Charlie Kiss, who has died aged 56, led an extraordinary life. A kind, thoughtful and funny person with a glorious belly laugh, he was also something of a political compass for his family and friends, radiating incredulity and rallying protest against the worst schemes of the government of the day.
His memoir, A New Man (2017), was a characteristically unvarnished retelling of his life, detailing the mental health problems that stemmed from gender dysphoria. For many years his identity was that of a lesbian woman, and one who at the age of 17 lived at the women-only anti-nuclear protest camps at Greenham Common.
