Brighton Council plans to remove Mr and Mrs titles from all documents to protect city's transgender community from offence

    Plans come after council investigated the lives of the city's transgender community
    One councillor brands move 'ludicrous' but plan will go ahead if public back support it

By Anna Edwards

PUBLISHED: 07:08 EST, 25 October 2012 | UPDATED: 19:22 EST, 25 October 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2222991/Brighton-Council-plans-remove-Mr-Mrs-titles-documents-protect-citys-transgender-community-offence.html

A city is proposing to ban titles such as Mr, Mrs, Miss and Ms in case they offend the transgender community.

Councillors in Brighton will vote on the proposal to remove the words from official forms and paperwork after complaints that they forced people to 'choose between genders'.

The proposal is backed by Brighton and Hove City Council deputy leader Phelim MacCafferty, who has called the titles 'useless'.

But the new proposal has been branded 'political correctness gone too far' by an opposition councillor who says the idea is 'ludicrous'.

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LGBT activist Steph Scott said: 'Being called Mr or Mrs forces me to choose between genders.

'It's assuming people live in a binary world where you're either one thing or another and it pigeonholes people.

I may step on a few toes here but I think this is madness, just take a look at the comments section & see how much negative feeling is being caused by the mere suggestion of dropping titles.
If Brighton council want to prevent offence then this is definately the wrong way to do it, it's blindingly obvious to me that if they want to avoid offending almost everyone & setting back TG ecceptance then why not put a tick box on forms so people can opt out of having a title.
Surely even our inept leaders could think of this?

Proposal to scrap Mr & Mrs from Brighton and Hove council forms

12:40pm Thursday 25th October 2012 in News Exclusive By Bill G


http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10007505.Is_it_the_end_for_Mr___Mrs_/

http://present.brighton-hove.gov.uk/Published/C00000741/M00004371/AI00030090/TransGroupsVisitsThemesAug2012pdf.pdf


Citizens of Brighton and Hove may no longer be called Mr or Mrs under new plans.

All titles could be scrapped from official council forms and paperwork after transgender activists complained the names forced people to choose between genders.

The proposal, which has the backing of Brighton and Hove City Council's deputy leader Phelim MacCafferty, has been branded "utterly ludicrous" by an opposition councillor.