A taxpayer-funded transgender lobby group that has trained hundreds of NHS staff is demanding the abolition of legal gender for everyone in the country as well as an end to birth certificates and for sex-change hormones to be given free on demand to children.

Action for Trans Health (ATH) and its director, Jess Bradley, were central to the recent parliamentary inquiry that recommended controversial reforms — which the government will soon consult on — allowing transgender people to change sex on demand.

Bradley, who gave oral evidence to the inquiry, and her group were cited seven times in the MPs’ report, which adopted several of ATH’s recommendations and claims. The group’s views are significantly more radical, however, than those that were expressed to the MPs.