15 minutes on Me Stephen Whittle OBE Ph

15 minutes on Me Stephen Whittle, OBE, Ph. D, 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

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. • 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.