Gender Recognition Act Consultation Addendum (2009) This is an advance view of part of a chapter in the Appendices of my forthcoming book The War on Gender ~ Postmodernism and Trans Identity In 2009 I participated in a research study at Leeds University on how people who had been affected by the 2004 Gender Recognition Act felt about it. After I had given my initial interview I felt that I should expand on what I had said as I felt that perhaps I had not been entirely clear about my views. This is the full text [with minor redactions of personal data] of the Addendum which I sent to the Research Assistant for Dr Sally Hines’ study on the views of transsexuals who had received GRCs about the importance or not of reassignment surgeries in the legal recognition of ‘acquired’ gender. My views have evolved on some of the finer points, but overall they are still in line with what I present here. The draft report initially did not factor my views into the statistical results but was afte
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