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Transsexual People

Transsexualism

The Medical Condition


People with gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder live with a conviction that their physical anatomy is incompatible with their true gender role. They have an overwhelming desire to live and function in the opposite biological sex. Some people become aware of their transsexualism as children while others discover their feelings later in life. Once experienced these feelings are unlikely to disappear.

 
The cause of the condition remains obscure. Many transsexual people benefit from counselling and others live happier lives following hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgery.
 
 
The main NHS centre providing specialist care for adults in England is at Charing Cross Hospital in London. There are smaller services in Leeds, Leicester, Newcastle and Bristol. The Gender Identity clinic at Charing Cross Hospital saw almost 470 new cases last year and has roughly 1,000 active patients. Data on the number of gender reassignment operations performed in the NHS is collected as part of the Hospital Episode Statistics. In 1997/8 there were 44 male-to-female operations and 4 female-to-male operations. A study of private-public mix of acute hospital care published by the Association of British Insurers recorded 104 gender reassignment operations in the private sector in 1997/8.

 

Gender Reassignment 



Transsexual People's Concerns

The most frequently mentioned concerns of transsexual people are the wish to have a birth certificate showing their new gender, to marry in that gender and, most importantly, the grant of legal recognition of their acquired gender for all purposes.

(Source: Home Office Report of the Interdepartmental Working Group on Transsexual People)

 

The Status of Transsexual People in the United Kingdom

 
(Source: Transsexual People in the Workplace. A Code of Practice)

 
EQUALITY MAINSTREAMING - Policy and Practice for Transgender People
 
This is the first report to focus specifically on the transgender population in Northern Ireland.  It was commissioned by the Equality Directorate at the Office of the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister to provide an evidence base to assist bodies in effectively considering transgender issues in the development of policy and practice.
 
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