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What Would Changes to the Gender Recognition Act Mean? Two legal views
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Sharpe, A., Freedman, R. and Auchmuty, R. (2018) What Would Changes to the Gender Recognition Act Mean? Two legal views. [Online]. (https://theconversation.com/what-would-changes-to-...). London, UK: The Conversation Trust (UK).
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Abstract
Currently, the process of recognition under the Gender Recognition Act is unnecessarily invasive, cumbersome and costly. According to a BBC fact checking exercise, it can take more than five years for trans men and women in England and Wales to legally change their gender under the current system, a fact explained primarily by a chronic lack of funding devoted to NHS transgender health care provision.
It also undermines the dignity of trans people because it approaches our lives in terms of mental illness, an indignity shared by gay and lesbian people until 1973 when homosexuality was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It also fails to cater for non-binary people.
Item Type: | Digital Scholarly Resource | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Conversation | ||||
Publisher: | The Conversation Trust (UK) | ||||
Place of Publication: | London, UK | ||||
Official Date: | 2018 | ||||
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Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Media of Output (format): | Blog | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Description: | The British government is currently consulting on how best to reform the Gender Recognition Act 2004, the law which allows trans people to change their legal gender. One of the ideas the government is consulting on is whether people should be able to self-identify as a different gender or non-binary without the need for a certificate from a medical professional. But it has led to controversy. The Conversation sought two differing legal perspectives on what changing the law would mean. |
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