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We urge the government to introduce an act equivalent to the Irish Gender Recognition Act, and allow trans* people to self-define their gender.","additional_details":"Having your gender recognised by the Gender Recognition Panel requires trans* people to go to pointless expense - whether requiring them to pay administration fees (and having to go through the lengthy and underfunded NHS gender transition system) or paying to attend a private clinic to receive the required evidence as well as paying to be seen by the panel. \r\n\r\nFurthermore: no provisions are made for non-binary gender identities.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.justice.gov.uk/tribunals/gender-recognition-panel","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":35352,"created_at":"2015-07-22T13:05:13.996Z","updated_at":"2018-04-16T09:46:17.290Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2015-07-22T15:10:13.771Z","closed_at":"2016-01-22T23:59:59.999Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2015-07-22T13:44:40.365Z","response_threshold_reached_at":"2015-07-24T11:48:31.844Z","government_response_at":"2015-09-11T13:23:30.467Z","debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_on":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":null,"government_response":{"responded_on":"2015-09-11","summary":"The gender recognition process in the Gender Recognition Act 2004 was developed as a result of the Government’s commitment to allowing trans people to gain legal recognition in their acquired gender.","details":"The Gender Recognition Process\n\nThe general procedural requirements for gaining gender recognition were developed as a result of the Government’s commitment to allowing trans people who have taken decisive steps to live fully and permanently in the acquired gender to gain legal recognition in that gender, by establishing a robust and credible process to determine applications for recognition. 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Given the cost involved in administering the gender recognition process, applications for gender recognition also carry a fee.\n\nAt present, the application fee stands at £140. So as to ensure that nobody is excluded from gaining legal recognition in their acquired gender, remissions and part remissions are available to those who are unable to pay the full fee. 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You can find out more about the inquiry, and how you can give the Committee your views, here:\n\nhttp://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/women-and-equalities-committee/news-parliament-2015/inquiry-into-transgender-equality/\n\nYou can follow the inquiry on Twitter: @commonswomequ will be tweeting about the  #transinquiry from early September.\n\nWhen the committee hears evidence in September, you can watch it live at www.parliamentlive.tv. 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So it's a major event for transgender equality here in Parliament.  \n\nThe Committee @commonswomequ is keen to take the discussion beyond the committee room and out into the community, so we're encouraging everyone who's watching to livetweet: #transinquiry. \n\nThe session will cover a range of issues which have been raised by inquiry witnesses, including specialist organisations, medical and legal experts, and individuals, including Ashley Reed, who started the petition which you signed calling for transgender people to have the legal right to self-define their gender... and by the hundreds of individual trans people who have written to the committee about their own experiences. \n\nYou can watch live here: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/505f7377-2dd2-4428-9615-711432858a7c\n\nPlease share this with your friends, loved ones, colleagues, and anyone else who would be interested in hearing what Ministers have to say about the future of transgender equality.  \n\nIssues likely to be covered include: Gender identity services - possible improvements to current services including waiting times; appropriate treatment for gender variant children; the ‘spousal veto’ under which married trans people need their spouse’s agreement before reassignment;  tackling hate crime effectively; possible inclusion of non-gendered status (*X) in passports; current media regulation arrangements and protection from transphobic coverage; operation of the rules which allow exclusion from single sex sporting activities. Then in the second panel, workplace equality and discrimination in employment; Government action plan: cross departmental plans; looked-after young trans people; Equality Act 2010: possible reforms, including terminology, and whether the protected characteristic should be changed to just gender identity; Gender Recognition Act, and whether individuals be allowed to self-define. Privacy, data protection issues and ‘outing’. \n\nYou can find out more about the inquiry, and watch and read  the evidence so far, here:\n\nhttp://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/women-and-equalities-committee/inquiries/parliament-2015/transgender-equality/","occurred_on":"2015-10-26","created_at":"2015-10-26T17:57:52.457Z","updated_at":"2015-10-26T17:57:52.457Z"},{"subject":"Women and Equalities Committee publish report on transgender equality","body":"On Thursday 14 January, the Woman and Equalities Committee published a report on transgender equality.  \n\nThe Committee referred to the petition you signed, as well as the evidence that Ashley Reed (who started the petition) gave to the inquiry. Its report said: \n\n‘In July 2015, Ashley Reed initiated a petition on the UK Government and Parliament petitions website advocating that trans people should be able to define their own gender for the purposes of obtaining a GRC, along the lines of the Irish Gender Recognition Act 2015'.  \n\n'We invited Ashley to give evidence to us. She told us: it is humiliating to have your gender assessed by someone else. You are the only person who can come to that realisation, not a panel. It is an outdated system. The current system just does not provide for what is the majority of trans people nowadays. In terms of expense, there is a £140 fee, which can be subsidised or paid for, but it is a system that puts a lot of people off applying. It certainly put me off applying, because I do not feel it necessary to have my gender looked at by a group of people.’ \n\nIn relation to allowing trans people to self-define their gender, the Committee recommended that: \n\n‘Within the current Parliament, the Government must bring forward proposals to update the Gender Recognition Act, in line with the principles of gender self-declaration that have been developed in other jurisdictions. In place of the present medicalised, quasi-judicial application process, an administrative process must be developed, centred on the wishes of the individual applicant, rather than on intensive analysis by doctors and lawyers’. \n\nYou can read the Women and Equalities Committee's full report into transgender equality here: http://goo.gl/i8ZdCZ \n\nYou can follow the Women and Equalities Committee on Twitter: @Commonswomequ #transinquiry \n\nYou can follow the Petitions Committee on Twitter: @HoCpetitions","occurred_on":"2016-01-14","created_at":"2016-01-14T17:17:45.643Z","updated_at":"2016-01-14T17:17:45.643Z"},{"subject":"Update on progress of the Women & Equalities Committee report on transgender equality","body":"We wrote to you to let you know about the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee report which quoted this petition and made the following related recommendation:\n\n\"Within the current Parliament, the Government must bring forward proposals to update the Gender Recognition Act, in line with the principles of gender self-declaration that have been developed in other jurisdictions. In place of the present medicalised, quasi-judicial application process, an administrative process must be developed, centred on the wishes of the individual applicant, rather than on intensive analysis by doctors and lawyers.\" \n\nYou can read the Committee's full report on its website: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmselect/cmwomeq/390/390.pdf\n\nWe thought you may be interested to know what the next steps are and what is currently happening.\n\nNormally, the Government responds to House of Commons Committee reports and its specific recommendations within two months. The response will say whether they agree or disagree with the recommendations and, if it agrees, how it plans to implement the recommendations. \n\nThe Women and Equalities Committee is still awaiting this Government response and recently asked the Government when it will arrive. The reply from Nicky Morgan MP, the Government Minister for Women and Equalities reads:\n\n\"I am writing to let you know that there will be a delay in publishing the Government’s response to your committee’s report on transgender equality.\n\nAs I mentioned at the Women and Equalities OPQs on 14 March, the Government welcomed your report and is studying the recommendations in detail. However, this process is taking time. Your report called for very significant changes to the legislative framework around gender recognition, as well as significant reforms of NHS and other public service processes, covering around a dozen different public bodies in total. We are looking through these carefully, but we are not yet in a position to issue a substantive response on all of them.\n\nI understand that you were hoping to see the Government’s response immediately after the Easter recess. Unfortunately, we need more time to ensure the best possible response to your report overall. But I will keep you informed of progress and let you know the publication date in good time.\"\n\nYou can also view the reply on the Committee's website: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/women-and-equalities/Correspondence/Response-to-trans-enquiry.pdf\n\nWe will keep you informed and let you know when the response has been received and what it says relating to the above recommendation. \n\nThe Women and Equalities Committee is a cross-party group of MPs responsible for examining the expenditure, administration and policy of the Government Equalities Office (GEO). You can find out more about the role of the Committee on its website: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/women-and-equalities-committee/role/\n\nYou can follow the Women and Equalities Committee on Twitter: @Commonswomequ #transinquiry \n\nThis email has been sent by the House of Commons Petitions Committee. You can find out more about the work of the Petitions Committee on its website here: www.parliament.uk/petitions-committee\n\nYou can follow the Petitions Committee on Twitter: @HoCpetitions\n\nThere are other ways you can get involved in the work of the UK Parliament.\n\nFind out how to contact your MP or a Lord, contribute to Parliamentary Committees, and search for free Parliament events taking place in your local area here: http://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/ \n\nFind out how you can visit Parliament: http://www.parliament.uk/visiting/","occurred_on":"2016-05-06","created_at":"2016-05-06T17:40:04.017Z","updated_at":"2016-05-06T17:40:04.017Z"},{"subject":"Government responds to Women and Equalities report on transgender equality","body":"We wrote to you to let you know about the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee report which quoted this petition and made the following related recommendation:\n \n\"Within the current Parliament, the Government must bring forward proposals to update the Gender Recognition Act, in line with the principles of gender self-declaration that have been developed in other jurisdictions. In place of the present medicalised, quasi-judicial application process, an administrative process must be developed, centred on the wishes of the individual applicant, rather than on intensive analysis by doctors and lawyers.\" \n \nYou can read the Committee's full report on its website: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmselect/cmwomeq/390/390.pdf\n \nThe Government has now responded to the report. In response to the above recommendation, it says: \n \n\"We are grateful for the Committee’s detailed considerations and views on the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in relation to the needs of non-binary people, the principles of gender self-declaration, converting the application process to an administrative process, and to extending legal gender recognition to transgender people aged 16-17, and possibly to children under 16.\n \nIn line with Government’s commitment to furthering transgender equality, we will keep these issues under consideration. The Government will review the Gender\nRecognition Act to determine whether changes can be made to improve it in order to streamline and de-medicalise the gender recognition process.\n \nHowever, we share the Committee’s concerns in respect of age. We would like to see more evidence on the case for change and the implications of altering the minimum age, moving to a self-declaration process and extending legal recognition to non-binary gender identities. We will therefore monitor the implementation of alternative gender recognition processes in other jurisdictions and we will analyse the evidence placed before the Committee to inform our work.\"\n \nYou can read the Government's response in full on its website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transgender-equality-report-government-response\n \nThe Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, Maria Millar MP said about the Government's response: \n \n\"Progress on a new trans equality action plan and a review of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 will be very welcome, and we are glad to see that the Government is considering many of our other recommendations. However, we made these back in January, and would have hoped for more substantial progress during the past 6 months. Although the response makes some good future commitments, it’s a bit thin on action taken so far. Overall, the Committee shares the disappointment expressed by many in the trans community at the contents of the response.\n \nIt is particularly disappointing to find that there is no intention to change the confusing and inadequate language in the Equality Act 2010.\n \nWe will consider the Government’s proposals for further action carefully, and we look forward to more detailed discussions with Ministers and officials soon.\"\n \nWhat will happen now:\n \nAfter the Government responds to a Committee report, it’s up to the Committee to decide what action it wants to take. For example, Committees can take action to try to:\n \n· Promote its report in Parliament and across the UK to increase pressure on the Government to take action e.g. by seeking a debate in the House of Commons, working with stakeholder groups, or media campaigns;\n· Follow up to make sure the Government does what it promised to do e.g. by inviting Ministers to give further evidence or asking Parliamentary Questions\n· Continue to review the Government’s work on the issue e.g. by issuing follow-up reports.\n \nWe will let you know what the Women and Equalities Committee decide to do next. \n \nWhat is the Women and Equalities Committee?\n \nThe Women and Equalities Committee looks at how the Government Equalities Office:\n \n· is run\n· spends money\n· decides on its policies\n \nIt's a cross-party committee and is independent of the Government. \n \nYou can follow the Women and Equalities Committee on Twitter: @Commonswomequ #transinquiry \n \nYou can find out more about the Women and Equalities Committee on its website: www.parliament.uk/womenandequalities","occurred_on":"2016-08-25","created_at":"2016-08-25T15:25:48.749Z","updated_at":"2016-08-25T15:25:48.749Z"}]}}}