April Ashley April Ashley April Ashley, MBE (born 29 April 1935) is an English model and restaurant hostess. She was outed as a transgender woman by the "Sunday People" newspaper in 1961 and is one of the earliest British people known to have had sex reassignment surgery. Born George Jamieson in Sefton General Hospital, Liverpool, she was one of six surviving children of a Roman Catholic father, Frederick Jamieson, and a Protestant mother, Ada Brown Jamieson. In her childhood in Liverpool, Ashley suffered from both calcium deficiency, requiring weekly calcium injections at the Alder Hey Children's Hospital, and bed-wetting, resulting in her
Special measures for gender equality in the United Nations Improvement of the Status of Women in the Secretariat (ST/SGB/1999/9), is responsible for monitoring and implementation of policies of gender equality, including "Special Measures".<ref name="ST/IC/2014/1*"></ref><ref name="ST /SGB/1999/9"></ref> The current Policies for ' appointments, placement and promotion' to obtain gender equality in the United Nations system are outlined in ST/SGB/282 (Policies to achieve Gender Equality in the United nations),<ref name="ST/SGB/282"></ref> and ST/AI/1999/9(Special measures for Achievement of gender Equality), which entered into force on 1 October 1999. Gender Equality A/I is listed under the heading 'Appointments, placement and promotion" in the Index to Administrative Issuance in effect as on 31 December 2013.