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submerging homes and roads, in the capital seoul. at least eight people have died. the south korean president has called an emergency meeting now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. according to research in the us and the uk, roughly one in 100 people is transgender. but the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a political and even health care battleground isnt driven so much by the numbers, but more by conflicting ...

shon faye is trans, a writer and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here. thank you for having me. its great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. its described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the intervening months since you published it, the transgender s...

41 people were killed, many of them children. they blamed the blaze on an electrical fault in the air—conditioning system. now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. according to research in the us and the uk, roughly one in 100 people is transgender. but the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a political and even health care battleground isnt driven so much by the numbers, but more by conflicting ideologies. my gu...

and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here, thank you for having me. its great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. its described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the intervening months since you published it, the transgender story, as we put it, the issue...

Known for the buildings hes built, and the wives hes divorced. You dont want to cross him, though, because he likes getting even. And hes made it a rule that no one pushes him around ever. So how did he lose all his money, and then get it back again . Donald trump, a very warm welcome to the programme. You say you cant make an omelette without breaking eggs. That sounds like a very destructive business philosophy, is it . Well im not sure ive actually used those words. But generally, you have to...

Known for the buildings hes built, and the wives hes divorced. You dont want to cross him, though, because he likes getting even. And hes made it a rule that no one pushes him around ever. So how did he lose all his money, and then get it back again . Donald trump, a very warm welcome to the programme. You say you cant make an omelette without breaking eggs. That sounds like a very destructive business philosophy, is it . Well im not sure ive actually used those words. But generally, you have to...

To know for the trading week ahead. Investing in the future. Later in the programme well speak to the boss of a company hoping to develop the next generation of coding geniuses. And also today, do you hate mondays . Ido the green party in the uk want to introduce a three day weekend. Would you want one, and would you work longer hours to get one . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. How about if you still work longer hours but you still have to do a five day week . That sounds like what we do here ...

Therefore, personal experience is very important to understanding. if you dont mind, id love to just talk a little bit about your own personal experience. you were born in the south—west of england. yes. raised as a boy. mm—hm. but it seems from very early in your life, you felt at odds with that identity. and ijust wonder how easy it was for you to make that transition to telling the world that you were not and could not identify as male. er, it wasnt particularly easy. ithink... igrew up.....

To just talk a little bit about your own personal experience. you were born in the south—west of england. yes. raised as a boy. mm—hm. but it seems from very early in your life, you felt at odds with that identity. and ijust wonder how easy it was for you to make that transition to telling the world that you were not and could not identify as male. er, it wasnt particularly easy. ithink... igrew up... my teenage years were spent in the early 2000s, which was a time where even gay people, the...

Because i think before that i think i was like a robot, like a machine, just a winning mentality, a survivor. being abused in my childhood, living in the streetjust like, surviving, i hate people from the street when they call themselves a gangster. im not a gangster, im just a survivor. and, you know, born in this world with my colour is already a disadvantage. so all of that make me who i am. know resilience and you will never give up. in under a minute youve just given me a little bit of a br...