Gender recognition certificates still important, says equalities watchdog chairwoman

Evening Standard

Certificates which legally recognise a person’s acquired gender are “still very important”, despite the Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, the new chairwoman of Britain’s equalities watchdog has said.The latest official data showed applications for gender recognition certificates (GRCs) had reached a record high, with almost 2,000 in the year to September.Eight months on from the Supreme Court’s ruling in April on the definition of sex, the rights watchdog boss said that such documentation still guards people’s right to marry or be buried in their legally acquired sex.

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00:00I think in terms of people's right to marry in their legal sex, to be buried in their legal sex and so on, and it was the right to marry which was the original case that went to the European Court of Human Rights.

00:29The gender recognition certificates are still very important to people.

00:47My starting point in all of this is that you have to ensure that everyone as far as possible has access to the services they need.

00:55So it's also therefore important to make sure that there are services provided for people who can't or don't want to use the services for their biological sex.

01:05So it is about recognising that everybody has rights in this situation, but where you are providing single sex services the Supreme Court has said those have to be on the basis of biological sex.

01:19So that's why we have to make sure that there is no need to be on the basis of biological sex.

01:21So that's why we have to be on the basis of biological sex.

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