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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alexander Butler

Labour plans to ‘simplify’ process to change gender

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Labour is set to make it easier to change gender by allowing a single family doctor to sign off on the decision under plans to “simplify” the process.

The policy would include scrapping a panel of doctors and lawyers that approve gender recognition certificates to stop the “futile and dehumanising parts” of changing gender.

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