Charlie Craggs

Charlie Craggs is a British transgender actress, activist, and author from London.[5]

She was number one on the 2016 "New Radicals" list compiled by Nesta and The Observer newspaper,[6] and was number 40 in The Independent newspaper's 2015 "Rainbow List" of the 101 most Influential LGBTI people in the UK.[7]

In 2017 Craggs published her first book, To My Trans Sisters,[8] a collection of letters by successful trans women.[2] In 2018 the book was a finalist in the 30th Lambda Literary Awards.[9]

Craggs created the campaign "Nail Transphobia" which provided free manicures to customers, allowing them to chat with a trans person about their experiences, as an attempt to reduce transphobia.[10] The campaign began as a university project and grew to become a pop-up salon that appeared at different events and locations.[11][10]

Craggs began a campaign in 2018 for inclusion of a transgender rainbow flag emoji in Unicode,[12] which was subsequently included in 2020.[13]

In 2021, Craggs fronted the BBC Three documentary Transitioning Teens about transgender teenagers waiting to be seen by the NHS regarding their transitions. The doc was released on BBC iPlayer.[14]

In 2022, it was announced that Craggs would be joining the cast of Doctor Who audio spin-off Doctor Who: Redacted, making Craggs the second transgender companion in the show's history. It was created and written by Juno Dawson.[15]