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The UK has removed every state, territory and country that allows transgender people to correct their legal gender on a "self-id" basis from the list that they offer streamlined gender recognition to.

25 US states (+DC), 4 Australian territories, and 25 entire countries have been cut.

Nobody has even been accused of abusing the process. The changes were spearheaded by Kemi Badenoch for the sole purpose of hurting transgender people.

I appear to have been specifically targeted. In April of 2022, I was the first person to apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) as nonbinary in the UK. Though my application for was granted, my GRC was never issued. I filed a lawsuit on 15 November 2022.

Kemi Badenoch was made a defendant in her capacity as the Minister for Women and Equalities. She put out a statement on 6 January 2023 that she was going to update the list.

On 4 December 2023, details were leaked to The Daily Mail. They ran an article giving my state of birth, California, as a prominent example of places on the chopping block.

Legislation was introduced two days later, which even included a comment that in no circumstance would anyone be able to apply as nonbinary based on foreign recognition.

Of course, this is all circumstantial. 😠

Folks living in the UK who qualify under the old list have about two weeks to apply for a GRC before the change takes effect.

The UK's standard process is so burdensome that less than 5% of transgender individuals in the UK have been able to obtain a GRC.

These overly strict rules do not make anyone safer.

I have written up some more details here:

https://rya.nc/activism/uk-slashes-foreign-gender-recognition.html

(I keep forgetting hashtags)

#trans #transgender #nonbinary #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #uk