Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
People take part in a Trans Pride protest march in Brighton. Picture date: Saturday July 15, 2023. people must provide two years’ worth of documentation showing they have changed genders before they can be given a gender recognition certificate .Under the Labour proposals, anyone seeking to change gender will instead have to go through a two-year cooling-off period after applying for a GRC.
A Labour spokesman said: “Labour will modernise, simplify and reform the intrusive and outdated gender recognition law to a new process.
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