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Changing gender in your passport

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HDDD · 09/12/2021 18:24

Just reading this interesting debate between Kathleen Stock and Robin White in Prospect magazine.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/gender-wars-two-opposing-perspectives-on-the-trans-and-womens-rights-debate
This line just screamed at me "For good practical reasons, the UK passport office will allow individuals to change their gender in their passport long before they can make an application for the GRC required to change their legal sex". This I did not know?! What ARE the good practical reasons? Travelling abroad for surgery?

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Clymene · 09/12/2021 18:37

Robin is on Twitter denying it was a debate as they sent them the same questions and they didn't know what the other had answered. So more like a game of Mr and Mrs

Clymene · 09/12/2021 18:36

@Zerogravity

But gender isn't on your passport?
Conflation of sexual and gender again
Zerogravity · 09/12/2021 18:33

But gender isn't on your passport?

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