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4 - Autonomy and Trans People

Authenticity, Responsibility, Recognition

from Part II - Telling Truths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2022

Susannah Cornwall
Susannah Cornwall
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
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In 2004, the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) was passed into law in England and Wales. It enabled trans people who had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria by a medical professional and had lived in their gender of affirmation for two years to be legally recognized as members of this gender. Once the Gender Recognition Panel (a judicial body comprising judges experienced in tribunals and medical experts, to which appointments are made by the Lord Chancellor) was satisfied by the evidence provided,1 and after payment of a processing fee, trans individuals could be issued with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC). This meant that anyone who applied for a birth certificate based on the Gender Recognition Register would be given a certified copy that did not disclose the individual’s gender at birth, or their name at birth where this differed from that on the GRC.

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Constructive Theology and Gender Variance
Transformative Creatures
 , pp. 105 - 138
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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