The government committed itself to revising the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) to further accommodate transsexualism, despite only 24 MPs being present during a backbench debate at the end of November.
Dismissing public safety concerns, government minister Caroline Dinenage welcomed several recommendations in the debate.
The Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, Maria Miller MP, called for ‘self-declaration’ of gender and a new ‘protected characteristic of gender identity’ in law. This means that people can set their own gender, totally independent of their biology. Many would see this as a departure from common sense.
