Controversial Scottish gender reforms to become law
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Scotland is the first part of the UK to approve a self-identification system for people who want to change gender.

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
  • artificialset [she/her, fae/faer]
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    2 years ago

    It still seems ridiculous to have to live as your "acquired" gender at all before getting that certificate. I doubt the person transitioning needs the extra three months to really be sure. Applying for that certificate in the first place makes me think someone is pretty certain.

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      2 years ago

      Yes, but have you considered that trans people are inferior to cis people, and therefore we must place as high as a barrier as possible in the way so that no actual human might accidentally become a removed err I mean trans "person."