I'm largely immersed at the moment in a myriad of different medium to learn as much as I can about the world of Transgender in attempts to learn and understand as much as possible before putting pen to paper for my dissertation.  Tonight I've been reading about the Gender Recognition Panel that was set up in 2005 in response to the 2004 Gender Recognition Act.  I'm genuinely at a loss to decide whether I think it's great that the government have set this up, or saddened that it's had to be set up in the first place...