Stephen Whittle, OBE, PhD, MA, LLB, BA
Professor of Equalities Law, Manchester Metropolitan University
Vice-President; Press for Change
President of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health

claim their position as transsexual people and then to move beyond it and become post-transsexual - to gain a status beyond the medical and social category

John Wesley, 1703-1791

On my honour, I promise that I will do my best to do my duty to God, and to the Queen, to help other people and to keep the Scout
Law.

• “Don't be afraid to act for fear of making a mistake. A man who never made a mistake never made anything.“
• R. Baden Powell, 1857-1941

• Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), A Streetcar
Named Desire (1947)

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above
Tintern Abbey
That best portion of a good man’s life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
• William Wordsworth (1770–1850), v l. 34-6, Lyrical
Ballads (1798).

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
•John Wesley, 1702-1791

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster.
Your life will never be the same again.