Britain felt safer for trans people in the nineties, says UK’s first trans judge

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Giving her first interview since she began the process of taking the government to the European Court of Human Rights, Dr McCloud tells Millie Cooke she no longer sees the UK as a ‘safe place’ for trans people

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Britain felt like a safer place to be trans in the nineties than it does now, the UK’s first transgender judge has said, raising the alarm over what she sees as a backslide in attitudes towards trans people.