The Future of Legal Gender

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Spotted this on King's website. It's a study funded by an Economic and Social Research Council grant. It looks at 'should gender remain a legal status assigned at birth; and what would be the implications of reforming this'.
futureoflegalgender.kcl.ac.uk/survey/take-part/
Its focus seems to be on reform:
One project aim is to develop a draft bill to provide a focal point for discussion of legal reform. This will present the best case for reform and demonstrate what legal change could look like and mean.
The Advisory Group includes 'representatives from the EHRC, Stonewall and EDF.'
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FP008968%2F1
I'm posting because I think it's important to know who is informing policy in this area, and why and how.

Previous thread on their survey.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3419517-The-future-of-legal-gender-survey

They want to get rid of sex and replace it with gender. So anybody can be anything they say they are and there are no sex based rights because noone is defined by their sex anymore.

It's what Tasmania is planning - Tasmania to be first Aussie state to remove gender on birth certificate

www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/tasmania-to-be-first-aussie-state-to-remove-gender-on-birth-certificate/news-story/ec605df2b3d1384a7cff33e9c0db7f87

Yes this is crazy.

And this is supported by UCU (University and College Union) which has emailed members encouraging them to fill this out.

I am not happy about this - what on earth does this have to do with higher education? I really despair sometimes.

They don't "want" anything. It's a research project, for crying out loud.

The aim of the project is to critically explore different ways of reforming legal gender. Its core question is whether we still need a legal gender status at all. What would be the social, cultural and political implications of abolishing legal gender status? What fears, concerns, and challenges would this proposal invoke? The project will draw on experiences in other countries, the legal approach taken towards other social characteristics, such as religion, ethnicity and sexuality, and the views of activists, policy-makers, NGOs, lawyers and the wider public.