and also
The Blair government will have to change legislation as early as this autumn after transsexual Miss Christine Goodwin won a landmark battle for the right to be recognised as a woman and marry under British law.

Miss Goodwin, a former bus driver, took her fight to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and today a panel of judges found in her favour.

The judgment unanimously held that the UK's failure to recognise her new identity in law breached her rights to respect for private life and her right to marry under the European Convention on Human Rights.

in both cases the goverment has been made to do what is right
now the same sex marriage laws need changeing