'Are you transsexual?' What residents were asked using taxpayers' money by coun

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'Are you transsexual?' What residents were asked using taxpayers' money by council bosses planning to build a ROAD

    Survey designed to promote equality
    Questions also sent to people seeking blue badges
    Eric Pickles called for end to 'intrusive questionnaires'

By Larisa Brown

PUBLISHED: 22:53 EST, 25 December 2012 | UPDATED: 05:49 EST, 26 December 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2253238/Are-transsexual-What-residents-asked-council-bosses-planning-build-ROAD.html

The two factors don't seem to have the strongest of connections.

But councils planning to build a relief road have asked their residents whether they are transsexual.

The taxpayer-funded survey asks, specifically, whether their birth gender is different to their current gender, in a move designed to promote equality.

Council chiefs said the research was intended to ensure their consultation on the building of the road reflected their duty towards equality and social inclusion.

Taxpayers in Stockport, Cheshire East and Manchester City have been asked to fill in the 'social inclusion' questionnaire, which critics have labelled as a 'load of rubbish'.

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Want a new road? Are you transgender?
Councils consulting on the building of a relief road have asked residents whether their birth gender is different to their current gender in their latest bid to promote equality.

By Hannah Furness
9:16AM GMT 26 Dec 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9756253/Want-a-new-road-Are-you-transgender.html

Taxpayers in Stockport, Cheshire East and Manchester City have been asked to fill in a "social inclusion" questionnaire detailing their gender, race, religion and sexual preferences.

One question asks: "Is your gender identity the same as the gender you were assigned with at birth?"

The survey, sent out as part of a consultation into the A6 to Manchester Airport relief road, is also understood to have been provided to people seeking blue badges for disabled parking.

Resident Richard Howarth, a 77-year-old retired international banker, said he was frustrated at his taxes being used to fund such initiatives.

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O K , my question is WHY ellen