The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill became a constitutional dispute in January when the UK government took the unprecedented step of blocking it from receiving royal assent and becoming law.
It aims to simplify the process for trans people to change gender in the eyes of the law. No diagnosis or medical reports would be required, and the period in which adult applicants need to have lived in their acquired gender would be cut to three months.
Teenagers aged 16 and 17 applying for a gender recognition certificate would have to live in their acquired gender for at least six months.Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerSky explains the arguments put forward by the UK government, and why some disagree with the move
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