Katie Neeves

Katie Neeves has been a professional photographer for 38 years, but she came out publicly in 2018 as being transgender after living for 48 years as a man. 

Katie formed Cool2BTrans to support and inspire other trans people and to educate everyone else about trans people, using humour to break down barriers. 

Katie appears regularly in the media, being on ITV, the BBC and Channel 5’s lists of experts and being a BBC presenter too. 

She has won many awards for her work as a trans ambassador, including the British Diversity Awards Hero of the Year 2023 award.  She was listed as a Diversity Champion on the Global Diversity List 2023 and she was on the 2024 list of Top 100 Influential People in the UK too.  

Katie’s talks have been described as “engaging, hilarious and exciting”, “inspirational storytelling at its best!” and “the most exciting training in years”. 

 
Speaking Topics 

  • My Long Walk to Womanhood 
  • What’s it like to be transgender and how can I support those who are?
  • Positively Managing Change: A very personal journey
  • 1.5-hour & 3-hour trans awareness training sessions (for everyone)
  • How to make the workplace more trans-inclusive (for leaders & HR professionals)
  • Trans awareness session for medical professionals
  • Improving the patient experience for trans people (for medical professionals)
  • Event hosting
  • Panel participation & hosting