A fairer sex?

On 4 April 2005 the introduction of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) will bring to an end a decade-long campaign by the transsexual community to gain legal recognition for acquired gender. The new law will go some way towards ending the legal limbo in which transgender people have previously found themselves. Gender dysphoria, the condition in which a person feels they have been born into the wrong sex, has been a recognised medical disorder for almost 50 years. The prescribed treatment for the condition is gender reassignment surgery, a procedure freely available on the NHS. Yet despite ...