Kim Thomas

When Sinead Watson had a double mastectomy in June 2017 at the age of 26, she was initially 'quite euphoric.' Although born female, she had been taking testosterone for two years and was using the name Sean. The mastectomy, or 'top surgery', was the last step on her transition. 'I was so glad that I’d finally got it done – no more binders, no more being paranoid that I was a man with boobs –  so I did feel really good about it,' she says. After the surgery, however, she discovered she had no sensation at all in her chest area, something that continues to this day. 'I realised after about five months my depression and self-hatred was still present, and that the surgery didn't ‘cure’ me like I thought,' she says.

Why are the police wasting time arresting Twitter transphobes when they could be tackling knife crime? That was the question asked by Boris Johnson in an article for the Daily Telegraph last February, in which he lambasted officers for arresting a mum for sending some rude tweets. A year on, Boris Johnson is Prime Minister. And now that mum has a criminal record. Today’s judgement was a hard sight to bear: a 39-year-old mother of two children, one of whom is autistic, listened as the judge at St Albans Magistrates’ Court found her guilty, under the Communications Act (2003), of using a public communications network to “cause annoyance, inconvenience and anxiety”.