Parts of the application process for a gender recognition certificate (GRC), which enables transgender people to have their new gender recognized in law, are deemed “unnecessary” and “degrading” by Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary.
A panel of doctors and lawyers must approve an applicant’s application and provide documentation that they have been living in their acquired gender for at least two years, according to current regulations.
Speaking to News Breakfast, Mr. Streeting stated that Labour wished to maintain the need for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, a problem.
when a person feels uncomfortable because their gender identification and biological sex don’t match.
He did, however, state that the party will alter the procedure to involve just one doctor as opposed to a panel.
Currently, trans persons must go through a procedure that, in his words, they find to be extremely agonizing and demeaning due to the demands made of them to prove that they are living their lives in accordance with their assumed gender in order to receive a gender recognition certificate “.
“And what we want to do is streamline the procedure by keeping the requirement for a gender dysphoria diagnostic in order to receive legal recognition, meaning that a physician would still be necessary, but attempting to remove it.
