Press for Change (PFC) is a UK-based campaign group focusing on the rights and treatment oftrans people. Its stated aim is "seeking respect and equality for all trans people in the UK". The group led the campaign for full legal recognition for transgender people living in Britain including the right to marry.^[1] The organisation began on 27 February 1992 and its founders included Mark Rees^[2] andStephen Whittle.^[3][4]

• Christine BurnsMBE, former vice president.^[5]
• Angela Clayton MBE, former vice president.^[6]
• Claire McNab MBE, former vice president.^[7][8]
• Mark Rees, co founder of the group (deceased).^[2]
• ProfessorStephen Whittle,OBE,PhD vice president and co founder of the group.^[3]

Burns and Whittle were given their honours, "for services to gender issues," in relation to their work for Press for Change.^[9]

• Julie Hesmondhalgh, the actress who playsHayley Cropper inCoronation Street, the first transgender character in a Britishsoap opera.^[10]
• Baron Beaumont of Whitley,Anglican priest,life peer, first member of either theHouse of Lords orHouse of Commons to sit as a member of theGreen Party.^[11]

• Transgender rights in the United Kingdom

• Press for Change
• Press for Change onTwitter
• Webarchive link to old version of Press for Change including extensive document archive

• Transgender organisations in the United Kingdom
• Transgender rights
• 1992 establishments in the United Kingdom
• Organizations established in 1992

• Use dmy dates from September 2024
• Use British English from September 2013