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Our latest projects are focussed on social challenges in the UK and elsewhere.

"That's Who I Am" explores the growing awareness in Britain that transgender people are not freaks and are more numerous than previously suspected. Gender variant children and young people explain why they knew they were in the wrong body from as early as 3 years-old, and why schools fail to understand their feelings. Teachers and trainers are beginning to realise that as many as 1 percent of the population may be what's called "gender dysphoric" - in other words, unhappy with the gender they were born with - and that can drive young people to self harming or suicide. We meet a training team that is helping schools come to terms with the reality of diversity.

Gender variant adults talk about their trauma, their transition and their struggle to be accepted, including in tough jobs like the police and fire services.

And we visit the Netherlands, where transgender people are much better normalised and where therapy to delay the onset of puberty followed by cross-gender drug therapy is now used as a form of intervention to avoid children growing bodies they can't accept.

"Street Aid" reports on a unique project to train communities to fight vandalism and anti-social behaviour. Using techniques previously confined to police officers and soldiers, ordinary citizens are being taught to defuse conflict or deal with it head on but safely. The average police office will be within 100 metres of a street crime less than once-a-year. People in the community are close all the time. Can they be shown how to clean up their streets without vigilantism?

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