Christine Goodwin
(1937-2014)
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Christine Goodwin (4 June 1937 – 8 December 2014) was a British transgender rights activist who played a crucial role in forcing the UK government to introduce the Gender Recognition Act 2004. She was a former bus driver who underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1990, at Charing Cross Hospital, London, before eventually challenging the UK government in the European Court of Human Rights over her inability to draw a state pension at the same age as other women. In Goodwin & I v United Kingdom the ECHR ruled that the UK had breached her rights under the European Convention of Human Rights. In response the UK introduced the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
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4 June 1937 Beau Brickhill, Woburn, United Kingdom
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| Died |
8 December 2014 (aged 77)
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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