“We need a holistic alternative response,” said Rahman, who is part of a new ad hoc council committee on boosting alternatives to police.

As I continue this journey, I believe the most important strategy that has been omitted to date is holistic healing for our body politic.

"It's also about the wraparound and holistic interventions that are available as part of that."

Taking on systemic inflammation is the most effective, science-backed approach we know of to improve health holistically.

The government said it was working "to improve children's gender services to provide all-round holistic support" and was "committed to the wellbeing, safety and dignity of trans people of all ages".