Abigail Austen transitioned ten years ago. At the time she became the British Army's first transgender officer.

Recently she and her fiancé traveled to the American South attempting to glean the state of the American transgender community in these times.

And she reveals a recent visit to the far-right dominated, notoriously anti-trans states, which support the Republican candidate, left her so traumatised she was unable to leave her home for two weeks.