Response to 2016 petition self declaration

[mummybear701]

Apologies if this has been discussed before. Two years ago the government responded to a petition calling for self declaration, quite clearly against such a move.

petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/104639

It doesn't particularly go into womens spaces or womens safety, but the jist can be summed up as A person’s gender has important legal and social consequences. The state has a legitimate interest in ensuring that people who take on a new legal status can establish that they meet certain criteria.

Has their position suddenly changed?

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Cause its those very issues that will have to thought through like pensions, marriage etc. where its the birth certificate that matters.

My understanding is the following:

"The new self-ID system was proposed by the Commons Women and Equalities committee, chaired by the former Conservative cabinet minister Maria Miller. It's a bit dismaying that this is the only bit of the committee's recommendations which has achieved any traction, because the report had some fairly stern words about the misery caused to trans people through their difficulty in accessing specialist NHS services. But, as I wrote at the time, fixing the lack of NHS funding is a lot more expensive than changing the GRC system."

So basically the real problems would be expensive to fix.

Self-declaration they hoped would be a cheap and easy cop-ou.

The quote is from this article.