Equal marriage – trans perspectives
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By Tina Beardsley
The announcement of a Government Consultation on Equal Marriage is to be warmly welcomed as a prelude to ending a very serious anomaly. Under present UK legislation, those trans people who were already married prior to their transition (and the implementation of the Gender Recognition Act 2004), and wish to remain so, are not allowed to obtain a full Gender Recognition Certificate, nor can they be issued with a new/amended birth certificate. In order to complete their journey, and be legally recognised as male or female, the individual concerned must obtain an Interim Gender Recognition Certificate, which has a six-month life, during which time it can be used to annul their marriage, followed by the issue of a full Gender Recognition Certificate. The couple may then, should they wish, contract a Civil Partnership, and some have done this, though many, unwilling to renege on their solemn vows, remain married but, legally at least, in gender limbo.
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