The traditional markers people use for hiring can be wrong - profoundly wrong.

I want to literally make people smarter by jamming things in their brains.

We are bad at valuing other people, and we are worse the more different they are than us.

The tax on being different is largely implicit. People need not act maliciously for it to be levied. In fact, at its heart is a laudable sentiment: 'prove it to me.' The problem is that we are requiring different levels of proof without realising it.

It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently. There can be a stigma for people who don't take the path I did, as though not having surgery means you're not really transitioning. No one should feel as though it's everything or nothing.

What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation.