Kemi Badenoch Removes Countries From Gender Recognition Certificate List Which Don’t Have ‘Similarly Rigorous’ Systems

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Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch at the Shaping the Future: UK-Korea Business Forum, at Mansion House, central London, on day two of the state visit by President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol to the UK, in London on Nov. 22, 2023. Aaron Chown - WPA Pool/Getty Images

A rule change means that people will have to provide medical reports if coming to the UK to get a gender recognition certificate (GRC) from certain countries, such as parts of Australia and the United States and more, as they don’t have “similarly rigorous” systems.

Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch told Parliament on Wednesday new rules mean that people coming from overseas must satisfy the UK’s strict criteria for legal gender recognition.