Call to allow 'dual-gender people' to keep ID cards

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Call to allow 'dual-gender people' to keep ID cards
By Emily Ashton
16 September, 2010


http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Call-to-allow-39dualgender-people39.6534020.jp


British citizens who wish to live as both a man and a woman should be able to keep their identity cards or be allowed two passports.

With the government set to scrap the £5 billion ID cards scheme, shadow Home Office minister Meg Hillier and Labour MP Julie Hilling are arguing that transgender people will lose out because the cards allowed them to travel abroad as a different gender.