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Europe's first transgender MP vowed on Tuesday to fight for a law giving Italian transsexuals the right to legally change their recorded gender .
Vladimir Luxuria, an MP with Premier Romano Prodi's centre-left governing coalition, said in a magazine interview that she would lobby for legislation along the lines of Britain's Gender Recognition Act .