Here is a very good article from today's Sunday Times :
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fleabag-star-i-wanted-to-be-a-boy-26tmzpqxs?shareToken=f142f5bbbafd38c3bdd1ad89975c80e5&wgu=270525_54264_1558289935916_5455173757&wgexpiry=1566065935&utm_source=planit&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=22278
Phoebe Waller-Bridge was such a tomboy as a child that she has said that if she were growing up today she would have “jumped” at the chance to become a transgender boy.
The actress and writer, 33, who scripted Fleabag and Killing Eve, which won three Baftas last week, revealed that when she was six she rebelled against her friends who loved dolls and dresses, and instead shaved off all her hair, started wearing boy’s clothing, and demanded that her parents call her “Alex”.
Waller-Bridge took pride in being able to convince people that she was a young boy: “I remember going into Gap once when I was about seven and the guy coming up to me when I was with my mum and he said, ‘So what does the young man want?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, convinced’.”
The comments will reignite the debate about whether girls who do not conform to gender stereotypes and would once simply have been considered tomboys are instead being encouraged to believe they may be transgender.
The number of children attending London’s Tavistock centre, the country’s only NHS transgender clinic for children, has risen 25-fold to more than 2,356 since 2009.
The number of those who were assigned female at birth has ballooned and accounts for the overwhelming majority of cases.
Asked whether her boyish ways would mean that she would be considered trans if she was a child today, Waller-Bridge said: “I mean there’s the tomboy kind of thing . . . I was very fervent about it when I was younger.
“It was like I just desperately wanted to be a boy more than anything else. If it had been taken seriously by my school or something or those options had been given to me, I probably would’ve jumped at it.”
Her five-year phase of wanting to be a boy ended aged 11 when she went to boarding school and asked friends and family to start calling her Phoebe again. “I went to a boarding school for a year and a half, two years,” she told America’s NPR radio. “I wasn’t thinking about either being a boy or being a girl. But then I discovered boys in a big way. And one in particular — I remember meeting a boy and then suddenly becoming really aware that I looked sort of boyish myself and that he probably didn’t like that. And that was the kind of crossover point.”
The actress, who has handed over scriptwriting duties for the second series of Killing Eve to Emerald Fennell, has been working on livening up the script for the upcoming James Bond movie, at the request of Daniel Craig. She said she still has “the same impulse” to be a boy “all the time”.
“I still feel more comfortable in a hoodie and jeans than I ever do in little kitten heels and a flowy skirt,” she said.
After repeatedly being refused appointments, this transwoman filed complaints with a human rights tribunal against at least seven salons accusing them of discrimination, which led Meghan Murphy to discuss the matter on Twitter. Some of these beauticians were working out of their homes and had their names published, whilst the trans woman who brought the charges against them retained her anonymity. Meanwhile whilst she has been banned for misgendering which is "hateful conduct", Ms Murphy herself has received countless violent threats, which it seems is permissible 
