Legal aracana
• Gender Outsiders: Transgendered & Others
Legislation to give legal recognition to transsexuals could in theory result in a woman who was born male being charged and convicted of rape, the Government said tonight.
Junior constitutional affairs minister Lord Filkin told Tory ex-Cabinet minister Lord Tebbit: “A transsexual person who has been legally recognised as a woman by law in the UK under gender recognition legislation could be charged with, and found guilty of the rape of, another female person.”

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Posted by: Mithras | January 20, 2004 04:53 PM