Following my very public coming-out video in April 2018, my story caught the attention of the local media and I started doing interviews for local radio stations and newspapers. After every interview I was contacted by other transgender people who were struggling with their gender identity and they told me that what I said had helped and encouraged them. I then started doing interviews for national radio, TV, newspapers and magazines as a trans ambassador. Not only am I helping trans people directly, but I am helping to educate the general public about trans issues. The more people who are educated on the subject, the more acceptance there will be and the easier it will be for trans people to come out in the future.
I am on the BBC’s and ITV’s lists of experts, so when they need someone to represent the trans community, they can call me and I will be there. You can see that I am very relaxed in front of the camera or microphone and I am able to explain trans issues very clearly. Most importantly though, I have a great sense of humour so I always has fun with my interviewers as I think it is the key to making the viewers or listeners actually listen to what I has to say.
I co-present a series for BBC Sounds, entitled “Time for some LGBTea“, along with my co-presenters Helen McCarthy and Kevin Ncube, in which we discuss all the loving, moving , intriguing and funny stories from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Here’s a link to the ITV News report that I took part in, about what life is like for trans people in the UK in 2023. https://www.itv.com/…/proud-to-be-me-what-its-like-to… The video I appear in, is the third one on the page.
This is an interview I did for ITV News which had 20,000 views on Facebook in the first week alone.
An interview with Martin Ballard on BBC Radio Leicester
A really fun live with Kirk Pickstone of Duggystone Radio. It was a catch-up after he initially interviewed me 3 years ago when out very publicly as being transgender. We had lots of laughs and I even managed to do a wind-up on him at the end of the interview. I’m so naughty!

Katie Neeves
I am a woman on a mission! But not just any woman and not just any mission…
Being an openly transgender woman and a trans ambassador, I am on a mission to not only show that it’s OK to be trans, but it’s actually cool to be trans too!
Through my media appearances, public speaking engagements, blog, vlog, social media, trans awareness training courses and via support groups, my aim is to reach out to trans people who may be struggling with their gender identity, to reassure them and to lead by example. I want to help educate the general public too. The more people who are educated about trans issues, the greater the acceptance and the easier it will be for trans people to live their lives in peace. Most bigotry and prejudice comes from ignorance and fear of the unknown. Education can and does save lives.
Latest news from my blog
Another award and an insult from my daughter!
A crazy-busy Pride Month!
Hosting the Queer Student Awards 2023
21 ways to make the workplace more trans-inclusive
My challenge for the week…
5 minutes of fame on ITV News!
In and out of the studios
A Special thing happened at the DIVA Awards 2023
I’m in the DIVA Power List 2023!
Being filmed for ITV News – what a week!
National Diversity Awards Nomination
I will have to break the law every time I use a public loo
Trans women could be banned from female-only spaces under proposed law change
British Diversity Awards Hero of the Year 2023
Global trans awareness training – helped by my cat!
Shortlisted for a DIVA Award!
Trans Awareness Talk for National Grid
I shared a stage with a bed!
Keir Starmer is wrong to say that 16 is to “too young to change gender”.
My first award of 2023 – just two weeks into the year!
Shortlisted for British Diversity Awards
Trans in the City Trans Community Champion of the Year 2022 Award
Taking trans inclusion to a TV gameshow!
Trans Awareness week is fast approaching!
My modelling debut at London Fashion Week
Catwalk Calling…
Proud to be trans at Warwickshire Pride
Trans and Cis Women Unite!
Trans Pride Brighton
Changing a Life, a Standing Ovation & a Protest
Trans Awareness Training in Durham
Filming in London to bust myths about trans people
Post-surgery, trans-friendly bra fitting
National Diversity Awards Nomination
LGBTQIAWTF?
Inspirational Speaking Gig on “Being the best you”
Trans Awareness Training for Premier Foods
NOT Safe To Be Me: An official statement
Incredible Feedback for Virtual Trans Awareness Training
Transition VLOG: The Week of my Breast Surgery
A Page 3 Girl at age 52!
Cool People: Paul Sesay
Final trans awareness training session of 2021
The Curse of Teams Live!
Fellowship of the RSA
Back-to-back trans awareness training sessions
Trans Awareness Week 2021
Cool People: Brian Abram
Upstaged by my cat again!
Transition VLOG: Breast Augmentation Surgery
Trans Inclusion Training for Interflora
Talking on the top of London!
Cool People: David Watters
OUT OUT OUT!
My national newspaper article about being forced to come out to a car dealer
Incredible Feedback
My long-awaited second appointment at an NHS gender clinic
Cool People: Khakan Qureshi
Cool People: Mark Esho
My portrait is hanging in an art gallery!
Featured in Pride Life Global magazine!
Cool People: Robin Moira White
Why I was forced to out myself while selling my mum’s car…
Sketchnotes of My Long Walk to Womanhood
I made it to the end of Pride month!
Another busy week in Pride month…
Another busy week during Pride month
My cat has heard it all before…
National Diversity Awards Nomination
Trans awareness session for Zurich Insurance plc on IDAHOBIT
Busy, busy, busy…
Trans awareness session for homeless project
Joint Lecture with my GP to Medical Students
Transgender Day of Visibility – well, the whole week really!
Wellerman: The TRANS version
Awards Nomination
Speaking with royalty for International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day
Upstaged by by cat!
The LGBT Speakers Agency is launched
Trans Awareness Training to 189 Staff of Global Law Firm
Cool People: Emma Williams
The Start of LGBT+ History Month
A really fun radio interview
3 years since admitting to myself that I am trans
Cool People: Skye Morden
Beautiful things happened in 2020
Cool People: Rebecca Tallon de Havilland
WPATH Condemns court ruling leading to withdrawal of puberty blockers for trans kids
Cool People: Stephanie Battaglino
Welcome to my crazy World…
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Presenting to senior leaders at Aviva
Two Trans Awareness Sessions and some Lovely Feedback
Happy Trans Awareness Week!
Cool People: Bobbi Pickard
3-hour virtual trans awareness training session – helped by my cat!
A long day of trans awareness and consultancy
Cool People: Sandra Pollock
Another day, another conference…
Help from my Cat for Virtual Trans Awareness Training Session
Cool People: Esi Hardy
Relief and Disappointment to Gender Recognition Act Reform Announcement
Leaked Report on Gender Recognition Act
Dear JK Rowling – an open letter
Global companies show support for trans people!
3-hour Virtual Trans Awareness Training Session
Living full-time as female for 2 years
Are you ready for Inclusion Week 2020?
A funny thing happened today…
Cool People: Zoë Perry
Cool People: Kenneth Felts
BBC removes trans support groups from its “LGBT Issues page
The Queerpreneur Podcast
BBC video about how gender has never been binary in many cultures
Cool People: Roland Chesters
Video of mum of trans child shunned by her church community
A True Transgender Pioneer
“…the most interesting webinar so far and definitely the funniest.”
Cool People: Rhimano Rangeley
Fighting for trans Rights in 2020
I just wrote a little letter to my MP…
Boris makes life more dangerous for trans people
Cool People: Michael Johnson-Ellis
Positive Role Model Award Nomination in the National Diversity Awards 2020
Interview with Transformational Coach Sarah Naylor
Cool People: Mik Scarlet
Cool People: Kellie Maloney
Cool People: Michelle Moorhead & Rachel Cruz
Cool People: Jackie Handy
Facebook Live: Transgender Q&A
Cool People: Leng Montgomery
Cool People: Jessica Lynn
Getting some style advice
Trans woman whose life was transformed after hearing Katie Neeves on the radio
LGBT+ Histories Month: Trans Awareness Talk to University of Leicester
BBC Radio interview about Caityln Jenner in I’m a Celebrity
Sharing my story in London
Transgender Employment Presentation to HR Managers
Nominations for 2 Awards!
Living Full-time as a Woman for 1 Year
Reviewing the Newspapers on BBC Radio Leicester
Losing Family & Friends for being Transgender
Look who’s in the press again…
TruInclusion London 2019
Empowered Women Empowering Women
Introducing Cool2BTrans
BBC Radio Leicester Breakfast Show Interview


An interview with Sarah Taylor for “The Queerpreneur Podcast”
An interview with transformational coach Sarah Naylor about my careers as a photographer, filmmaker and trans ambassador.
This was a really fun interview on “The Sofa of Success” with Rachel Hargrave of The Awards People.
This was an in-depth interview with Kirk Pickstone of internet radio station Duggystone Radio. It lasts nearly an hour, so we were able to cover a lot of ground. It was a luxury to have so much airtime as most radio interviews are limited to 10 to 15 minutes and even less for TV.
This was a post interview chat with Ady Dayman of BBC Radio Leicester when I was still living as Martin, just after I came out so publicly. We very quickly established a great rapport and even though we had only just met, we were like two old friends having a chat.
If you are interested in booking me for a media appearance or interview to discuss transgender issues, please CONTACT ME or call me on 07973 638 591.
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