I saw that too yeah and a couple of others on the same topic, one from 2011, which is the Daily Mail article on passports, and the Iona Institute article from September 2018 to do with assisted human reproduction.
Very interesting observation from Mr Wells in the extract below about Stonewall's grip on the administration, albeit it is about gay parents, rather than transgender issues.
The Home Office ‘Diversity Strategy’ states: ‘IPS [the Identity and Passport Service] is working with Stonewall in response to an issue about having to name a “mother” and “father” on the passport application form.’
Mr Wells added: ‘Like the Labour administration before it, the Coalition seems to be in Stonewall’s grip.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044491/PC-passport-Goodbye-mother-father-Now-Parent-1-2-appear-form.html
Extract from the Iona article:
The forthcoming legislation on assisted human reproduction is set to build on the extremely radical approach to family relationships put in place by the Children and Family Relationships Act from 2015, a law that greatly demotes the importance of the biological ties between parents and children. In an article published in the current issue of the Law Society Gazette, a number of legal experts criticised the proposed legislation.
The author of the piece, Mary Hallissey, sums up the approach nicely when she says that “births certs will now sidestep the truth of a child’s origins in favour of naming commissioning parents, who have used donor material [eggs and/or sperm] to conceive.”
The approach of the Government is so radical that it looks set to allows the words ‘mother’ and father’ to be replaced on births certificates by ‘parent one’ and ‘parent two’, which is a total denial of biological reality.
ionainstitute.ie/mother-and-father-to-be-replaced-by-parent-1-and-parent-2/