Campaigners who set up a petition in the wake of Brianna Ghey’s death have been left "outraged" after it was rejected.
After the transgender schoolgirl was found dead in Culcheth’s Linear Park, on Saturday, February 11, campaigners came together to call on the government to give the teenager the “dignity she deserves". Activists, members of the trans community and its allies asked the government to give the Year 11 Birchwood Community High School pupil a posthumous Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).
This was because, under the current UK law, only those who are 18 and over are able to obtain a GRC - which allows a trans person’s gender to be recorded on birth, death and marriage certificates - and Brianna was killed when she was only 16 years old.
