My Trans Life

In the first of a two part series we meet Dubliner Nicky (22) who has suffered from social anxiety and depression since he was a teenager. Gendered female at birth, Nicky struggled with his gender identity for most of his early life.

On July 2015 Irish citizens were given the right to change their legal gender based on self-identification alone, without medical or state intervention, making Ireland a global leader in trans-rights and one of just five countries in the world that has legislation based on self-determination.