Submitted on Monday 15th June 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 29th July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Scrap Plans to Restrict Transgender People's Access to Legal Gender Recognition
In 2018, the government held a consultation on reforms to the Gender Recognition Act. 70% of 100,000 respondants spoke in favour of improving trans lives and reforms were planned to the currently lengthy and expensive process of legal gender recognition. As of 2020, these plans have been scrapped.
I am calling on the UK Government to reverse this decision, and allow transgender people to self-define their gender and be legally recognised. The current process is restrictive - including a doctor's diagnosis, when the wait to see a gender specialist is already up to three years. Using the point of single-sex spaces to justify restricting access to legal affirmation is a baseless attack on our right to live authentically - since the UK already has legislation in place regarding this issue.
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