If the GRA goes through is anyone planning on changing their gender?

Does being able to conceive, go through a pregnancy and give birth to young illustrate you are male or female? Or as we used to call them in human terms 'a man or a woman'?

If you picked up a biology book nowadays, how would the chapter on sexual reproduction sensitively manage that?

bogged down by reality

It's a common affliction.

Either way, it demonstrates that the GRC panel has no legal way of setting out beforehand what “living as a man” or “living as a woman” means legally, and they have no means of challenging it if they think someone has deviated from those intentions. And that’s the GRC panel. With judges and everything.

So the possibility of self-declared notions with solicitors being either definable, questioned or revocable is laughable.

Any news on when we can expect an announcement? No surprises that the Tories lied again about it being announced over the summer 🙄

I don’t actually believe in gender.

So, if it is just people not wanting to say sex and using the word gender instead, does that mean the real title is 'The Sex Recognition Act'? Or is the correct title 'The Gender Recognition Act'?

The 'Sex Recognition Act' is slightly problematic as a statement of fact. It is doing the opposite of recognising you sex; it is legally allocating you a different sex. Just my personal thinking. I do acknowledge others aren't bogged down by reality in the same way.

So if the definition of woman doesn't include 'adult human female'! I wouldn't even be living as a woman by being a woman? Well, that gives enormous latitude to your self ID. Or is it different when you want to ID as a man? Maybe they aren't a nothing like a woman.

then do the most womanly thing possible immediately - get pregnant and give birth - without consequences from that legal panel

That’s a bit judgemental. It may be that Freddy does want to live as a man and believes he is a man, but tolerates the extreme dysphoria caused by being pregnant because of his desperately strong need to have a child. So he manages to cope with 9 months of dysphoria which is temporary for the sake of being able to have children.

You could really mean it at the time of utterance and signature. Those few minutes. If you are living as a man, a big part of that will be no one getting the right to dismiss your intention in the same way they would if you were a woman. So, if you aren't being regarded as a man for any reason whatsoever, it would be because of the transphobia of others.

Can I change it to non-binary? I’m sure I’m under that trans umbrella somehow

From what I've heard, the process is likely to include a statutory declaration where you commit to "live as" your declared gender permanently
and apparently possible penalties if you don't

The stat declaration was to a solicitor (I think that was meant to impress on us just how legal they were being) but people lie to solicitors all the time, so it's a non starter. Solicitors are not police and dont much care if you break a declaration, nor would they know if you broke it.

Also, in the Scottish proposal (and I imagine in any coming English proposal) there's some sort of waiting period before you'd get the certificate and therefore also a wait before you could change back

The point of self id is to immediately change gender once you figure out which of the 311 you are, Scotland has recently changed its definition of woman, this definition doesn't include adult human female.
And this change back gender is a bit peculiar, there are 311 genders, surely one of them would fit better than "just" male or female ?

Also ask pips bunce what gender they are on a different day, also please ask about gender on passport/DL, and also while your at it ask pips why they veer from masculinity to femme and not try one of the other genders ta.

Overall, I got the impression it would be hard to do it "non-seriously" or to "flip back and forth". I'll let you break that to number 32 of the FTs Business Woman of the Year 2018.

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/gender-fluid-exec-named-on-list-of-top-100-women-in-business-a3942896.html

It seems several new conservatives MPs have written to Boris Johnson to urge him to reform the GRA:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a9e0d3fe-e8a5-11ea-9b25-18353d361fa2?shareToken=3b620f597846df0df66b5197c5dbd266

From what I've heard, the process is likely to include a statutory declaration where you commit to "live as" your declared gender permanently ... and apparently possible penalties if you don't.

If Freddy McConnell can have a GRC, declare in front of a legal panel the intention to “live as a man”, then do the most womanly thing possible immediately - get pregnant and give birth - without consequences from that legal panel, then there is no possible way anyone “self identified” will be penalised if they don’t meet particular requirements. It’s more legal fiction being created. What are those requirements? How are they defined? How would anyone prove one way or another?

It’s utter madness that laws that are even more vague and unenforceable than the ones we have now are being proposed.

Also, in the Scottish proposal (and I imagine in any coming English proposal) there's some sort of waiting period before you'd get the certificate and therefore also a wait before you could change back.

Overall, I got the impression it would be hard to do it "non-seriously" or to "flip back and forth".

It does use sex in the legislation. People don’t like to say sex it’s a naughty word so they say gender.

I have every intention of being as confusing as possible for any organisation that is anti science / facts and uses the gender bollx on surveys, questionnaires etc. If they can be fact deniers then they're fair game.

Why is it called the Gender Recognition Act then? Why not use sex?

It’s sex. The GRA changes your legal sex.

Yeah why not! For shits and giggles.

Hmm - I might do this. He/him pronouns i think.

Exactly. And since so much of the pressure to believe in gender ideology seems to be coming from people's employers... Wouldn't it be nice for uterus bearers to know they have a bit of job protection next time they take maternity (paternity?) leave?