Gender Recognition Act
- Date
- 2004
- Title
- Gender Recognition Act
- Description
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The Gender Recognition Act is passed allowing trans people to apply for legal recognition in their acquired gender.
The 2004 Act allowed for trans people to apply to a Gender Recognition Panel to receive a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC). If granted, a GRC entitles the applicant to “all the rights appropriate to a person of your acquired gender”.
Anybody who wants to obtain a GRC must meet four specific conditions: applicants have to be 18 or over, they have to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, they need to prove that they have lived in the ‘new’ gender for two years prior to the application, and lastly, they need to swear that they will remain in that gender for the rest of their lives.
- References
- Flora Renz, ‘Chapter 18 (De)regulating trans identities’ In Chris Ashford, and Alexander Maine, (ed.s), Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law, (Edward Elgar Publishing 2020) 245 ;
- Inner Temple Library, ‘Transgender law : a short history’ <https://www.innertemplelibrary.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Transgender-Law.pdf> accessed 16 May 2024
Part of Gender Recognition Act