‘This is the tie I wore on my first day living fully as a boy. I moved school to transition as my previous school taught boys and girls separately (weird right?!). This tie means so much because it was like a new birth day, no longer living in the past but having a new and more positive future.’

OBJECT NUMBER MOT000042

This object currently lives in The Bishopsgate Institute.

Photos by Thomas S.G. Farnetti ©Wellcome Collection.