Kemi Badenoch Removes Countries From Gender Recognition Certificate List Which Don’t Have ‘Similarly Rigorous’ Systems

A rule change means that people will have to provide medical reports if coming to the UK to get a gender recognition certificate (GRC) from certain countries, such as parts of Australia and the United States and more, as they don’t have “similarly rigorous” systems. Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch told Parliament on Wednesday new rules mean that people coming from overseas must satisfy the UK’s strict criteria for legal gender recognition. This means that now if someone has had their gender previously recognised in one of the countries or territories taken off the approved list, they need to provide medical reports when applying for gender recognition in the UK....