Heartstoppers Bel Priestley: Its the first time two trans girls have come together
Despite being bullied, Priestley didn’t stop advocating for herself. She began posting YouTube makeup tutorials (“I got rinsed by the kids at school for it”), before joining TikTok where she gradually built a (comparatively smaller) following of 50,000 users. Yet, from Christmas 2019 onwards she decided to take it more seriously while also candidly sharing her transition journey — and that’s where things really took off. “I grew 400,000 followers in a month,” she says of her account, where she shares everything from receiving hormones for the first time to her dating horror stories. “By the middle of 2021, I had hit a million followers. I went to Wembley soon after, and my friend was like ‘ten times the amount of people here are following you’.”
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