In The News: 1996

1996 was a busy year in the Press For Change campaign, including the landmark victory in the case of P v S and Cornwall County Council.

We don’t have news reports of all these events … but we do have:

Overview  Employment  P v S  Access to medicine  Government & parliament  Personal stories  Other

Overview

• Press For Change News Bites, 1996
• Review of the year 1996

Employment

• Transsexual fights RAF dismissal rule (Daily Telegraph 1996-05-21)
• Transsexual turned down for job as woman Pc: report of the industrial tribunal in the case of M versus West Midlands Police
• Police feared transsexual chaos (Daily Telegraph 1996-10-10)
• Transsexual Pc ’would be a fraud’ (Daily Telegraph 1996-10-11)

P v S & Cornwall County Council

• Why I fought for the right to be female: P’s victory in the European Court of Justice (The Independent 1996-05-01)
• Transsexual wins Euro court fight: the P-v-S case (Daily Telegraph 1996-05-01)
• Ruth Harvey looks at transsexual discrimination: assessment of the P-v-S case (The Lawyer 1996-05-26)
• See also the legal index for legal documents on the P-v-S case.

Access to medicine

• Transsexual to challenge surgery ban (Daily Telegraph 1996-06-13)
• Transsexual goes to High Court over operation ban (British Medical Journal 1996-06-22)
• Funding cut halts sex change man’s breast operation (Daily Telegraph 1996-10-05)
• Transsexuals challenge rationing decision (British Medical Journal 1996-08-10)
• Killer given legal aid for sex change: (Daily Telegraph 1996-11-12)

Government & parliament

• The end of the beginning: the Alex Carlile Bill, which proposed a means for correcting the birth certificates of trans people
• Cabinet Office Papers Leaked: After P v S and the Alex Carlile Bill, the government started examining trans issues (PFC June 1996)

Personal stories

• Transsexual surgeon’s job is safe: orthopaedic surgeon Sarah Muirhead-Allwood announces her transition (Daily Telegraph 1996-04-01)
• Leading economist stuns field by deciding to become a woman: Professor Deirdre McCloskey interviewed about her transition (Chronicle of  Higher Education 1996-02-16)

Other

• Quelle Différence? Biology will defeat the Defense of Marriage Act (Slate 1996-09-10)
• Changing sex is a golf handicap (Daily Telegraph 1996-05-23)
• Wife discovers husband of 17 years is a woman: marriage annulled (Daily Telegraph 1996-07-18)
• Kilroy was … BBC TV’s Kilroy programme did another programme on trans people (PFC 1996-09-06)
• The Virgin and the Transsexual: life insurer Virgin Direct Life issue trans woman with a policy in her reassigned gender