I imagine that I am not the only person who feels that this has been pursued beyond the purposes of this list.
Unfortunately this is a very emotive subject. Those who accept the concept of gender change inevitably find the views of those who do not indefensible, and those who have problems with the concept inevitably find acceptance indefensible. A bigot is a person ‘obstinately and unreasonably wedded to a particular opinion’; consequently on each side of the argument the opposite point of view is seen as bigotry. So perhaps we should call a halt to emotive expressions of opinion, which belong in other places than this list, and try to restrict ourselves to data protection implications.
In the hope that I have not revealed an opinion on either side.
Elizabeth Boardman
Archivist
Brasenose and St. Hilda’s Colleges
Oxfordshire Health Archives
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