Question for any lawyers reading

[LemonJello]

This is a question regarding the proposed changes to legislation which would see ‘gender identity’ become a protected characteristic.

Is there any other law, passed at any time and in any country in the world, which enshrines individual subjective belief over shared material reality and understanding?

If there is, what was is and what were the implications/ cases that resulted? (Maybe creationism being taught in schools? I don’t know)

I’m also interested in the precedent that this may set. Not in terms of obvious things like ‘trans age’, although those are worrying, but other possibilities that we haven’t thought about yet. Would this law set a precedent for things like that? What legal arguement would you use against age identity if gender identity is recognised?

Thank you

But the reissued certificate won't have anything on it to signify the change?

So it could be submitted to, for example, a sports club, and would say "female"? Or for a female scholarship, or anything that should be restricted to women? In other words, the chant of "transwomen are women" will be evidenced by these new birth certificates and will therefore actually be true.

I can't see anything going wrong there at all [cynical]

I’m not sure. It may have a note in the margin to indicate it is a reissued cert.

My question about birth certificates is what happens when a couple have a baby and one or both of the couple are trans. Who gets recorded as the baby's mother and who gets recorded as the baby's father?

(Will no-one think of the future's genealogists?)