A PIECE OF GOOD NEWS

Changing legal gender will be made easier

The Government plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act 2004 to make the process of changing legal gender easier.

At the moment, people must have gender dysphoria diagnosed, apply for a gender recognition certificate from a judicial body, and provide evidence that they have been in transition for at least two years.

Stonewall, which represents, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) people, said the Act had been groundbreaking but needs reform so that the process is not “medicalised, intrusive or demeaning”.