Reform of the Gender Recognition Act has nothing to do with cis-people so please kindly go away

Under the 2004 Gender Recognition Act, the process is bureaucratic, long-winded, impersonal and one can argue dehumanising. As transgender people who wish to be fully legally recognised as who they have to jump through a series of bureaucratic questions, obtain evidence from an approved list of State approved psychiatrists and submit enough evidence to a panel of people you will never meet for them to agree that you are who you say you are.

If the panel decides that part of your submission is not good enough, or you don’t provide them with enough evidence to back up the two-year requirement then they will reject your claim. Unlike any other legal process in the UK, there is no right of appeal. Nor do you get to present your case to the panel in person, like you would in another legal setting.

For example is you sued someone for defamation both parties involved would get the opportunity to make their case to a judge, who would listen to both sides and consider the evidence presented before making his ruling on that. Then if one of the parties feels that the judgment is unfair there is the right of appeal to a higher court for them to then reconsider the case.