Self-Declared Gender: The Gender Recognition Act and its reform
The year 2004: Facebook was launched, civil partnerships are introduced for same-sex couples in the UK, Outkast’s “Hey Ya” was top of the charts, the final episode of Friends is broadcast. In other words, 2004 was a long time ago. It’s also the same year that the Gender Recognition Act was introduced, for the first time allowing for the legal change of gender, and a lot has changed in 14 years. Despite an estimated 200,000 – 500,000 trans people living in the UK[1] since the