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Allow people to change their legal gender by self-identifying.

Submitted on Monday 22nd June 2020

Rejected on Wednesday 29th July 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Allow people to change their legal gender by self-identifying.

Petition Details

The government should respect the outcome of the public consultation regarding the proposed updates to the Gender Recognition Act. 70% of respondents were clear in their support for allowing people to self-identify as a man or a woman. Therefore, there is no reason for these plans to be scrapped.

Additional Information

The public has expressed overwhelming support for these measures and so, the democratic course of action would be to follow through with what the government promised to deliver.

The current process to legally change one’s gender is time-consuming and complex. This must be rectified as many people suffer from severe mental illness due to delays in their transiting process. These measures could also help to reduce the marginalisation trans people currently experience which often leads to abuse.


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This petition was rejected

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.

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