Juno Dawson and Peter Tatchell lead tributes to pioneering trans model April Ashley, dead aged 86

Trailblazing trans model April Ashley, one of the first people in the UK to have gender affirmation surgery, has died aged 86. Ashley was born in 1935 and grew up in Liverpool, which she later described as “a very tough place [which] gave me enormous strength, and most of all gives one an extraordinary sense …...