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Elizabeth Bellinger

EDM number 1664 in 1997-98, proposed by Lynne Jones on 20/10/1998.

That this House applauds the courage of Mrs Elizabeth Bellinger, who, 17 years after being awarded custody of her step-daughter by a court fully aware of her medical history, has decided to tell her story; notes that, technically, both her marriage and the adoption of her daughter are legally invalid because she is transsexual; believes that the love and care she has given to and received from her husband and daughter are not less as a result of her condition; recognises the huge risks she has decided to take, in terms of family relations and personal privacy, to publicise the plight of those, who, like she, are denied many basic civil rights because they are transsexual; and calls on the Government to bring in reforms to guarantee civil recognition of an individual's corrected sex.

This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Lynne Jones20/10/1998Birmingham, Selly OakLabourProposed
Jackie Ballard20/10/1998TauntonLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Jones21/10/1998CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Derek Wyatt21/10/1998Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Harry Barnes21/10/1998North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
John Austin21/10/1998Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Paul Flynn21/10/1998Newport WestLabourSigned
Hilton Dawson21/10/1998Lancaster & WyreLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone21/10/1998Brent EastLabourSigned
Oona King21/10/1998Bethnal Green & BowLabourSigned
Paul Keetch21/10/1998HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Kerry Pollard21/10/1998St AlbansLabourSigned
Alan Simpson22/10/1998Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Evan Harris22/10/1998Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Valerie Davey22/10/1998Bristol WestLabourSigned
Mike Hancock22/10/1998Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer26/10/1998KeighleyLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard26/10/1998WalthamstowLabourSigned
Rudi Vis26/10/1998Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Donald Gorrie27/10/1998Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Sandra Osborne27/10/1998AyrLabourSigned
Alice Mahon27/10/1998HalifaxLabourSigned
Malcolm Chisholm28/10/1998Edinburgh North & LeithLabourSigned
Iain Coleman28/10/1998Hammersmith & FulhamLabourSigned
Roseanna Cunningham28/10/1998PerthScottish National PartySigned
Bob Laxton02/11/1998Derby NorthLabourSigned
Tom Brake02/11/1998Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Gibson03/11/1998Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Phil Woolas03/11/1998Oldham East & SaddleworthLabourSigned
Brian White03/11/1998North East Milton KeynesLabourSigned
Desmond Turner03/11/1998Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Christine Butler03/11/1998Castle PointLabourSigned
Phyllis Starkey03/11/1998Milton Keynes South WestLabourSigned
Robert Smith03/11/1998West Aberdeenshire & KincardineLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell04/11/1998Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Jamie Cann04/11/1998IpswichLabourSigned
Julia Drown04/11/1998South SwindonLabourSigned
Marsha Singh05/11/1998Bradford WestLabourSigned
Clive Efford12/11/1998ElthamLabourSigned
Tony Baldry12/11/1998BanburyConservativeSigned

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