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
Transgender Equality Network of Ireland Transgender Equality Network of Ireland Transgender Equality Network of Ireland (TENI) (Irish: Lionra na hÉireann um Chomhionanns Transinscne) is an Irish nonprofit organisation founded in 2006, which seeks to improve conditions and rights for transgender people and their families in Ireland. In 2013 TENI launched the STAD: Stop Transphobia and Discrimination campaign. The campaign sought to raise awareness of transphobic hate crimes by collecting and providing data to stakeholders such as An Garda Síochána. The first report was launched on 18 June 2014 at the University of Limerick. The report offered six recommendations: On 3 December 2015, in partnership with