Another voice of support from me.
I saw this on the Haddock thread and thought it was potentially useful:
*Victoriapestis
what is the ‘reasonable assumption’ rule? Is it in one of the EA 2010 Schedules
It was an amendment to the GRA 2004 granting this exemption specifically to the Church of England and the Church of Wales, inserted in 2005, which still stands (ie has not been affected by either the Civil Partnership Act nor the Same Sex Marriage Act).
Schedule 4 Paragraph 3 states here:
3 After section 5A insert—
“5B Marriages involving person of acquired gender
(1)A clergyman is not obliged to solemnise the marriage of a person if the clergyman reasonably believes that the person’s gender has become the acquired gender under the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
(2)A clerk in Holy Orders of the Church in Wales is not obliged to permit the marriage of a person to be solemnised in the church or chapel of which the clerk is the minister if the clerk reasonably believes that the person’s gender has become the acquired gender under that Act.”
(my emphasis)*