Musician, Steph May, joins Dr Helen and Marianne, to discuss her new single:, “One Life”, which has been released today (March 26th) ahead of Trans Day of Visibility 2021 (March 31st). Together they discuss what visibility means to them and the importance of trans role models.

Steph is calling on the trans community and its allies to support her in getting into the UK singles chart, in time for this year’s Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31st.

Let’s do what we can to give her the boost she needs. The target is 8,000 downloads or 800,000 premium user streams from the track’s release date today (26th March).

 Links:SpotifyAmazonYouTubeDeezerIt can also be streamed from Apple Music and downloaded from iTunes, just search: “Steph May – One Life”

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 The GenderGP PodcastMusic and Trans Visibility with Steph MayHello, this is Dr Helen Webberley. Welcome to our GenderGP Podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and non-binary community in the world today, together with my co-host Marianne Oakes, a trans woman herself, and our head of therapy.

Dr Helen Webberley:Hey everybody, Dr Helen Webberley here, and Marianne. We have an exciting guest with us today called Steph. So Steph, as is the normal way for GenderGP, I'm going to pass straight over to you.

Steph May:Okay. So I'm Steph, I'm a trans woman. I guess the reason why I'm here today is because I'm trying to do something for visibility for TDOV and yeah, I'm just looking to try and get the word out there really, and try and get a bit of visibility out there. I'm quite new to all this still. I would say I've been in the sort of the scene, the trans community scene on social media say for four years or so, but when it comes to actual visibility, I've only transitioned just over a year ago. And so a lot of this stuff is still really new to me, even TDOV as a trans woman is still new to me as well, to a certain extent I've mainly watched it on the fringes. I've always had a love for music. I started playing guitar when I was 12. I started writing music straight away. That's something I started doing at the age 13 or 14. It's probably really in music the only thing that I really love doing is writing music. I tend to not enjoy a lot of the other stuff that much. So from the age of 14, I started playing in bands, but a lot of people always say that playing music and playing live and playing in bands is the thing that they really love. And there wasn't really that for me as much, I liked the sort of 20 minutes on stage, but I hated all the carrying the gear around, the waiting to go on stage, the watching bands I didn't really want to watch, you know, so yeah, I guess I'm a bit impatient with that kind of stuff, but yeah, always loved music was brought up on it. My dad played me Led Zeppelin and ACDC when I was a kid. And that's kind of what I grew up on, but I like all sorts of music. I guess music for me now is, is more something I enjoy to listen to. Writing music is, is quite a relaxing experience for me now. It's something that I do if I need to take my mind off everyday life. I can lose myself in writing music for five, six hours,