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An Out-of-the-closet, Female to Male, Transgender Lawyer Has Just Been Elected President-Elect of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA)
On Saturday, 30 April, at the Second Plenary for the Annual Convention of the International Foundation for Gender Education (ifge.org), Eli Coleman, Ph.D., at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the Past-President of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) announced that at its recent meeting in Italy only a few weeks ago, the HBIGDA elected Stephen Whittle, Professor of Law in Manchester, England, to be its new President-Elect.
This is very significant. Stephen has been an out FTM legal activist since at least 1992 that I am aware of, and probably even before that. A few of his achievements involved "Pressing for Change" in cases before the Europe Court of Justice to require England to override the horrible 1970 "Corbett" decision which pronounced chromosomes to be the sole determination of legal sex. And he continued to then press the British Parliament to enact the 2004 Gender Recognition Act which recognizes the medically corrected sex of individuals to also be their legal sex.
As Dr. Coleman pointed out, this is one of the many changes ongoing in the medical professions' shift in paradigms in its work with the trans immunity. Prof. Steven Whittle will be the first TG to be its international president. (Significantly also, out MTF lawyer Alyson Meiselman of Maryland -- ameiselman@... -- will be the head of the Legal Committee for HBIGDA.)
An Out-of-the-closet, Female to Male, Transgender Lawyer Has Just Been Elected President-Elect of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA)
On Saturday, 30 April, at the Second Plenary for the Annual Convention of the International Foundation for Gender Education (ifge.org), Eli Coleman, Ph.D., at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the Past-President of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) announced that at its recent meeting in Italy only a few weeks ago, the HBIGDA elected Stephen Whittle, Professor of Law in Manchester, England, to be its new President-Elect.
This is very significant. Stephen has been an out FTM legal activist since at least 1992 that I am aware of, and probably even before that. A few of his achievements involved "Pressing for Change" in cases before the Europe Court of Justice to require England to override the horrible 1970 "Corbett" decision which pronounced chromosomes to be the sole determination of legal sex. And he continued to then press the British Parliament to enact the 2004 Gender Recognition Act which recognizes the medically corrected sex of individuals to also be their legal sex.
As Dr. Coleman pointed out, this is one of the many changes ongoing in the medical professions' shift in paradigms in its work with the trans immunity. Prof. Steven Whittle will be the first TG to be its international president. (Significantly also, out MTF lawyer Alyson Meiselman of Maryland -- ameiselman@... -- will be the head of the Legal Committee for HBIGDA.)
