Sorry Jess, but Labour were well behind. The ECHR ruled on 11 July 2002, in Goodwin & I v UK [2002] that a trans person's inability to change gender on their birth certificate was a breach of their rights under Article 8 and Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Following this judgement, the UK Government had to be dragged kicking and screaming to introduce new legislation to comply. I was there!
#transfixed
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