NEWS // GENDER RECOGNITION CERTIFICATE
GENDER RECOGNITION
CERTIFICATE FEE REDUCED
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LAST MONTH THE
In response to the consultation on the
yet tentative estimates suggest there are
UK GOVERNMENT
Gender Recognition Act, Minister for Women
an estimated 2-500,000 transgender people
DELIVERED ON ITS
and Equalities, Liz Truss, committed to
living in the UK. The Government hopes that
PLEDGE TO REDUCE THE
modernising the process of applying for a
modernising the process of applying will
FEE OF APPLYING FOR A
GRC, reducing the £140 fee and moving the
allow more transgender people to legally
GENDER RECOGNITION
process online, making it fairer and simpler.
change their sex with a GRC should they wish
CERTIFICATE (GRC).
to do so. Applicants will be only required to pay £5, ensuring the process is more affordable and
The fee reduction is announced today as
remedying one of the key issues that was
secondary legislation, laid by the Ministry of
identified by transgender people in the GRA
Justice in April, comes into immediate effect.
consultation and the National LGBT Survey.
The Government’s Equality Hub are currently working at speed to move the application
Minister for Women and Equalities, Liz Truss,
process online, with more details to be set
said:
out in due course.
“As we build back better, we want transgender people to be free to live and to prosper in modern Britain. “In the National LGBT Survey, 34% of transgender people told us that the cost of applying for a certificate was holding them back from doing so. “Today we have removed that barrier, and I am proud that we have made the process of getting a certificate fairer, simpler and much more affordable.” As of December 2020, there have now been a total of 5,871 full GRCs granted since 2005,
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