Maxine Heron knows first-hand the impact visibility and community can have. Now a communications officer for the charity Not A Phase, as well as a model and speaker, she says transitioning as a teenager and coming out online as a trans woman in 2018 changed her life completely.
“At school I was bullied terribly every single day,” she says. “Most nights I went to bed wishing I wouldn’t wake up the next morning because of how other people made me feel.”
