The government committed in April to making it easier for transsexual people to legally change sex, as part of a review of the Gender Recognition Act.
A spokesman said ministers want to ‘streamline and de-medicalise’ the process for ‘changing a person’s legal gender’. He was responding to several demands by homosexual lobby group Stonewall to ensure that trans people are ‘accepted without exception’.
Currently, a transsexual person can apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate to change the sex on their birth certificate. They need to live in their assumed gender for two years and be diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
