We’re chasing queer children right back into the closet

‘I feel like you feel,’ a nine-year-old student told me recently.

‘I don’t fit into a box that everyone else seems to fit into. I don’t like doing normal girl things. I like football and wearing boys’ clothes.’

It was the start of last year and I was speaking to a group of roughly 60 Year 5 and 6 children at a primary school in Sussex about my gender identity as part of my role as Workshops Lead for Pop’n’Olly ...