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Opening soon a new drop-in centre based in Rochester, Medway. The South East Gender Initiative is to open Medway Gender Centre in the new year, a new centre for transgender people. For more information see their web site
With the introduction of the Equality Act 2010 public bodies have to give due consideration to how their services impact the lives of people with protected characteristics, so as to avoid discrimination by their actions or policy's.
As Gender Identity is one of the protected characteristics, local authorities the NHS and others who carry out functions on behalf of public bodies need to assess how they treat people from trans communities including provision of health services.
This could be good news for people with gender dysphoria, transsexuals and the wider transgender community.
European Parliament: WHO to stop treating transgender people as mentally ill
In a resolution just adopted, the European Parliament has called on the World Health Organization to stop considering transgender people as mentally ill. Gender dysphoria is currently classified as a mental and behavioural disorder in the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases.
About time too! Read it all here:
EHRC - A review of access to NHS gender reassignment services (England only)
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has prepared this England only review in response to concerns expressed by trans advocacy groups and individuals that they experience particular difficulties accessing NHS gender reassignment services. The NHS is subject to the public sector equality duty and to the Human Rights Act and both of those have implications for how the NHS delivers gender reassignment services. Read it here:
In a resolution just adopted, the European Parliament has called on the World Health Organization to stop considering transgender people as mentally ill. Gender dysphoria is currently classified as a mental and behavioural disorder in the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases.
About time too! Read it all here:
EHRC -
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has prepared this England only review in response to concerns expressed by trans advocacy groups and individuals that they experience particular difficulties accessing NHS gender reassignment services. The NHS is subject to the public sector equality duty and to the Human Rights Act and both of those have implications for how the NHS delivers gender reassignment services. Read it here:
