How Long Has "Trans prompting" of MPs Been Going On?
Open Door: Transex Liberation Group, BBC Two, Monday 4 June 1973
Clips from “Open Door: Transex Liberation Group, BBC Two, Monday 4 June 1973
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06c83f4
Background music: "How Long Has This Been Going On" Ace 1974
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/ace/how-long
Transcript
(timestamps from original BBC video)
Della Aleksander:
21:06 - 21:38
"In February, 1970, April Ashley or, as she was then, a Mrs. Corbett, had this, this case, the rather cause célèbre, involving her own marriage in which the judge, a Justice Ormrod, who is a doctor, decided that she was not a female for the purpose of marriage, but that she was a woman in a social sense, but not in that particular sense. And therefore, the marriage was annulled."
21:57 - 22:37
"Not long after that, Alexander Lyon, who's a Labour MP for York, brought in a bill called the Nullity Marriage Bill, which by listing all the possible grounds for nullity in British, in English law, and leaving out "of the same sex", it would be impossible for a later sex-change marriage to be decided by a Nullity Decree.
The reason why he did this was because, under a Nullity Decree, maintenance can be granted by the court to the wife, and he felt it was preposterous if the wife is in fact a male, that one male should be ordered to pay maintenance to another biological male."
22:39 - 23:28
"But I was in the House of Commons on the 5th of April, 1971(1) when the report stage with this bill came up and Alexander Lyon got up and did a very extraordinary thing.
He said he had changed his mind, having thought about it, no doubt to some extent under our prompting, and decided to bring in an amendment to his own Bill, actually countermanding the very purpose of which he'd introduced the Bill. And he did add an amendment: that Nullity could be granted to a person of the same sex, meaning Sex Changes(2). Now, therefore, under English law, a Sex Change(2) marriage is certainly legal because you can obtain Maintenance of the discretion of the court should it come to a Nullity Decree."
27:07 - 27:21
Jan Ford:
"Because it's getting more and more common now, there's . . ."
Laura Pralet:
"Well of course it is, we're not a minority."
Jan Ford:
"Well, we are a minority, but it's . . ."
Laura Pralet:
"I don't think so, Darling. I mean, there's only four of us here, but there's awful lot of people that are . . ."
Jan Ford:
"There's hundreds and possibly thousands . . ."
Laura Pralet:
"Of course there are."
Jan Ford:
"I know that."
Laura Pralet:
"Of course there are."
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(1) Actually 2nd April 1971
(2) Aleksander, and Pralet elsewhere in the video, uses the term "Sex Changes" to refer to "transsexuals who are post-op".
MORE INFO
Della Aleksander
"1./ What's the truth about the rise of the modern trans movement? Behind the largely fictional official tale there's a stranger, more interesting reality. There's a glimpse of it in this gem from the BBC archive; the first TV show made by transsexuals."
Twitter Thread by Malcolm Clark @TwisterFilms
Threadreader Archived: https://archive.is/GSfMC
1/ For those mesmerised by the sheer strangeness of Della Alexander, the producer of the first ever TV show presented by trans people in 1973 on the BBC here's an update. It appears the star of the show, the fragrant Della, was a keen supporter of Mosley and his fascists.
Twitter Thread by Malcolm Clark @TwisterFilms
Threadreader Archived: https://archive.is/NBZWL
April Ashley
"When did I first realise that extreme trans ideas are dangerous nonsense? Doubts started when I filmed with April Ashley, Britain's first transexual."
Twitter Thread by Malcolm Clark @TwisterFilms
Threadreader Archived: https://archive.fo/MELTN
Alex Lyon
https://members.parliament.uk/member/1372/career
Corbett v Corbett
Corbett v Corbett (otherwise Ashley): FD 1 Feb 1970
Swarb: Archived 15 March 2023
https://web.archive.org/web/20230315015154/https://swarb.co.uk/corbett-v-corbett-otherwise-ashley-FD-1-Feb-1970/
The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning
Corbett v Corbett and the Invention of Legal Sex
Christopher Hutton 2019
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-20271-2
Nullity of Marriage Act
Law Commission Family Law: Nullity of Marriage
https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/family-law-report-on-nullity-of-marriage/
GROUNDS ON WHICH A MARRIAGE IS VOID
HC Deb 02 April 1971 vol 814 cc1827-54
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1971/apr/02/grounds-on-which-a-marriage-is-void#S5CV0814P0_19710402_HOC_14
THE NULLITY OF MARRIAGE ACT 1971
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1972.tb01319.x
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973: Nullity
(as originally enacted)
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/18/part/I/crossheading/nullity/enacted