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The soap Hollyoaks is about to introduce a challenging new storyline about Jasmine, the girl who wants to be Jason. Can it help change attitudes to transgender teens?

By Viv Groskop

Thursday 1 July 2010

‘From the age of about eight I knew something wasn’t right with me,” says Benson, a 17-year-old from Cumbria. “But it was never an issue because I was just a kid having fun. When I hit puberty and started growing breasts, I looked at other boys and thought, No – that’s the way I am supposed to be. I had no idea what transgender was. The internet helped a lot and I began to read blogs. I never came out to my family; they just guessed, really.” At 16, he went to the doctor….Continue Reading