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Government abandons plans to let people change gender without medical checks
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news.sky.comLiz Truss said in a written statement to parliament on Tuesday.By sticking with the current legislation, the government has backtracked on former prime minister Theresa May's proposal to allow transgender people to change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis.Speaking in 2017, Mrs May said plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act would involve "streamlining and demedicalising the process for changing gender because being trans is not an illness and it should not be treated as such".In Tuesday's move away from that approach, it means people wishing to apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate - and thereby have the law recognise them as having all the rights and responsibilities appropriate to a person of their acquired.
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