Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city As a teenager, one of the first jobs Ben Hodge had was working in a milkshake shop in Liverpool.
At the time, in-between making sugar-filled flavour combinations, Ben was coming to terms with his gender identity. He knew he was a trans man but he didn’t feel comfortable in telling his colleagues.
It was perhaps because he had previously overheard his manager talking about and mocking another worker who also happened to be trans. “I did feel that I had to leave because of my manager,” Ben, now 21 and living in Salford, told the Manchester Evening News . “The way I heard him talk about another trans colleague made me feel like he saw us as less of a