It is a chilling thought that it took no less than 26 years, from 1970 until October 1996, for British law to decide that when a rapist's penis violates a transsexual woman's vagina, they perhaps ought to call it rape. What they thought it was for the preceeding quarter century merely added insult to injury. After 17 Years As recently as July 1996 it is still thought acceptable, however, to let a partner use her partner's transsexual past as a neat ploy to deny him a share in her inheritance. The media clearly weren't impressed by the wife's claims that she'd not realised her husband was a trans man, but presumably judges live more sheltered lives. The edited correspondence of Dr Angus Campbell, a family law specialist, discussing the P vs S case and its' logic with PFC's Christine Burns.
Success is a magnet for lawyers, and the government is becoming increasingly beleaguered.
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