Machester, UK. If you are woman you will laugh and understand the title; if you are a man — probably not! It also neatly summarizes the problem women born transsexual face.

Human beings are categorized male or female at birth and UK Law only recognizes one or the other. Now whilst I personally feel sex should not be recorded, as it is no longer needed to estimate the number of men a King could raise for an army, that might be a rather long term objective!


So we mess about with equality based on the concept of gender. I loved this quote from a child at Redwood Heights who got gender theory in one bite! “I think it's about how it doesn't matter who you are," he said. "If you're a girl who likes girl stuff, or a boy who like boy stuff, it just matters if you're human." However that ignores the sex you fundamentally are.

You know the core binary bit: the entire universe needs it to actually exist in a state of equilibrium? Well that applies to your brain too. That some individuals will need to repair this balance when the sex of their brain is so fundamentally opposite to the initial medical allocation of body sex at birth is obvious. When such a condition occurs it cannot be talked away. The only cure is surgical and lifelong hormone treatment to establish and maintain their corrected sex.

I am conscious of using the inadequate word correction here as that implies a subjective judgmental fault when it is a natural physical phenomena and not a mental illness. Someone who has not experienced such a fundamental experience — that clearly starts in the mother’s womb — will not be able to fully understand the difference between sex and gender roles or presentation.

Every so called expert in gender dysphoria or gender reassignment who has not actually experienced this naturally occurring condition will fail to understand the core issues and treatment needs as their judgments will be based on their personal values formed through politics, religion, social science or anatomical studies and that leads to discrimination, prejudice and inappropriate treatment suggestions.

Everyman and his dog has an opinion and a suggestion because they think they understand but one thing for certain is they don’t know like someone who has done it. This is hardly surprising as people will tell the gatekeeper whatever the gatekeeper wants to get to surgery and this has resulted in some truly barmy theories of gender.

So someone who knows that they must permanently and irrevocably move from the sex someone at birth chose for them to the one they know they are is bound to be faced with some incredibly discriminatory hurdles. To me Equality means Equal full stop but in a patriarchal society based on Abrahamic religious judgments by the great and the good we have to be careful we understand the rules that become law that whether we like it or not we are all bound by.

No matter how much they play with words the medical establishment take the God like view that firstly their decision of sex allocated at birth cannot be challenged or changed. They therefore believe that a challenge or even the slightest desire to move away from their decision is a mental illness.

This mental illness has found its way into law with the requirement to see a gender specialist overwhelmingly taken from the mental health industry to confirm gender dysphoria to get a changed birth certificate from a gender recognition certificate to list the fact that the original decision cannot be challenged or changed. This is the ultimate in fascism and Hitler would be proud of these charlatans.

Now bring in the concept of sex discrimination that, of course, had to be altered to include intention to undergo or having undergone gender reassignment but correctly didn’t define what gender reassignment is, so as not to discriminate against men born with a difficult to enhance female anatomy. This has of course created two interesting possibilities of a man giving birth and a woman with a penis forcibly raping by penetrative sex though it really would be a Nazi state to insist on forced sterilization or castration.

Now let’s add into the confusion the issue of people who chose to make their sexuality the defining characteristic of their lives and it gets even more complicated with the addition of T to LGBT or is it LGBT&TQI; as it keeps changing to create a bigger and bigger political lobby group.

Slight aside here

Our new UK Minister for Equalities has stated several times that Transgender or Trans is a particularly difficult community to reach.

Someone should tell her that it includes fantasists and fetishists who are hiding their predilections from their wives, girlfriends, work colleagues, and so forth.

They will be a tad difficult to engage!

Let me say here none of that bothers me.

People should enjoy their sexuality and their fantasies and fetishes. Everyone has them to some greater or lesser degree and they must not let other people's judgments create any guilt, providing they are not exploiting those who are yet able to give informed consent.Equality is never easy when you have to balance so many issues but it remains important to keep coming back to Equality means Equal full stop! So with that in mind we must put individual need before societies groupings.

That is my issue with Trans- or Transgender — the forced catch all that denies the legitimate right of an individual to both move from one sex to another: hormonally and surgically correct and maintain the perceived characteristics of that sex without moral, medical or legal judgments.

These are the current laws that a woman born transsexual can use when dogma of social science and sociopolitically-based discrimination occurs. Prejudice and discrimination are perpetuated by out of court settlements so that case law does not expose the medical establishment systemic prejudice.

We, though, have an obligation to make it easier for those yet to be born knowing that they must change a sex defining characteristic. So here is how the law in the UK can be used to ensure fair & non discriminatory treatments. You need to start by understanding that the 2010 Single Equality Act did two things.

A. Created a protected characteristic of gender reassignment.

1. A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.

2. A reference to a transsexual person is a reference to a person who has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.

3. In relation to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment—(a) a reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic is a reference to a transsexual person;(b) a reference to persons who share a protected characteristic is a reference to transsexual persons.

This fundamentally changed the definition of gender reassignment, by removing the requirement for medical supervision.

B. The concept of proportionate action to achieve a legitimate aim was also introduced.

A person does not contravene section 29 (provision of services(that includes medical)), so far as relating to gender reassignment discrimination, only because of anything done in relation to a matter within sub-paragraph (2) if the conduct in question is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. The matters are:

(a) the provision of separate services for persons of each sex;
(b) the provision of separate services differently for persons of each sex;
(c) the provision of a service only to persons of one sex.

This has been used to allow a prison for a felon to be selected on the basis of physical anatomy not just on legal sex. It also introduces discrimination on the basis of failing to take proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.

It is a legitimate aim to both seek gender reassignment without medical supervision and where medical input is requested demand that treatments by medical staff for those that seek surgical intervention and continuous life long hormone treatment are not discriminatory. Grouping together both those who have had or intend to have hormone and surgical treatments with those that have no such intention is discriminatory.

Sex is defined as that allocated at birth or acquired through a gender recognition certificate. So once you have a female birth certificate you must not be treated differently to any other woman. That means no extra conditions on anything. The right to SRS is automatic at the hospital of your choice with the surgeon of your choice. No PCT can refuse to fund this.

Any decision to refuse treatment at the preferred hospital would be sex discrimination by reason of gender reassignment contrary to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 as modified by The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (Amendment), Regulations 2008 No 963. Once genital surgery is completed failure to continue with hormone therapy for life to maintain feminisation is also discrimination.

The Gender Identity Clinics that some people chose to pass through have for a long time now been in breach of The Mental Capacity Act hiding behind the old chestnuts of prejudice that “you might regret it” or “it might be a symptom of some other serious mental illness” like delusion?

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 affirms that a person must be assumed to have the capacity to make a decision about their life/treatment unless there is evidence that they do not have such capacity. That a decision may appear to be foolish or unwise to someone, such as the PCT, is not evidence of this. Any Department of Health or PCT policy that contradicts the Mental Capacity Act 2005 is unlawful and invalid.

I have been discriminated against four times in Manchester, a city that claims global standards of tolerance, by medical staff who refuse to see me as anything other than a gay man with a serious mental illness of presumably not accepting their diagnosis of delusion!

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