The new rules will lower the minimum age that people can apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) from 18 to 16.
They will also remove the requirement for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
And anyone applying for a GRC will now only need to have lived in their acquired gender for three months - or six months if they are aged 16 and 17 - rather than two years.
For context, a Gender Recognition Certificate allows you to do the following:
- Update your birth or adoption certificate, if it was registered in the UK
- Get married or form a civil partnership in your affirmed gender
- Update your marriage or civil partnership certificate, if it was registered in the UK
- Have your affirmed gender on your death certificate when you die
This is all well and good. But I simply don't understand why it is so important for the government to gender stuff that doesn't need it to begin with. For instance why do you need to get married as a gender instead of just as a person? From a legal point of view gender should be irrelevant for the institution of marriage
Perhaps if other countries' governments were as advanced and progressive as Cuba's, they would update everything to be instantly compatible with every type of family structure.
Because the heteronormative household is optimal for producing workers and therefore the bourgeois state has an interest in maximizing it.
If/when somebody needs to be tracked down using those types of documents... maybe.