The case of A v the Chief Constable of the West Yorkshire Police and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions may be of interest, although it relates to the definition of the gender for the purposes of employment. The case also gets rather messy due to the matter of intimate body searches (as it would!).
http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2002/1584.html
You could always try 'Dear Sir or Madam'.
Janice Priestley
HR Projects Officer
Human Resources
Leeds Metropolitan University
16 Queen Square
Leeds
LS2 8AJ
Tel: 0113 283 1984
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