Stephen Whittle

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stephen Whittle
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	May 29, 1955(1955-05-29)
Age	69
Birthplace	Altrincham
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Stephen Whittle Biography

Stephen Whittle is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on May 29, 1955 in Altrincham, England, United Kingdom. Whittle was born on May 29, 1955 in Altrincham Cottage Hospital, Greater Manchester His grandmother was a nurse in charge. He was assigned a female nurse at the time of his birth. He was sickly with rickets. The middle of the five children of his family. In 1955 , the family resided in Wythenshawe. In the year 1955, Wythenshawe was said to be the largest council estate in Europe offering workers to working on the Trafford Park Estate. After a number of years of treatment with sun lamps for his rickets at St Mary’s Hospital, he was deemed fit enough to be able to go to Havely Hay Primary school at age five. The family relocated into Withington village, which is an inner suburb in Manchester. At the age of eight, He attended Old Moat Junior school.

The year 1989 was the time he created Britain’s FTM Network which he coordinated until the end of November. In 1992, alongside Mark Rees, the actress Myka Scott, and an air pilot Krystyna Sheffield, he established and became vice-president for Press for Change that works to alter the law and attitudes regarding transgender and transsexual people. Whittle is still Vice- President (there is no president because it’s a consensual group) and Press for Change was called “one of the most successful lobby groups seen in the last 25 years” by Lord Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew in 1994, at the time of the reading of the Gender Reassignment Bill. The bill was rejected, however “for 40 minutes members of parliament discussed trans people which without it, would have never happened.” Whittle had phalloplasty surgeries between 2001 and 2003. His Channel 4 documentary Make me a Man followed his journey through the surgery.

In 2002, Whittle was given the Human Rights Award by the Civil Rights group Liberty, for his commitment and dedication to ensuring the advancement of rights for transsexual people through judicial means in the UK, Europe, and around the world.

In 2002, Whittle was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Having experienced a variety of health problems since his early 20s, he had had suspicions and was neither surprised nor terrified by the diagnosis. His multiple sclerosis has been an increasing problem since late 2005, yet he continues in his full-time university post, and his fight for the human rights of trans people throughout he world. In recent years, he has collaborated with other members; Paisley Currah, Shannon Minter and Alyson Meiselmann, of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health WPATH on amicus briefs to courts in many jurisdictions. In 2007, he was the first non-medical professional and first trans person to become President of WPATH. Whittle continues to write extensively on the law and policy surrounding transsexual and transgender people, along with several recent academic articles returning to the question of the law and trans people. He also continues to work on what he hopes will be the defining history of transgender, and the sources of the many theories surrounding gender variant people. Throughout his life he has maintained an interest in the avant-garde of the arts, and has started to collaborate with Sara Davidmann, a photographer and Lecturer in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art.

In 1974, Whittle was a FTM trans-man, following returning from an women’s Liberation Conference in Edinburgh where he was part of the Manchester Lesbian Collective. He started treatment with hormones in the year 1975. He’s been active in transgender and transsexual groups at the tender age of twenty-one when , in 1975, He joined the Manchester TV/TS group which had begun in 1972 by two trans women . It was the first group of support for transsexuals within the United Kingdom. In 1979, he joined the former army officer , and later the royal sculptor Judy Couzins, a trans woman, in the Self Help Association for Transsexuals (SHAFT).

Stephen Whittle Net Worth

Stephen Whittle is one of the richest Writer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stephen Whittle 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Stephen Thomas Whittle, OBE FACS (born on 29th May, 1955) is an British lawyer and activist in Press for Change, a transgender militant organisation Press for Change. Since 2007, he’s been a professor of Equalities Law in the School of Law at Manchester Metropolitan University. In 2007-2009 He was the president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Being a female from birth, he’s classified by the organization as “a radical lesbian before his sex change and now a leading commentator on gender issues” and, following when the Gender Recognition Act 2004 came into effect in April 2005, was recognized legally as a man , and was legally able to marry his female companion.

In 1966, his mother Barbara Elizabeth Whittle (nee Stead) who was worried about the differences between him and his sisters, enrolled his name in the test for the Withington Girls’ School. He was among the top scorers in the city for the exam for Eleven plus in the same year, he was awarded an award to attend. It was while he was at the school that he began to read medical texts. He knew that he was sexually with other girls at school but never revealed it to the girls, and therefore the love he felt was never shared – but he realized that the attraction to sexual pleasure was strong for males. In addition, he had an intense desire to become an adult, to have beards and have a sexy chest. He read about men such as Della Aleksander and April Ashley who had experienced an sex shift. In 1972 at the age of 16 while going to the doctor for an aching throat, he read about a trans-man.

Though unable to marry legally in the United Kingdom until the passing of the Gender Recognition Act 2004, he and his partner (now wife), Sarah Rutherford, have four children by artificial insemination. Whittle wrote in Disembodied Law: Trans People’s Legal(Outer) Space, “I face an inadequate legal framework in which to exist. We are simply ‘not’ within a world that only permits two sexes, only allows two forms of gender role, gender identity or expression. Always falling outside of the ‘norm’ our lives become less, our humanity is questioned, and our oppression is legitimized.” The Whittles’ efforts to gain recognition of Stephen as their children’s legal father led to X, Y and Z v. The United Kingdom before the European Court of Human Rights in 1996. When the Gender Recognition Act 2004 came into force in April 2005, Whittle obtained a new, male birth certificate. He then married Sarah (née Rutherford) later that year. They had been cohabiting since 1979. They have four children by artificial insemination, the first of whom was born on 13 October 1992. In April 2006, they jointly adopted the children, making Whittle their legal father.

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In March 2015, Whittle was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).

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