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# Gender Recognition Certificate fee reduced
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/gender-recognition-certificate-fee-reduced/
- Published: 2021-05-04T09:27:29.000Z
- Updated: 2021-05-04T09:27:29.000Z
- Description: The Government has today announced it is reducing the fee of applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate.
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: In The South, News, Politics, Brighton, LGBTQ, Trans Rights

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The Government has today announced it is reducing the fee of applying for a **Gender Recognition Certificate** (GRC). Those applying for a GRC will now be required to pay **£5** instead of the **£140** fee. The application process will also be moving online, with more details to be set out in due course.

**Liz Truss**, Minister for Women and Equalities, said: *“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.*

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/listruss600400.png)

LIZ TRUSS

*“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, yet tentative estimates suggest there are an estimated 2-500,000 transgender people living in the UK.