PFC Newsletter Number Twelve (February 1999)

	PFC patron Julie Hesmondhalgh in her television role as Coronation Street’s ’Hayley Patterson’

Newsletter Number Twelve (February 1999)

Edited by Alex Whinnom

In this issue

In the week before Christmas, we heard that the High Court had ruled that NW Lancashire Health Authority’s decision to refuse treatment for three transsexual women (A, D and G) was unlawful. This is the first time such a case has come to court, though we have successfully settled a number of cases out of court. Although the HA is appealing, we are fairly confident the judgement will stand, and if so, it represents a tremendous victory and is of very practical assistance to everyone waiting for funding for gender reassignment surgery.

PFC vice-president Stephen Whittle

In our press release, Stephen Whittle said: “We are delighted that the three plaintiffs will at last be able to look forward to receiving the treatment recommended by their doctors. It’s also great news for many other transsexual people, whose treatment has been subject to delays way beyond the limits set out in the Patients’ Charter, as health authorities have either imposed blanket bans on treatment or set limits or conditions which effectively make it unavailable.”

This decision is good news too, for other NHS patients denied treatment by their Health Authorities: they too can look forward to having treatment being provided on the basis of clinical need rather than arbitrary policy.

Increasing emphasis is being placed on measuring the effectiveness of treatments provided by an indubitably cash-strapped NHS - and quite rightly so. However gender reassignment surgery is one of the most successful forms of treatment offered, with clinical studies recording satisfaction rates of up to 97%. It is sought by only a small number of people each year: best estimates indicate only about 5,000 transsexual people in the UK, of whom only a small number seek medical treatment in any given year. It is also not expensive: treating transsexual people accounts for only a penny or two in every thousand pounds of the NHS budget.

Please note that the transcript of the case is not yet published. As soon as it is, we will put it on the Press for Change website, and make it available as a hard copy through the Resource List. In the meantime, people currently considering legal action against a Health Authority should politely draw their attention to the judgement.

Discrimination on grounds of “sexuality”

This is bad news for us: the case of Smith v Gardner Merchant Ltd. was lost in the Court of Appeal in July 1998. The original Tribunal had found that unlike gender reassignment, sexuality is not covered by the Sex Discrimination Act. The Court of Appeal said that the Tribunal had erred in not looking at whether Smith, a gay man, had been treated less favourably than a lesbian woman, but upheld the decision. The Equal Opportunities Commission’s proposed new legislation does not specifically include sexuality as grounds on which it is not acceptable to discriminate, although it says it is looking for more advice on the subject. Whilst this loophole exists, trans people as well as gay and lesbian people are still not entirely safe. Unscrupulous employers may try to use sexuality as a justification for discrimination, if they know they cannot use transgender.

Miscellaneous news

A new patron

Since getting the part of Hayley in Coronation Street, Julie Hesmondhalgh has become a firm supporter of “equality and respect for all trans people”. We are very pleased to announce that she has agreed to become a Patron of Press for Change.

2001 Census: letter from ONS

“… Should there be the traditional question on the individual’s Sex in the 2001 Census, it would be reasonable for you to respond by ticking either the ’Male’ or ’Female’ box whichever you believe to be correct, irrespective of the details recorded on your birth certificate.”

(thanks to Paula Thomas for checking this out)

Latest news from Nottingham Women’s Centre

Following the success last year of the campaigns for trans women to use the facilities of the Nottingham Women’s Centre, the latest news is that the centre has accepted trans women as just everyday women users of the centre. This has culminated in a request, by the centre, for Cherrie Button (Chair of Nottingham Transgender Network) to stand for election as Secretary to the general committee. She has since been elected and begins office next week. She will, we believe, be first trans woman to be elected to represent women in a “Women Only Space” in this country.

BBC: Diversity database

ACTION - The BBC is launching a new central resource of contributors and experts who have either a minority or specialist interest in mainstream issues, or expertise in a minority or specialist field. We would encourage those Press for Change members who are available to speak to the media to ensure you are listed. For more details contact:

Cathy Aitchison, Diversity Database, BBC Broadcast Equality Unit, Room 7021, Television Centre, London W12 7RJ
Tel: 0181-576 4649
Email: cathy.aitchison@bbc.co.uk

Educational certificates

If you are having trouble getting certificates changed and would like some advice, contact Catherine Lake on: 0870-787 8888 - please do not use the number given in the Nov 98 newsletter.

Research: help wanted

An Occupational Therapy student is looking for transsexual people willing to complete a short questionnaire. Please contact: Abigail Lancaster, 15 Chestnut Grove, Caerleon, Newport, S. Wales

Courts and Tribunals

Employment: Police

Claire Ashton

An industrial tribunal has ruled that some of the complaints brought by former policewoman Claire Ashton against West Mercia Constabulary are out of time, and cannot form part of her sex discrimination claim. Claire retired from the force on medical grounds at the end of March 1997, after informing them of her intention to undergo gender reassignment. She was redeployed as a communications operator at Shrewsbury police station, but lost her civilian job when the force terminated her employment 12 months later.

Miss Susan Belgrave, counsel, had applied to amend the tribunal application so that complaints made outside the time limit could be included in her sex discrimination case.

Hopefully there will still be enough evidence to win the case which begins on Monday February 22.

Employment: Royal Navy

Lynda Cash, who served in the Falklands campaign as a leading medical assistant, is taking the Royal Navy to court for unfair dismissal. She represented herself at an industrial tribunal in Southampton in January which will decide whether she has a case. She is probably the first trans person to sue the Navy for discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful dismissal and medical negligence.

Employment: victory against CPS

In November 98 Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service had to admit that if a barrister was right for the job as a man, becoming a woman didn’t make her any less qualified. The CPS has reached a confidential settlement with transsexual barrister Susan Marshall, who had been offered a job with the service as a man only to have it withdrawn when she began her transition to living as a woman. A spokesperson said that, “The CPS recognises the distress caused to Ms. Marshall by the withdrawal of employment at the time she had expressed an intention to undergo gender reassignment.”

Although there was no legal recourse for her at the time of the CPS’ reversal, the “P” decision in 1996 enabled Susan to file a discrimination complaint against the CPS. The CPS argued that it was too late for the filing, and when a lower court refused to dismiss the case, the CPS went to the Court of Appeal. Shortly before those justices were to hear oral arguments, the settlement was reached.

Employment: X sacked for non-disclosure

X was employed, after interview, as a Mental Health Support Worker. On her first day at work she was dismissed when another worker told the employer that she was transsexual. X challenged the dismissal on the basis of Sex Discrimination (using P v S etc). The employer counter argued that the dismissal was because X was ’dishonest’ in failing to disclose transsexuality prior to employment. I am very pleased to announce that X won her case at an Industrial Tribunal in November, with a nice settlement - £5k for hurt feelings, and £2k for lost wages.

Notes from Stephen Whittle:

There is no general obligation to disclose trans status to an employer. People winning employment cases or settling out of court are generally being awarded decent sums in compensation - we calculate over £100,000 last year was paid out to trans people who had been subjected to discrimination at work.

New publication now available

“Transsexual People in the Workplace, A Code of Practice” is now available from Press for Change, price £3.50 including p & p (see Resource List).

Parliamentary & Political campaign news

Houses of Parliament - is the goodwill there?

Parliamentary forum

Two meetings of the Forum have been held in December and in January. As usual a wide range of topics were discussed which can only be summarised here. However it is worth noting that a representative from the Equal Opportunities Commission is now attending, along with medical and legal experts and Press for Change representatives.

Margaret Hodge, the Minister at the Department for Education and Employment who is now the lead person on the Employment Guidelines, has written to Lynne Jones, Chair of the Forum. We understand draft guidelines will be published shortly for consultation, and that these have been written with due consideration for the version suggested by the Parliamentary Forum.

Please note: this is not a public meeting, but any MP is welcome to attend, and we would like to see more cross-party support.

ACTION - If your MP is supportive, ask him or her to contact Lynne Jones MP for the date and agenda of the next meeting.

Parliamentary: Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats were last summer the first party to pass a motion to ensure equal rights for transsexual people. Now Press for Change has been invited by DELGA (Lib Dems Gay & Lesbian Group) to share a stall at the party’s half year conference in Edinburgh in March. Liberal Democrat support is important as besides their “constructive opposition” at Westminster, it seems likely they may hold the balance of power in the new Scottish Parliament.

ACTION - If your MP is a Lib Dem, please visit or write asking him/her to visit the Press for Change stall at Edinburgh.

Another councillor?

Congratulations to Christine Warbiss, a trans woman who has been selected as a Labour candidate for the village of West Cornforth on Sedgefield Borough Council. (Sedgefield is of course the Prime Minister’s constituency.)

Trades unions

UNISON, one of the largest and most powerful of the Trades Unions, has affiliated to Press for Change and made a generous donation. This is particularly satisfying since we have worked hard to establish a relationship with them for some time.

Trades unions are beginning to take more of an interest in trans issues: NAPO and BIFU are also affiliated, and we have very good relationships developing with the NUT (who supported us over the DfEE paper), MSF, the Communication Workers’ Union, CPHVA and Equity. We are receiving fairly frequent invitations to run stalls and/or speak at TU conferences, and are being well received when we do so.

ACTION - If you are an active member of a trade union, do consider lobbying it to:

Include “gender identity” in its equal opportunities policy;
Formally endorse the draft Guidelines for Employers drawn up by the Parliamentary Forum on Transsexualism;
Affiliate to Press for Change and make a donation;
Invite Press for Change to speak and/or run a stall at its national conference

Birth certificate change: Joella wins her case

Joella Holliday, who has won her fight to be registered as a girl. She will now be allowed to marry when she comes of age
Photograph: GEOFF ROBINSON

In December 1998 Britain’s youngest transsexual person (now 10 years old) won her fight to have her birth certificate changed. We must all be pleased that one child will be spared the suffering and indignity of going through life in the wrong legal sex, but the circumstances surrounding the case are odd to say the least…

A 47-page submission by Prof. Charles Brook, an endocrinologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, where Joella has been treated, finally convinced the Office of National Statistics.

Prof. Brook is quoted as saying: “It seems that no-one understood the nature of Joella’s complaint. It had not been explained properly to the relevant authorities and so they got it muddled up with transsexuals and all that rubbish. It has nothing to do with that at all. Joella had an embryological abnormality.” However he then goes on to say that: “Joella’s assignment as a male child was misguided rather than a mistake. It had not been appropriate to assign her to the male sex although she was chromosomally a boy. By the time that she was about a year old it became clear that it would be kinder to bring her up as a girl.”

Joella’s condition is called cloacal exstrophy and occurs in the embryo when there is a “mid-line fusion” of the cells that form the lower abdomen and genitalia. At first it was not clear if she was male or female but tests showed her to be chromosomally male, and for the first year of her life she was treated as baby boy. But her parents later decided on medical advice to bring her up as a girl after all. She has undergone numerous operations and receives female hormone treatment which she will continue to take for life. In other words there is no difference, biologically speaking, between Joella and a trans girl, except that Joella was put through gender reassignment surgery without her consent at a very young age. So far, fortunately, Joella seems contented with her female gender, but the case raises two important and related issues:

Firstly, it highlights the situation of those children, born with ambiguous genitalia, or genuinely intersexed, who are usually assigned to one sex or the other (not necessarily in line with their chromosomes - it generally depends mainly on the size of any penis) at birth or soon after. Such people as they grow older may or may not develop the appropriate gender identity, and may experience great distress at the “mutilation” of their body to force it to fit a sex stereotype. So why are babies be assigned at birth? And why is gender reassignment surgery performed at this stage, some years before the child is able to express its own gender identity and its wishes about its own body? On the other hand, why are trans children also denied this choice? Secondly, and despite Prof. Brook’s determined assertions, it is very hard indeed to see any clear purple water between Joella and “all that rubbish”… another case of “what’s sauce for the goose”?

What is PFC doing?

Ongoing campaigns

Insurance etc.

If you need financial services please consider arranging these through PFC. This is to enable us to work with the major insurance companies to establish good practice. Please remember the current position is that if you do not disclose your transsexualism to an insurer your insurance is almost certainly not valid.

ACTION - If you need life insurance, a pension or mortgage, or may do in the next 12 months, please contact Jim Sealey on 01204-364484 or write to him at:

CH Financial Services
20 Chorley New Road
Bolton BL1 4AP

Media Watch

If you notice a hostile, intrusive or degrading article about a trans person, please do THREE things:

ACTION -

write to the editor and complain
send details and the address of the editor to PFC and we will also complain
if you know the victim, ask them to complain to the Press Complaints Commission (only the subject of the article can do this).

Treatment on the NHS

We are compiling a dossier of evidence around access to treatment on the NHS which will go to Frank Dobson MP. We are also interested in issues around quality of treatment.

ACTION - If you have had or sought any NHS medical treatment for transsexualism and would be willing to complete a short confidential questionnaire, please write for the attention of Ruth Richards.

Transsexual Birth Parents Working Group

The brief for the group includes collecting research and information, court judgements and positive experiences, collating a list of useful solicitors and supporting transsexual parents who wish to keep in contact with their children.

ACTION - If you are interested in joining the group, have useful information for it, or need help, please write for the attention of ’J’.

Employers award

The Press for Change award scheme for employers offers a certificate and entry into a directory is the reward for employers who provide a supportive environment and have a policy of non-discrimination towards transsexual and transgender people.

ACTION - If your employer is a decent one, write in giving a contact name and address, and we will assess them.

Local campaign network

We currently have at least one member campaigning in each of the following areas. Capital letters denote an established group:

AVON (Bristol) - Bedfordshire - Buckinghamshire - Cheshire - Derbyshire (Derby) - DEVON (Torquay) - Dorset - East Anglia (Suffolk, Cambridge) - Fife - FYLDE COAST & Lancs (Lytham, Blackpool) - GLASGOW - Hampshire (S’hampton) - Hampshire (North) - Kent - LONDON: Hertfordshire & NW London, Middlesex & W London, SE London, Surrey & SW London - Leicestershire - Lincolnshire & Humberside - MANCHESTER & Greater M/c - Midlands (Wolverhampton, Warwickshire) - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE - NOTTINGHAM - Oxfordshire - Reading & Thames Valley - Shropshire - Surrey - Sussex (Brighton) - Wales North (Rhyl) - Wales South - Wiltshire (Salisbury) - WEST YORKSHIRE: Huddersfield, LEEDS, Bradford, SHEFFIELD, Mirfield

ACTION - Would you be willing to help? There is much more that could be done. If you think you might be interested please send for the Introduction to the PFC Local & Media Networks (see resource list). See also, our on-line campaign pack

Constituency links

Thanks to all who have contacted us to offer to be “Constituency Links”, acting as a contact with their MP. We have covered quite a number of MPs but there are still some who don’t realise they have transsexual constituents! It is not a hard job: you would need to visit and introduce yourself (if you haven’t already) and be willing to visit, phone and/or write now and again to remind the MP that you exist and to ask them to do specific things to help.

ACTION - If you volunteer please write in giving your contact details and the name of your MP, and if possible, an indication of how supportive you think they are.

GIRES

GIRES is a registered charity set up to “work alongside Press for Change” to undertake research into trans issues, especially in areas which would assist the civil rights movement, and education to the public in order to enhance awareness and acceptance of trans people.

It is currently identifying priority research topics and seeking funding to run them. It is also offering a prize for the best piece of published research. If you would like more information write to: GIRES, Melverley, The Warren, Ashstead, Surrey KT21 2SP.

ACTION - If you haven’t yet joined GIRES (Gender Identity Research & Education Society) please do! It’s only £5. And if you are a student or researcher in this field, get in touch - your work matters.

Wanted: press cuttings

Press for Change is always grateful to receive press cuttings, especially those relating to legal challenges or injustices. We have a large collection which is proving to be a useful resource for research students.

Wanted: photos

If you would be willing to provide a photo for publicity use, please send good quality prints or negatives to Press for Change. We are interested both in photos of trans people as adults, either alone or with other people, and in photos of you as a child aged from 3 to teenage. (Photos returned on request.)

How to get more involved

Member or Activist?

Membership of Press for Change is open to all transsexual and transgender people and any member of the public who wishes to support the aims and work of the organisation. No membership fee is charged.

People on the Press for Change or Boys Own mailing lists are deemed to be members unless they ask not to be. Members receive the newsletter free of charge, may request resources and advice, are asked to take action collectively on issues relating to civil rights when necessary, and may if they wish volunteer as Key Activists or Local Networkers.

The most significant difference between “members” and “activists” is that an activist agrees to take responsibility for an aspect of the campaign. Activists agree in writing to support the aims of Press for Change and to follow policy while campaigning. They are invited to the annual Planning Meeting and are entitled to vote at the AGM.

Please note if you receive the newsletter occasionally via another support group, you may NOT be on our list and so not be a member. If you’d like to ensure you receive more regular news and/or would like to get more involved in the campaign, please write in to the PFC address. All contact details are kept totally confidential and are never passed on to anyone without your consent; Press for Change mailings come in plain brown envelopes to the name and address of your choice.

Marriages - Gay & Heterosexual

Marriage: gay

Congratulations to Tracie and Katrina, who were finally allowed to get married in November. Earlier this year Tracie O’Keefe, a psychotherapist, and her partner Katrina Fox, a journalist, hit the headlines when the chief registrar of Westminster refused to marry the couple, even though O’Keefe’s birth certificate records her as male.

The original ceremony was cancelled at the eleventh hour by the registrar who said he could not allow two women to marry. It took 8 months for the Government to concede and allow them to marry as man and wife. The couple have married out of protest for the inequality shown to lesbian, gay and transgendered people by the UK government. They are angry that they have to suffer the humiliation of going through this ceremony in order to secure pension, inheritance and other rights automatic to heterosexual couples. Katrina highlighted the situation of gay trans people: “We feel let down by the Government, which has backtracked on all its pre-election promises to gay people - the age of consent, the decision not to overturn Section 28 or support the Sexual Orientation Discrimination Bill, which would outlaw discrimination against gays in the workplace. All Tracie and I want is the right for our relationship to be recognised in law - but for what it is - a lesbian relationship, not a heterosexual one.”

Marriage: heterosexual

In the November newsletter we publicised the case of Liz and Michael Bellinger, who came out in order to fight for legal recognition of their 20 year marriage. Liz has filed a Petition under section 55 of the Family Law Act 1986 seeking a declaration of the validity of her and Mike’s marriage. This is a very rarely used procedure which when exercised is usually in regard to foreign marriages. (It is what Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger ought to be doing).

We are now “on hold”, waiting for a date for a Directions hearing. The papers were filed just before Christmas, as hoped. Next will be a hearing at which “housekeeping” matters, such as time estimates, details of witnesses, timetable for exchange of information etc. will all be sorted out - possibly by the end of March. After that a date will be set for the substantive hearing, which would be summer at the earliest.

An interesting development is that the Attorney-General has decided to get involved and oppose Liz’s request for a declaration of marital status. Being Attorney-General, he gets to do this if he wants, even though it is rather late in the day. The A-G’s involvement means that the Government are taking this very seriously. The A-G will get to make representations at the main hearing as to why he thinks the declaration should not be granted. What he CANNOT do, however, is ask for a declaration that the marriage is void.

Ashley Bayston, Barrister in the case.

News From Around The World

Italy

Transsexual people are being offered training as museum staff by the city of Bologna. Sixteen transsexual people will be trained as museum guards or other staff. Marcella Di Folco, head of Italy’s Transsexual Identity Movement, said the course, funded by the European Union, would “restore dignity and rights to people who have them only as words”. The intention is to give transsexual people, who are synonymous with prostitution in Italy, other chances of employment. There will also be courses for lesbians, gypsies and battered wives. “Finally the approach to equal opportunities is being widened to include other walks of life,” said Laura Balbo, Italy’s Minister for Equal Opportunities. But Oreste Benzi, a priest who works with the disadvantaged, called it an absurd initiative that “stank of demagogy … a course like this … risks being a boomerang. Instead of integrating them, it will create discrimination. Transsexuals should be considered normal citizens.”

(submitted by Brenda Smith)

New Zealand

Georgina Beyer, 40, a former drag queen and transgender professional sex worker, and recently re-elected mayor of Carterton with a staggering 90% of the votes, has accepted an offer to stand for the Labor Party against New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Wyatt Creech in election, next year.

Tasmania

The Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group’s ten year campaign for anti-discrimination legislation ended in December 1998 with the passing of what it describes as one of the country’s best Anti-discrimination Acts. Rights Group spokesperson, Rodney Croome, said that the passage of the Act should be a source of immense pride for all Tasmanians: “This is one of the best pieces of anti-discrimination legislation in Australia and its passage through Parliament reflects and enshrines the tolerant, inclusive and diverse society which Tasmania has become. It allows lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people to participate fully in Tasmanian society without fear of exclusion and unfair treatment.” The Anti-discrimination Act makes it unlawful to discriminate or incite hatred on the ground of sexual orientation (interpreted to include trans people). There are no exemptions.

(submitted by Rosemary Richards)

British Columbia

A club that caters to homosexual men and lesbians has been ordered to pay C$2,000 to a transsexual woman who was barred from using the women’s restroom before completing a sex change. The province’s Human Rights Tribunal ruled Tuesday that B.J.’s Lounge discriminated against Tawney Sheridan when it barred her from the restroom after receiving complaints from female customers. “Transsexuals in transition who are living as members of the desired sex should be considered to be members of that sex,” tribunal adjudicator Barbara Humphreys ruled. She also said the club failed to prove that transsexual women’s use of the women’s washroom would “interfere with the maintenance of public decency” or cause female patrons “undue hardship.”

(submitted by Steve Harris and Brenda Smith)

Medical news

	Cartoon, copyright © Samanatha Johnson, 1998

Waiting list cut?

Jan Cobb and Nic Bray are representing Press for Change on the recently convened users’ forum at Charing Cross GIC. There are also reps from some of the self-help groups, and it appears CX is making an effort to consult and to change its practice accordingly. Jan has also heard that the Riverside Mental Health Trust has been give a directive from the office of Frank Dobson to bring the surgical waiting list down to a maximum of 18 months by April 1999. There may be grounds for cautious optimism, although unfortunately many users of the GIC are still to our knowledge experiencing very serious problems.

Good practice at the BMA

The British Medical Association, the professional body for British Doctors, has augmented its general statement on equal opportunities within the health service, by publishing a supplement which deals specifically with discrimination associated with sexuality and gender identity.

“Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation” (ISBN 0 7279 1184 8, £4 to non BMA members) supplements the February 1996 “Guidelines for promoting equal opportunities in the health service”. Copies can be obtained by calling the BMJ bookshop on 0171-383-6244.

Although barely five pages in length, a very welcome feature of the new publication from the “Career Progress of Doctors Committee” is that it specifically includes NHS staff who are transsexual and transgender, drawing clear distinctions between issues of sexual preference and gender identity, but laying out a very clear line which applies to both.

Correction

NHS numbers - error in last newsletter

Sorry - the information given in the Nov 98 newsletter with regard to gender signifiers in new NHS numbers was incorrect. We published in good faith, the information coming from a usually reliable source, but it has been conclusively confirmed by the Dept. of Health that this is just one of those myths.

“In 1996 all NHS numbers were replaced with a standard format 10 digit number which was designed to work with computers and to be unique to an individual, One of the underlying principles of the new number was that it should not have any information embedded in it that would allow a patient to be identified in any way, and I can therefore confirm that the numbers 4 and 6 which appear in your NHS number hold no special significance.”

(thanks to all the people who drew our attention to this mistake)

PFC on-line

The Press for Change Website http://www.pfc.org.uk/ contains a wealth of information regularly updated, and links to other sites, and now receives over 4,000 visits per month.

To join the following mailing lists, send a blank email to:

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If you have any difficulties, please email the list admins at listadmin@pfc.org.uk

To join the Discussion forum, send a blank email to pfc-discuss-subscribe@egroups.com. This list is for those for those campaigners who are already members of UKPFC-Forum and who would like space to debate more theoretical or personal issues.

Who are we?

PFC is staffed and run entirely by a network of volunteers - we have no office base. Around 80 people are currently of “key” or “local” activist status. Membership is hard to quantify but currently stands at around 2,000. PFC has seven Vice Presidents who are jointly responsible for leading the campaign. They are: Christine Burns, Claire McNab, Mark Rees, Sarah Rutherford, Mjka Scott, Alex Whinnom and Stephen Whittle.

For a full list of key activists and areas of responsibility, see our Who’s who page.

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