In The News: 1997

Overview  The X, Y & Z case  Trans children  Personal stories  Legal  Other

Overview

• PFC News Bites 1997
• Review of the year 1997
• Editorial: nobody wanted to disagree
• The end of a chapter

The X, Y & Z case

• X, Y and Z: introduction X, Y and Z’s father isn’t recognised by the law as their parent
• Waiting for Justice
• Waiting for Justice - The Wife’s Story
• Waiting for Justice - The Fallout
• The ABC of XYZ
• Stephen Whittle, law lecturer (Daily Telegraph 1997-03-22)

Trans children

• When a child wants to change sex (Sunday Express 1997-10-26)
  • The dolls we gave were destroyed (Sunday Express 1997-10-26)
  • Youngsters trapped by turmoil (Sunday Express 1997-10-26)
  • How could God make me wrong? (Sunday Express 1997-10-26)

Personal stories

• Changing Sex: profiles of trans people (Daily Telegraph 1997-03-22)
  • Susan Marshall, bursar
  • Christine Lions, Secretary
  • Stephen Whittle, Law Lecturer
  • Bernadette Rogers, retired director
• Dr John to return as Dr Joanna, patients told (Daily Telegraph 1997-02-20)
• Lady Colin Campbell: "A Life Worth Living" (Independent On Sunday 1997-06-29)

Legal

• Key Win by transsexuals — Employment Appeals Tribunal rules that it is illegal to discriminate against transexual people (The Guardian 1997-07-15)
• Ireland: Gender change on birth cert sought (Irish Times 1997-04-15)
• Transsexual told that she can’t become a WPc — report of the IT ruling on the case of M versus West Midlands Police (Daily Telegraph 1997-01-08)
• Sex-change Pc returns in support role (Daily Telegraph 1997-04-02)
• Transsexuals win latest round on ’recognition’ (Daily Telegraph 1997-03-20)
• Ministers drop plan for human rights authority (Daily Telegraph 1997-07-05)
• Human Rights First for Britain - and other matters legal — looking forward to the incorporation into UK law of the European Convention on Human Rights. (PFC, 1997-10-25)

Other

• BAC: termination of membership of Fran Springfield
• Minister denounces lottery grant (Daily Telegraph 1997-01-14)
• A Change for the Good — actor Steven Mackintosh describes playing a trans woman in the film ’Different for Girls’. (Los Angeles Times 1997-09-19)
• Consultant Makes Difference in ’Different for Girls’ — trans woman Adele Anderson was an advisor, and also appeared in the film (Los Angeles Times 1997-09-18)
• Dana, queen of the Levant : is the pop singer really breaking sexual barriers in Israel? (Ha’aretz 1997-12-03)
• Transsexual pop singer proves too unorthodox (Daily Telegraph 1997-11-25)