CORONATION Street made history with Hayley Cropper in 1998 - and we need her again. Soaps have the power to demystify subjects, to shine a light of sections of society who would otherwise be hidden and shunned.
In 1998 they did that for trans people - with the iconic Hayley making her debut. The way things are going now for the trans community, you’d think she never existed.
Let’s be really clear here - in a recent survey, just seven per cent of Tory voters thought that trans people should be something the Government prioritised.
There is a cost of living crisis, an energy bill time bomb waiting to go off, our NHS is under-funded and buckling under pressure - but we’ve got politicians falling over themselves to prove how ‘anti-woke’ they are.
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