Katie Neeves has been a professional photographer for 36 years, but she came out publicly in 2018 as being transgender after living for 48 years as a man. Katie formed Cool2BTrans to support and inspire other trans people and to educate everyone else about trans people, using humour to break down barriers. Katie appears regularly in the media, being on both ITV's and the BBC's lists of experts and being a BBC Sounds podcast presenter. She has won many awards for her work as a trans ambassador, including the British Diversity Awards "Hero of the Year" award.