Submitted on Sunday 23rd March 2014
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Legal Recognition of Non-Binary Gender Identities
Legal documents in the UK currently only recognise two binary genders - 'male' and 'female'. However, there are many people who identify as something other than those, and are therefore of a non-binary gender. Australia and New Zealand (among others) accept these with their extra option on passports which is simply 'X' for unspecified, and it's time for the UK to join them.
Internet giants such as Google and Facebook also allow 'other' options, with Facebook now allowing a custom gender option so that the user can select their identity in particular.
People other than men and women (agender, genderfluid, bigender, genderqueer, etc.) deserve to be recognised by HM Government. Brighton & Hove Council have recently accepted 'Mx' as a gender neutral title, and this was a positive and successful change in the right direction.
This petition calls for a gender option other than 'male' and 'female' to be available to anyone who requires it on all legal documents and records.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
This petition has been closed at the petitioners request.
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