Angela Clayton Explained

Angela Helen Clayton
Birth Date:1959
Death Date:8 January
Death Place:Reading, Berkshire, England
Occupation:Physicist

Angela Helen Clayton MBE (1959  - 8 January 2014[1]) was an internationally known physicist working in the fields of Nuclear Criticality Safety and Health Physics. She was also a campaigner for the rights of transgender people.

Professional career

Her professional accomplishments included:

She held various roles in Safety Committees and the Reactor Safety Panel at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (now AWE, plc). She was interested in the subjects of criticality safety and Radiological Protection - Health Physics.

Clayton was also active in national and local Prospect trade union activities, including serving on the pension National Executive Committee (NEC) Advisory Sub Committee[4] and was an elected trustee of the AWE Pension Scheme from 1 February 2009 - 1 February 2011.[5] [6] [7]

After her early retirement in March 2011 on medical grounds due to complications from an old automobile accident in 1996, she pursued various artistic and intellectual activities including acquiring a large telescope with which she could engage in a lifelong love of astronomy.

Her most recent degree was in Law from the Open University. She graduated with a first in April 2009.

Personal life

Her early interactions with medical practitioners were described as traumatic, leading her to transition without medical support. After living several years as a woman, she reengaged with medical practitioners to obtain surgery.[8]

She worked as a campaigner with Press for Change beginning in 1999 and later served as their vice-president. Her interest in the role of trade unions in promoting equality for trans people led her to become the first “trans observer” to the UK Trades Union Congress (TUC) LGBT Committee. She was also involved in the development and implementation of the Gender Recognition Act 2004.[8]

She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in June 2005 "for services to gender issues".[9] Clayton was a speaker at the Greater London LGBT Organising Day in February 2008.[10] She contributed to the "Trans Data Position Paper" for the National Statistics: UK Statistics Authority in 2009.[11]

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/readingchronicle-uk/obituary-preview.aspx?n=angela-clayton&pid=169222356&referrer=2303 Legacy.com
  2. Page 22, American Nuclear Society, Standards Committee Report of Activities, 2008
  3. http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/36/116/36116528.pdf Criticality Mass Calculations for AM-241, Am-242m and Am243
  4. Page 47, Prospect Annual Report, 2009
  5. The AWE Pension, Pensions Update, 2008
  6. The AWE Pension, Pensions Update, 2009
  7. https://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/02784144 AWE Pension Trustees Limited
  8. http://pfc.org.uk/node/1044 Angela Clayton - PFC campaigner | Press For Change
  9. News: QUEENS BIRTHDAY HONOURS - ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CIVIL ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. 3 September 2012. Government News. June 11, 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20160116081258/http://www.gov-news.org/gov/uk/news/queens_birthday_honours_order_british_empire/19558.html. 16 January 2016. dead.
  10. Web site: Greater London LGBT Organising Day. https://archive.today/20121224155901/http://www.unison.org.uk/Out/pages_view.asp?did=6427. dead. 24 December 2012. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members. Unison. 3 September 2012.
  11. Web site: Thomas. Jennifer. Trans Data Position Paper. Office for National Statistics: UK Statistics Authority. 3 September 2012. May 2009.

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