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Title: Hillier appeals to transgender community to save ID cards
Post by: Butterfly on July 12, 2010, 05:06:36 PM
Hillier appeals to transgender community to save ID cards
By Jane Fae Ozimek
12 July, 2010


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/12/hillier_id_cards/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/12/hillier_id_cards/)


New Labour never give up. Even out of government, they are still looking for groups of individuals who, they believe, are just salivating at the prospect of the chance to carry a shiny new ID card.

The latest group lucky enough to enter their sights just happens to be the transgendered. The Identity Documents Bill, which is intended to assert the Coalition's new position vis-à-vis matters like identity cards is currently at the Committee stage in the House of Commons