A Labour MP has called for the law to be changed so transgender people can have their gender changed posthumously in official records.
In a written question to Parliament last month, Charlotte Nichols, the MP representative for Warrington North, asked if the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004 could be changed “to allow transgender people who are deceased to be legally remembered by the gender they lived by”.
Replying, Stuart Andrew, the equalities minister, said that the Government had no plans to further amend the Act.
He said: “Where a person was using their new gender with an organisation prior to their death, and that was on their personal records, then we anticipate that the organisation would engage with their family members using the new gender.”
Mr Andrew added that “[t]hese organisations could include the NHS”.
His response has fuelled concerns of “self-ID becoming normalised in the NHS.”
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