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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Paul McAuley

Government rejects petition set up to give Brianna Ghey 'dignity she deserves'

The Government has responded to a petition set up in the wake of Brianna Ghey’s death.

After the transgender schoolgirl was killed on Saturday, February 11, in Culcheth’s Linear Park, 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).

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