The Report of the Interdepartmental Working Group on Transsexual People
The Working Group was set up by the then Home Secretary in April 1999 with
the following terms of reference:
"to consider, with particular reference to birth certificates,
the need for appropriate legal measures to address the problems experienced
by transsexual people, having due regard to scientific and societal developments,
and measures undertaken in other countries to deal with this issue."
The Group's membership was:
- the Home Office (chair)
- the then Department for Education & Employment,
- the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- the General Register Office for Northern Ireland
- the General Register Office for Scotland
- the Department of Health
- the Office of Law Reform (Northern Ireland)
- the Lord Chancellor's Department
- the Office for National Statistics
- the Scottish Executive
- the then Department of Social Security and
- the National Assembly for Wales.
The Group was asked to report to Ministers by Easter 2000. The report was
laid before Parliament in July 2000.
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