House of Commons
Early Day Motion No. 1664 of the 1997-98 session

Elizabeth Bellinger

That this House applauds the courage of Mrs Elizabeth Bellinger, who, seventeen years after being awarded custody of her step-daughter by a court fully aware of her medical history, has decided to tell her story; notes that, technically, both her marriage and the adoption of her daughter are legally invalid because she is transsexual; believes that the love and care she has given to and received from her husband and daughter are no less as a result of her condition; recognises the huge risks she has decided to take, in terms of family relations and personal privacy, to publicise the plight of those who, like she, are denied many basic civil rights because they are transsexual and calls on the Government to bring in reforms to guarantee civil recognition of an individual’s corrected sex.

Motion tabled by Dr Lynne Jones MP (Lab, Birmingham Selly Oak)

Other signatories (as of 1998-11-20)

• Jackie Ballard (LibDem, Taunton)
• Paul Keetch (LibDem, Hereford)
• John Austin (Lab, Erith and Thamesmead)
• Nigel Jones (LibDem, Cheltenham)
• Kerry Pollard (Lab, St Albans)
• Hilton Dawson (Lab, Lancaster and Wyre)
• Derek Wyatt (Lab, Sittingbourne and Sheppey)
• Paul Flynn (Lab, Newport West)
• Ken Livingstone (Lab, Brent East)
• Harry Barnes (Lab, North East Derbyshire)
• Oona King (Lab, Bethnal Green and Bow)
• Mike Hancock (LibDem, Portsmouth South)
• Cynog Dafis (Plaid Cymru, Ceredigion)
• Valerie Davey (Lab, Bristol West)
• Evan Harris (LibDem, Oxford West and Abingdon)
• Alan Simpson (Lab, Nottingham South)
• Rudi Vis (Lab, Finchley and Golders Green)
• Ann Cryer (Lab, Keighley)
• Neil Gerrard (Lab, Walthamstow)
• Alice Mahon (Lab, Halifax)
• Donald Gorrie (LibDem, Edinburgh West)
• Sandra Osborne (Lab, Ayr)
• Iain Coleman (Lab, Hammersmith and Fulham)
• Roseanna Cunningham (SNP, Perth)
• Malcolm Chisholm (Lab, Edinburgh North and Leith)
• Bob Laxton (Lab, Derby North)
• Tom Brake (LibDem, Carshalton and Wallington)
• Sir Robert Smith (LibDem, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
• Phil Woolas (Lab, Oldham East and Saddleworth)
• Dr Phyllis Starkey (Lab, Milton Keynes South West)
• Brian White (Lab, North East Milton Keynes)
• Dr Ian Gibson (Lab, Norwich North)
• Christine Butler (Lab, Castle Point)
• Dr Desmond Turner (Lab, Brighton Kemptown)
• Jamie Cann (Lab, Ipswich)
• Julia Drown (Lab, Swindon South)
• John McDonnell (Lab, Hayes and Harlington)
• Marsha Singh (Lab, Bradford West)
• Tony Baldry (Con, Banbury)
• Clive Efford (Lab, Eltham)

Total: 41

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