Angela Clayton - PFC campaigner
PFC Vice-President
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Angela Clayton MBE
Angela Clayton is a campaigner for the rights of transsexual people. Based in the United Kingdom, she is a physicist by profession.
After early traumatic experiences when she approached medics for help with her transsexualism, she finally transitioned without medical support and only engaged once more with medics to obtain surgery after several years living as a woman.
Angela has been working as a campaigner with Press for Change since 1999. She took a close interest in the role of trade unions in promoting equality for trans people in the workplace and in 2002 became the first “trans observer” to the UK Trades Union Congress (TUC) LGBT Committee when it added trans people to its remit. She has continued to work with trade unions and has served three terms as a member of the TUC LGBT Committee.
In 2003 she became Chair of the trans support charity The Gender Trust and in the next two years became closely involved in supporting many trans people in their workplace transitions and representing their needs to employers and government.
She was closely involved in development of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 which for the first time gave trans people in Britain legal recognition in their lived gender. She served as a member of the implementation team for the Act presenting the views of trans people on the implementation process.
A keen public speaker, Angela has spoken frequently in venues ranging from trade unions to children’s charities by way of Oxford Colleges. Her particular interests are the law and trans people in employment. Of necessity, given her complex medical history, she became a strong advocate for trans people in healthcare and has been involved with her local Primary Care Trust and Strategic Health Authority as a patient representative on a wide range of issues, not limited to trans healthcare.
Currently Angela is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatry Working Group on care standards for trans people as well as a member of the Department of Health’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Advisory Group’s Transgender and Better Employment Workstreams.
She was made an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2005 for her services to gender issues.
