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Sarah Brown is a transgender activist and Liberal Democrat politician. She was the Cambridge City Councillor for Petersfield ward between 2010 and 2014,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Councillor Sarah Brown )〕serving as Executive Councillor for Community Wellbeing since 2013 and currently also serves as a member of the LGBT+ Liberal Democrats executive. She is a trans woman and, for several years, was the only openly transsexual elected politician in the UK. In 2011, she appeared on the Independent on Sunday "Pink List" as the 28th most influential LGBT person in the UK,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 The IoS Pink List 2011 )〕 dropping to 34th in the 2012 list,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 The IoS Pink List 2012 )〕 but rising again to 27th in the 2013 list.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 The Independent on Sunday's Pink List 2013 )〕 Brown is an advocate for equal marriage, and has several times discussed marriage laws as they affected her; her 2001 marriage to her wife Sylvia Knight was annulled upon gaining a Gender Recognition Certificate in 2009, and she described her subsequent civil partnership to Knight as a "kick in the teeth". Her case was cited during the report stage of the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill, when her MP Julian Huppert moved a series of amendments, which included a set intended to allow couples who dissolved their marriages under the Gender Recognition Act to retroactively restore their marriage. Brown also advocates for improved provisions for transgender people under the National Health Service, and created the "#transdocfail" hashtag on Twitter and collated several thousand tweets talking about abuse of transgender patients that she alleges exposed "institutional transphobia" in the medical profession that "would be on the national news" if it "was happening to any other minority".〔 Brown is currently in a polyamorous relationship with Knight and fellow Liberal Democrat and transgender activist Zoe O'Connell, although none of them describe themselves as "poly evangelists".〔 All three partners contributed to a Guardian column discussing polyamory in the context of transition and Brown's previous marriage, which was later cited by Huppert during the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill debate.〔 She is currently a trustee of Cambridgeshire LGBT charities Encompass Network〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Us )〕 and SexYOUality〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=9 December 2014 )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarah Brown (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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