However, compared to the plethora of gay and lesbian voices on TV, trans representation is still relatively hard to come by. That’s not to say it doesn’t exist, though: here are four shows that featured trans people in all their nuance and complexity.
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With a Ring doorbell, anyone can be a detective.
Presenter Matt Allwright, best known for his work on Watchdog, is now turning his focus to the next-generation of crime-catching technology.
Lees was widely praised for her brutally honest account of her upbringing as a teenage boy called Byron in the "small-minded" town of Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, as well as for capturing the Y2K era in all its pre-internet nostalgia.
Now she is re-telling the story across an eight-part series, which will be directed by Chris Sweeney (The Tourist).
As Byron, Lees felt stuck in her small working-class town that was still struggling after the closure of its coal mine in the 1980s, and felt sick of her parents and being beaten up for "talkin' like a poof."
