Department for Constitutional Affairs - Transsexual people

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Publications

Here you will find publications giving information on issues affecting transsexual people, including Government announcements and Parliamentary Questions.

Final Regulatory Impact Assessment [28 November 2003]
Reply from the Minister (Rosie Winterton MP) to Press for Change's comments on the Government's proposals concerning Transsexual people dated 13 December 2002 [February 2003]
Government announcement [13 December 2002]
Government policy concerning transsexual people [13 December 2002]
Update [August 2002]
Report by the interdepartmental working group on transsexual people [July 2000]

Consultation on secondary legislation

Limited Consultation Exercise on proposed Statutory Instrument - Gender Recognition Act 2004 (Approved Countries and Territories) Order 2004 [18 November 2004]
Gender recognition act 2004 proposed fee regime - limited consultation [18 November 2004]
Gender recognition act 2004 (exceptions to offence of disclosure) order 2004 [30November 2004]

Parliamentary questions and answers

The Lord Tebbit - Same sex marriage [11 February 2004]
Baroness Howe of Idlicote - Implications of moving from marriage to a civil partnership [10 February 2004]
The Lord Tebbit - Marriage between two people who are capable of giving birth [10 February 2004]
Lord Jopling - Wrong attribution of gender at birth [5 February 2004]
Lord Moynihan - consultation on Gender Recognition Bill and sport [27 January 2004]
The Lord Tebbit - Gender Recognition Bill and prison accommodation [26 January 2004]
The Lord Tebbit - Effect of Gender Recognition Bill on civil and criminal actions [20 January 2004]
The Lord Tebbit - Effect of Gender Recognition Bill on marriage [19 January 2004]
The Lord Tebbit - Meaning of "sex" and "gender" [19 January 2004]
The Lord Tebbit - Male persons who have given birth to children [19 January 2004]
The Lord Tebbit - Number of people changing sex in past five years [19 January 2004]
The Lord Tebbit - Effect of Gender Recognition Bill on marriage and clergy [19 January 2004]
The Lord Tebbit - Rape by a transsexual woman [19 January 2004]
Andrew Rosindell MP - promotion of gender recognition [19 January 2004]
Shaun Woodward MP - Impact on marriage and family of issue of a full gender recognition certificate [20 November 2003]
Ben Chapman MP - Gender Recognition Bill [9 September 2003]
Ben Chapman MP - transsexual rights [18 June 2003]
Ben Chapman MP - legal position of transsexual people [10 June 2003]
Lynne Jones MP - legislation for transsexual people [3 June 2003]
Lynne Jones MP - legislation for transsexual people [24 February 2003]
Hugh Bailey MP - birth certificates [ORAL QUESTION AND ANSWER] [7 January 2003]
Mark Todd MP - legal status of transsexual people [18 December 2002]
Ben Chapman MP - discrimination against transsexual people [18 December 2002]
Norman Baker MP - Govt response to Goodwin v the UK [20 November 2002]
Lynne Jones MP - terminology [22 October 2002]
Paul Stinchcombe MP - Govt response to Goodwin v the UK [15 October 2002]
Kali Mountford MP and Ben Chapman MP - legislation for transsexual people and the Interdepartmental Working Group on Transsexual People [9 July 2002]
Bob Russell MP - Interdepartmental Working Group on Transsexual People [25 April 2002]
Colin Pickthall MP - transsexual rights [23 July 2002]
Lynne Jones MP - Government response to judgments of the European Court of Human Rights [23 July 2002]
Lynne Jones MP - legal position of transsexual people [12 February 2002]
Anne Begg MP - birth certificates [10 April 2002]
David Rendel MP and Lynne Jones MP - Interdepartmental Working Group on Transsexual People [4 February 2002]