No Merseyside-based MPs voted to support the Gender Recognition Bill.
The bill would change the process to get a gender recognition certificate (GFC) - a document that legally recognises a person’s gender is not the gender they were assigned at birth, but is their “acquired gender”.
It would have simplified the process for trans people by lowering the age limit from 18 to 16, removing the need for a medical diagnosis and evidence of having lived for two years in their acquired gender.
