@star @ryanc It's likely to mainly affect dual citizens who want to update their UK records after changing their documented gender in the other country they are a citizen of. It could also affect someone who has lived in the UK before, left, changed their documented gender and then came back
It's right on the gross intersection between "we don't care that it will affect very few people BC it's about optics, not effectiveness" and "we also don't care that the tiny minority will be REALLY HARMED"