Joint Committee On Human Rights - Nineteenth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to be printed 17 November 2003.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 The Inquiry
undertaken by the Joint Committee
2 Background to
the Draft Bill
Sex, gender, and gender dysphoria
The traditional attitude to gender reassignment
in English law
Developments in EC law and the effect on
national law in the UK
The impact of the ECHR
The recent decisions of the Strasbourg Court
and the House of Lords, and their implications
The Government's position since Goodwin
and I.
What the legislation needs to do
3 The Draft Gender
Recognition Bill
Recognition of 'acquired gender'
Should recognition be limited to post-operative
transsexual people?
Are any legal problems presented by the language
of gender rather than sex?
The effect of a recognized change of gender
The first issue: general retrospective effect
in relation to marriages
The second issue: providing a remedy for
the successful litigants and others whose cases were pending
The demands of certainty and procedures for
recognising an acquired gender
The need to apply to a Gender Recognition
Panel, and the procedural and registration requirements
The criteria for granting a gender recognition
certificate
Parties to marriages who acquire a new gender
after marriage
Anti-discrimination law
Sex discrimination on the ground of the person's
acquired gender
Discrimination on the ground that the victim
is a transsexual person
Rights of third parties
Parental responsibilities and rights
Succession to property, etc
Members of religious groups
4 Conclusion and
summary of recommendations
Conclusion
Summary of Recommendations
Formal Minutes
List of Written Evidence published in Volume
II
Written Evidence
Reports from the Joint Committee on Human
Rights since 2001
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