The government reportedly said that the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill (given a second reading in October 2007) would be amended to make it illegal to incite hatred against gay, lesbian, transgender, and disabled people.
Source: The Guardian, 6 November 2007
Links: Guardian report | TUC press release | Mayor of London press release | BBC report
Date: 2007-Nov
An article examined practices of care within transgender support and self-help groups. An analysis of transgender practices of care was not only important in relation to issues of social inclusion, citizenship, and welfare provision, but also key to sociological understandings of the diversity of shifting practices of identity, intimacy, and care in contemporary society.
Source: Sally Hines, 'Transgendering care: practices of care within transgender communities', Critical Social Policy, Volume 27 Issue 4
Links: Abstract
Date: 2007-Nov
A new book examined transgender identity formation, and transgender practices of intimacy and care.
Source: Sally Hines, TransForming Gender: Transgender practices of identity, intimacy and care, Policy Press, available from Marston Book Services (01235 465500)
Links: Summary
Date: 2007-Sep
A report provided a broad evidence base to assist statutory bodies in Northern Ireland in considering transgender issues in the development of policy and practice.
Source: Ulf Hansson and Molly Hurley Depret, Equality Mainstreaming: Policy and Practice for Transgender People, Institute for Conflict Research (028 9074 2682)
Links: Report
Date: 2007-Aug
A report (prepared for the official Equalities Review) examined transgender and transsexual people's experiences of inequality and discrimination.
Source: Stephen Whittle, Lewis Turner and Maryam Al-Alami, Engendered Penalties: Transgender and transsexual people's experiences of inequality and discrimination, Equalities Review/Department for Communities and Local Government (0870 1226 236)
Links: Report
Date: 2007-Feb