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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Io Dodds

Home Office asks police to record trans people using their birth sex in crime statistics

The government has asked police forces in England and Wales to identify transgender victims of crime by their birth sex in official statistics.

In new guidance issued last week, the Home Office said police should record the sex of victims and suspects according to their birth certificate or their gender recognition certificate (GRC), a legal marker of having changed gender.

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