When I tell people from other countries where I come from, they always ask what it’s like to be a trans man in such a small place. There is an assumption that the more cosmopolitan a place is, the more cultural influences it absorbs, the more tolerant it is. I’m not sure this is true. Our LGBTQ police liaison officers tell me that our hate crime figures are so low as to be almost zero and that’s not because incidents have gone unreported. It simply doesn’t happen here. The LGBTQ population ar...