UK Government Releases Report on Transgender Equality
After a long wait, the UK government has released its Report on Transgender Equality.
The report covers topics such as treatment of trans individuals by public services such as the NHS and the prisons service, the lack of sufficient statistical data on trans and non-binary identities, and the controversial ‘spousal veto’.
Crucially, the report recommends that changes be made to the Gender Recognition Act (2004) to allow for self-determination of gender, and that provision should be made for 16- and 17-year-olds to apply for gender recognition, alongside a number of recommendations to counter discriminatory procedures, demands and behaviors exhibited by the National Health Service and its staff.
You can read the report here [.pdf].
To read the Non-Binary Inclusion Project‘s response to the report, click here [.pdf].