:12. > :10:16.And as we head into tomorrow, we will have more of the same, but
:10:17. > :10:17.if anything, actually, the balance shifting
:10:18. > :10:20.across the region to more in the way of the brighter, sunnier
:10:21. > :10:23.variety of weather with the cloud cover attending to get squashed
:10:24. > :10:27.are shaping up. look at how things
:10:28. > :10:29.How pressure dominates the pattern and it all
:10:30. > :10:31.shifts slightly as he head to the next few days,
:10:32. > :10:34.but broadly speaking, that means a lot of dry and settled
:10:35. > :10:38.That's reflected by the temperature there. We could get as low as -4 -5
:10:39. > :10:40.is of the spots in the countryside. Holding perhaps just above freezing.
:10:41. > :10:45.Nuances aside, a cold start tomorrow morning and for many of you, if your
:10:46. > :10:50.amount of sunshine around. You see there are towards the north, a
:10:51. > :10:54.signal for a cloud, don't take the position to literally, but it could
:10:55. > :10:59.well be that part of Gloucestershire are roundabout. Late winter assault.
:11:00. > :11:00.Remaining dry and perhaps more anyway of cloud starting to affect
:11:01. > :11:06.Easter in areas later in the day. next few days, no great changes over
:11:07. > :11:13.the next few days, more sunshine on the way.
:11:14. > :11:20.Despite high-pressure sitting across the country so only slow changes in
:11:21. > :11:26.the weather, we have had a variety of different weathers, for example
:11:27. > :11:28.this beautiful sunset in Southampton which was shared by a Weather
:11:29. > :11:29.Watcher,