'I never felt comfortable in my body'
Nate Ethan Watson, who believes he is the UK's first openly transgender grime artist, says he first understood he was "meant to be a boy" aged four.
But when he told his friends, other children overheard him and he received abuse and wanted the ground to "swallow me up".
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