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Name: | Matt Hood |
Age: | 16 |
Year of the Fix: | 2017 |
Location: | Livingston, West Lothian |
Campaign: | To educate teens on what it's like to be transgender |
When I was 14, I realised I was transgender – I’d been wrongly born into a female body.
It meant I had to explain to all of my friends and family that I was going to transition to living as a boy, then I changed my name from Vicky to Matt and asked people to call me ‘he’ and not ‘she’.
When the news spread at school, a group of bullies started to regularly attack me for being transgender. It all came to a head one day when they all grouped together, calling me names and throwing things at me.
Now I want to help future transgender teens to avoid the kind of bullying I experienced, and I believe education is the best way to fight prejudice.
I’m working to educate schoolchildren about it means to be transgender, and the issues and challenges faced by teenagers like me - I believe that if people knew more, they’d be more understanding.
The following Fixers helped me with this Fix -
Jena McClelland
Shannon Knight
Joshua Morris
Drew Stratton
Gail Hope and Ian Kerr from James Young High School supported me with this Fix.
Lauren Taylor
Fixers
Hannah Carter
Tilly and Bella
Kiki
Ben Simms
Sam Womack
Hannah Baker
Chelsie Brown
'Kate'
Becky
Alexandra Garrick
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
Macauley Collinson
Olivia G
Jo Quinn
Mason Latey