44.Submission from Allena Tyrell
1. Statement by Ms Rosie Winterton, Parliamentary
Secretary Lord Chancellors Department, 13 December 2002.
"We have concluded that there is no need
for transsexual people to be given new National Insurance numbers
on registering in their acquired gender. NI numbers give no indication
of gender, and employment and data protection legislation should
give adequate protection against careless or malicious disclosure
in the rare instances where the number enables a link to be made
between former and current identities."
That was last year, it is evident this is not
compatible with amendments to birth certificates, we also see
no reason to change National Insurance numbers only the system
within these organisations to conform with the new law. Information
is hard to obtain from busy senior staff, leads to extra work
mistakes and delays, others can verify this fact. No doubt the
Committee is aware of this. The following evidence is meant to
assist in ensuring against loopholes in the law and to prevent
institutional sex discrimination of an adverse nature within the
meaning of the Sex Discrimination Acts , therefore avoiding the
UK Government breaking its own rule of law.
2. The following letters and print outs
from the DWP illustrate how confused the present system is resulting
in loss of identity[59]
3. Employment Application NHS—typical
example, including hurried notes written on top of letter, my
notepad, and anonymous e-mail from ex-workplace team mate[60]
4. In conclusion, it's possible to supply
you with much more information from Inland Revenue, we can ask
for police rules and guidelines, Education Authority Records,
DVLC, lack of legal advocacy access to lawyers, the Armed Forces,
Passport Office, Census Records, it even extends to local bye
laws for public toilets, the Citizens Advice Bureau, access to
local Women's Refuge in domestic violence situations, this would
be endless. In any case much of this evidence has been presented
to UK Courts in a few cases includes life threatening violence,
murder and rape. I myself suffer from post traumatic stress syndrome.
This is the well documented background which surely you will have
no difficulty in getting.
The evidence shown here is of a highly sensitive
nature and forms a part of my daily life, the dual identity government
rules are much hated by many and feared by others. This is an
objective rational account and is intended to supply you with
information that the majority of us do not disclose willingly.
No CRB evidence is supplied as I have not been fortunate enough
to be offered employment in the Education System although I hold
relevant qualifications and despite many applications. Another
point is the lack of representation in ticking of boxes in the
routine monitoring of equal opportunities this surely needs no
presentation of evidence all of the forms are easily available
to anyone. This evidence is purposely kept as short as to avoid
endless repetition, you will no doubt have received more from
other sources and original letters and notes are shown where possible.
In perspective have included newspaper reports these are read
world wide.
5. Specific Issue Conclusion—Sensitive
Access DWP and NHS
After being granted the Gender Recognition Certificate
and obtaining an amended Birth Certificate storing the aforementioned
information as outlined in paragraph 2 and 3, with restricted
sensitive information, {a valid reason for retaining is certainly
required for the CRB), the new proposed Bill needs to make it
clear that all of this kind of data information must not be brought
up at all whatsoever on a daily basis as irrelevant to objective
true real identity, at present only being accessed by certain
particular staff, in this instance we are meaning specific gender
status, the Gender Recognition Certificate would be an excellent
point of reference, to maintain continuity of service we see the
need for retaining the one and only National Insurance number.
The old information should be stored in a similar way as is done
at present with DVLC Driving Licences and Passports[61]
Civil servants and professional government administrators are
well able to deal with this with today's systems, it may indeed
make improvements to the workload. This submission cannot make
exact suggestions on the technical aspects of how it runs. In
this very real world a dual gender identity is totally impractical,
unworkable and impossible, yet educated middle class NHS health
care professionals, Civil Servants and Ms Rosie Winterton (Parliamentary
Secretary, Lord Chancellors Department, 13 December 2002) appear
to think this. Some psychologists and sociologists say this is
a mass delusion, or is it due in part to lack of documentary evidence
and misinformation? This submission is meant to add to all of
the evidence you already have at your disposal.
6. Post script peripheral information
In perspective these kind of accurate news items
are read worldwide, have met ordinary people from many countries,
who are more informed of this subject than their counterparts
in the UK.
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