In The News: 2001

Employment | Court cases | Personal stories | Religion | Police | Prisons | Crime | Other

Employment

• Sex Change Doctor Wins £140,000 Bias Claim: employment tribunal finds in favour of Tracie O’Keefe (Ananova/PA 2001-02-08)
• Jail staff lectured over colleague’s sex change (Ananova/PA 2001-02-25)

Court cases

• The Bellinger case: Mrs Bellinger appeals against the High Court’s refusal to declare her 20-year-old marriage valid:
  • Transsexual fights for right to be married: Appeals Court hears Mrs Bellinger’s case for her marriage to be recognised (Daily Telegraph 2001-05-24)
  • Judges to rule on 20-year transsexual marriage: Bellingers’ appeal to be decided today (Ananova/PA 2001-07-17)
  • Transsexual loses court appeal over marriage: Bellingers’ appeal dismissed (Ananova/PA 2001-07-17)
  • Transsexual loses marriage case: Appeals Court dismisses Bellingers’ case (BBC 2001-07-17)
  • Transsexual loses appeal over 20-year ’marriage’ (Daily Telegraph 2001-07-18)
  • Marriage fight goes on for sex change wife: Bellinger case looks set for Lords after Appeals Court says no (The Guardian 2001-07-18)
  • Transsexual loses court bid to get marriage recognised (Yorkshire Post 2001-07-18)
  • See also November 2000: High Court refuses to recognise marriage

Personal stories

• I’ll be miss, says Charterhouse master: public school teacher announces transition (Daily Telegraph 2001-01-10)
• Public school physics master will return to classroom as a miss (The Independent 2001-01-10)
• Believe it or not, this woman was once a man: profile of Susan Marshall (Daily Mail 2001-01-13)

Religion

• Evangelists seek sex-change ban (Daily Telegraph 2001-01-13)
• Ban sex change ops, says church: Evangelical Alliance publishes report (Independent on Sunday 2001-01-14)
• EA’s gender report angers transsexuals: trans people criticise failure to consult (Church Times 2001-02-02)
• A Funny Kind of Integrity: Christine Burns tests the Evangelical Alliance’s claim that its report on ’Transsexuality’ is of the ’utmost academic integrity’ (PFC 2001-02-10)

Police

• Police to recruit transsexuals: Central Scotland Police says it would like to see more applicants from a transgender background (Ananova/PA 2001-05-11)
• West Yorkshire police fights to prevent a trans woman joining the force
  • Police seek transsexual ruling: West Yorkshire Police appeals against tribunal ruling that transsexual woman should be allowed to serve (Ananova/PA 2001-07-03)
  • Yorkshire police face sex-change dilemma: report of employment appeals tribunal hearing (Yorkshire Post 2001-07-04)
  • Two police forces employ transsexuals, tribunal told (Ananova/PA 2001-07-03)
• … while North Yorkshire police proudly presents its first officer to trnsition on the job
  • Police force unveils transsexual sergeant: North Yorkshire police announces that it is employing a transsexual officer (BBC 2001-07-20)
  • Yorkshire police present transsexual officer: N. Yorks force supports trans sergeant (The Times 2001-07-21)
  • Police force unveils transsexual sergeant: N. Yorks force reveals identity of a transsexual officer. (Ananova/PA 2001-07-20)
  • Sergeant will dress as a woman for a year before sex-swop: N. Yorks force presents transsexual officer. (Daily Mail 2001-07-21)
  • Call me Nicola, says sex-swap police officer: N. Yorks sergeant thought to be one of only four transsexual police officers in the country (Yorkshire Evening Post 2001-07-21)
  • Police chief celebrates transsexuals: N. Yorks force once criticised for discrimination endorses ’diversity’ (The Guardian 2001-07-21)
  • Transsexual Nicola for changed police force: N. Yorks sergeant to become Yorkshire’s first woman transsexual officer (Yorkshire Post 2001-07-21)

Prisons

• Jail staff lectured over colleague’s sex change (Ananova/PA 2001-02-25)

Crime

• Body dumped in sea after killing: Brother-in-law admits killing of murdered trans woman Christine Chappel (BBC 2001-03-19)
• Police appeal over fugitive: hunt for estranged wife of murdered trans woman, who skipped bail (BBC 2001-03-23)

Other

• Era of the Gender Crosser: Buoyed by the success of gay liberation and freed by medical advances, the transgender community has found a voice.  Still, life often remains complicated (Los Angeles Times 2001-02-27)
• Fitting Into Their Own Skin: for some, the emotional freedom gained by gender transition has been worth the complications (Los Angeles Times 2001-02-28)
• Gender Bending: trans people “seem unable to exist alongside any sort of ambiguity”, says polemicist Julie Burchill (The Guardian 2001-01-20)
• Father’s sex change does not alter custody, court says: Canadian trans woman (National Post 2001-02-02)
• Could reigning Miss France be a monsieur?: this year’s Miss Universe contest has been thrown into chaos by allegations that Miss France is transsexual or transvestite (Daily Telegraph 2001-04-25)
• Cyber-row as Miss France gets ’man’ label: rumours that Miss France is transsexual or transvestite spread on the internet(BBC 2001-04-25)