British Government Rejects Calls To Make It Easier To Change Gender Registration

Demonstrators hold placards and wave a transgender pride flag during the Trans Activism UK "British Bigotry Corporation: Platforming Hate Is Not Impartial" protest at BBC Broadcasting House in London, on Jan. 8, 2022. Hollie Adams /Getty Images

The British government has rejected a number of recommendations to reform the Gender Recognition Act including a system of self-declaration.

In a December 2021 report from the Women and Equalities Committee, cross-party MPs called for reform to the 2004 Gender Recognition Act, with the Committee’s Chair, Caroline Nokes MP, stating that the Act was “crying out for modernisation.”