Scrap Plans to Restrict Transgender People's Access to Legal Gender Recognition

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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Reform the Gender Recognition Act.

Timeline

15 Jun 2020	Petition opened for signatures
29 Jul 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 29 Jul 2020

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