Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) We also introduced a modernised and affordable gender-recognition process, while recognising the need - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) Lady claims that Labour has a policy on gender recognition. - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) I will use the example of Kazakhstan, where to obtain gender recognition applicants must undergo gender - Speech Link
4: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) The issues of gender recognition and self-ID that my right hon. - Speech Link
Jan. 08 2024
Source Page: Correspondence pertaining to the Gender Recognition Unit: FOI releaseFound: Correspondence pertaining to the Gender Recognition Unit: FOI release
Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) process to obtain a gender recognition certificate. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barker (LD - Life peer) is no data about whether any of the individuals who gained legal gender recognition in the UK using - Speech Link
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North)
Question
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will reform the Gender Recognition Act 2004 to allow transgender people who are deceased to be legally remembered by the gender they lived by.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
We recognise the sensitivity of these situations, particularly when family and friends are dealing with the loss of a loved one. The Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004 provides for people to change their legal gender. Those who have undergone this process and acquired a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) before the time of their death will, of course, be recognised in their new gender.
Without undergoing the process of legal gender recognition and acquiring a GRC under the provisions laid out in the GRA 2004, a person has not legally changed gender. Therefore they would not be recognised in their new gender upon the unfortunate event of their death. That said, where a person was using their new gender with an organisation prior to their death, and that was on their personal records, then we anticipate that the organisation would engage with their family members using the new gender. These organisations could include the NHS, their place of work or community groups.
We recognise that everyone who decides to undergo a change in how their legal sex is recorded deserves our respect, support and compassion throughout the process. The process does not currently allow for third party applications, such as posthumous applications on behalf of a deceased friend or relative, as any application will be a deeply personal undertaking and choice.
Following the GRA consultation and the subsequent changes we made to the application process, we have no plans to further amend the Act.
Mentions:
1: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) process to obtain a gender recognition certificate. - Speech Link
2: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) The explanatory notes for the Gender Recognition (Approved Countries and Territories) Order 2011 state - Speech Link
Jan. 08 2024
Source Page: Correspondence pertaining to the Gender Recognition Unit: FOI releaseFound: Correspondence pertaining to the Gender Recognition Unit: FOI release
Laid - 6 Dec 2023 In Force 9 Apr 2024
Section 1(1)(b) of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (c. 7) (“the Act”) permits applications for a gender recognition certificate on the basis of having changed gender under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom. Applicants under section 1(1)(b) of the Act are required by section 3(5) …
Found: Gender Recognition (Approved Countries and Territories and Saving Provision) Order 2023
Jan. 24 2024
Source Page: Gender Recognition Reform Bill: official-level meetings between SG, UKG and Northern Ireland officials: FOI reviewFound: Gender Recognition Reform Bill: official-level meetings between SG, UKG and Northern Ireland officials
Published - Wednesday 6th December 2023
Department: Department for Business and TradeSection 1(1)(b) of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (c. 7) (“the Act”) permits applications for a gender recognition certificate on the basis of having changed gender under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom. Applicants under section 1(1)(b) of the Act are required by section 3(5) …
Found: The Gender Recognition (Approved Countries and Territories and Saving Provision) Order 2023
Asked by: Baroness Barker (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
To ask His Majesty's Government how many people have acquired Gender Recognition Certificates using section 1(1)(b) of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in each year since statistics were first reported in 2009.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
All statistics on the number of people acquiring Gender Recognition Certificates through the overseas route are published by HM Courts and Tribunals Service in their quarterly tribunal statistics release found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
The information in the table below presents the successful outcomes of GRC applications under section 1(1)(b) of the Gender Recognition Act 2004. Please note the third column in answer to your question.
Outcomes of overseas route applications for a gender recognition certificate [1] | ||||||||
Financial Year | Total | Full GRC Granted | Interim GRC granted 2 | Refused | Application Withdrawn | No Fee Paid | Error | Reopened |
2009/10 | 9 | 6 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | .. |
2010/11 | 22 | 9 | - | 5 | 7 | - | 1 | .. |
2011/12 | 13 | 8 | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | .. |
2012/13 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | .. |
2013/14 | 17 | 12 | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | .. |
2014/15 | 14 | 11 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | .. |
2015/16 | 12 | 7 | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | .. |
2016/17 | 14 | 12 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | .. |
2017/18 | 33 | 23 | - | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. |
2018/19 | 27 | 15 | - | 7 | 3 | 2 | - | .. |
2019/20 | 27 | 23 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | .. |
2020/21 | 33 | 27 | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | .. |
2021/22 | 33 | 30 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - |
2022/23 | 55 | 46 | 1 | 4 | - | 1 | 3 | - |
Source:Tribunal Statistics Quarterly (July to September 2023) Table GRP_3 Applications disposed of by the Gender Recognition Panel, by type of track and outcome, Q1 2009/10 to Q2 2023/24
To Note:
Full GRCs above relate only to those which are issued by the Panel.
[1] Details of which track to apply to can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/apply-gender-recognition-certificate
[2] Interim certificates are issued to successful applicants who meet the criteria for gender recognition but are a) not eligible to remain married following gender recognition because they were married under the law of Northern Ireland, b) eligible but either they and/or spouse have decided not to remain married after issue of full GRC, c) in a protected civil partnership where only one partner has applied for gender recognition (or where both have applied but only one was successful) or d) in a civil partnership but one which is not a protected civil partnership. In these circumstances once the successful applicant has ended their marriage or civil partnership, they can be issued a full GRC.
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