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Title: Call to allow 'dual-gender people' to keep ID cards
Post by: Butterfly on September 16, 2010, 05:23:44 PM
Post by: Butterfly on September 16, 2010, 05:23:44 PM
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 (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.
By Emily Ashton
16 September, 2010
http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Call-to-allow-39dualgender-people39.6534020.jp (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.