"You learn that "I’ll always look after you" and "You’re mine for life" can sound menacing, are used as a warning over…"

"In a strange city his face changes in a way you are starting to know and dread. In a way that tells you, you need to …"

"Those patterns continue: reward, punishment, promises of happy ever after, alternating with abject rage, menace, sile…"

"It was just a big load of scary noise, this giant person. When you’re bullied your brain starts to shut down. It’s pr…"

"He was totally withdrawing from me, to let me know that I was not to be spoken to, and I wasn’t to talk to him, or be…"

"His tempers were very violent. I knew I had to be careful. There was always an underlying threat. He would drive incr…"

"It’s ridiculous and nothing about me is a dinosaur. I’m angry at colleagues chucking me on the railway tracks. I’m ev…"

"I don’t talk about trans rights because I think it’s not my place to talk about trans rights. Trans people have got s…"

"[On the possibility misgendering might become a hate crime.] Is that a serious thing? Is that coming to Parliament an…"

"They don’t threaten criticise, yell or exert their physical strength in increasingly frightening ways. Not at the sta…"