Trans people are a lot of things, according to Jake Graf, a trans man living in London. They’re also pretty boring.

Jake has lived quite the life. Born under Section 28, a 1980s policy banning the promotion of gay lives in schools, he’s since become a trans actor and filmmaker who married the trans award-winning campaigner Hannah Graf.

But he’s also a father of two who gets spit-up on his shoulder, buys groceries from Sainsbury’s, and, as so many people do, goes to the toilet.

‘Trans people aren’t all singers and dancers and larger than life,’ Jake, who lives with Hannah and their daughters Millie and Teddy, tells Metro. ‘We are very run-of-the-mill people, just a little boring, a little ordinary, and that’s fine. We’re happy.’

This is one of the messages that Jake hopes people take aw

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