Gender based prohibitions in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act
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The act, as amended in 2008, includes provisions and prohibitions which have been at the heart of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) s activity since the charity was founded in 1992. PET has campaigned for and influenced changes to the HFE Act on a number of topical matters; these include amending legislation in the UK to permit mitochondrial donation for women with mitochondrial disease and removing the ten-year limit on social egg freezing (see Extend the Limit).
Due to a number of significant social and scientific advances, the HFE Act has become outdated and could benefit from further amendments.
4 March 2021 • 12:02am
Lady of the manor, 11th-century Godiva, cradles a cat at St George’s church, Woolhope
Credit: Liam Bunce/Alamy
SIR – The Rev David Keighley says: “It is sinful not to sell empty churches” (report, March 2). By his definition, my local parish church is “a museum gathering dust”. I beg to differ.
Our congregations rarely exceed 30, other than for major festivals and (in non-Covid circumstances) weddings and funerals, but possibly they have not done so for centuries past.
Yet the church has been at the heart of the village since before the Norman Conquest and, God willing, will remain so for at least another millennium.
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1:51 PM February 22, 2021
The mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville; the speaker of Hackney, Cllr Kam Adams; and cabinet member for employment, skills and human resources, Cllr Carole Williams raised the inclusive rainbow flag over Hackney Town Hall in 2020
- Credit: Sean Pollock/Hackney council
Hackney leaders are calling for urgent reform of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) to make it easier for transgender people to legally change gender.
Hackney s mayor, Philip Glanville, called the act outdated and urged ministers to mark LGBT+ history month by reforming the process, as countries like Ireland and Argentina have done, to allow people to amend their birth certificate through self-declaration, without the need for diagnosis or assessment.
A few days ago, I had an operation to correct a condition that had gone from being an inconvenience to something potentially much more dangerous. Touch wood, the procedure went well. Certainly, my surgeon seemed satisfied when he saw me a day later.
As for the nurses who looked after me, they couldn t have been kinder or more patient as in lay there in my M&S nightie, from which tubes emerged carrying all manner of bodily fluids to various plastic bags.
When they asked me, I said I was happy to be called Diana, as opposed to Ms Thomas. Mostly, though, I was love , my darling , or even, on one occasion, sweetheart .
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As transphobia continues to run riot in the UK, Michelle Snow explains how we got to this point.
Many around the world have asked why the UK is so transphobic. There are many theories but the reason isn’t complicated. Turning the UK into a world-renowned transphobia hot-bed was profitable. And the perpetrators knew exactly how to do it. They had done it before.
In 2015, parliament held an inquiry into transgender equality and released many recommendations including: reform of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA), reform of NHS gender identity services, allowing 16-year-olds to change their legal sex and legal recognition for non-binary people.