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# Stonewall to continue trans birth certificate campaign
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/stonewall-to-continue-trans-birth-certificate-campaign/
- Published: 2020-09-23T09:10:08.000Z
- Updated: 2020-09-22T17:06:32.000Z
- Description: LGBTQ+ organisation Stonewall has announced it will continue its campaign to allow for trans people to alter their birth certificates without medical diagnosis.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Politics, Gender non-conforming, Gender Recognition Act, LGBTQ, Liz Truss, Stonewall, Trans, Trans Rights, Transgender, UK, UK News

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LGBTQ+ organisation **Stonewall** has [announced](https://twitter.com/stonewalluk/status/1307598540139626497?ref=scenemag.co.uk) it will continue its campaign to allow for trans people to alter their birth certificates without medical diagnosis after speculation the proposal was to be dropped. The **UK** government has decided against allowing individuals to ‘self-identify’ but are planning to reduce the cost of making amendments to ones birth certificate.

However, a Stonewall spokesperson told **[The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/20/stonewall-continue-trans-campaign-right-change-birth-certificates?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**: *“We continue to campaign for a de-medicalised, streamlined system of legal gender recognition based on self-determination.”*

Current legalisation means trans and gender non-conforming people must have medical evidence of gender dysphoria before being allowed to change their birth certificates. Stonewall hopes that the medical element of this process will be removed. Trans inclusive reforms to the 2004 **Gender Recognition Act (GRA)** that would recognise people’s self-identified gender as their legal identity, were delayed earlier this year, with Stonewall [saying](https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/stonewall-statement-delay-gender-recognition-act-reform?ref=scenemag.co.uk#:~:text=Talk%20to%20them%20about%20why%20reform%20of%20the,accepted%20without%20exception.%E2%80%99%20Take%20action%20for%20trans%20equality.) ‘trans people are being asked to wait for equality that is long overdue.’

**Liz Truss**, the equalities minister, confirmed the government’s position on the GRA reform yesterday.

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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND – JUNE 12: Protesters demonstrate outside the Scotish Parliament for reform of the Gender Recognition Act, in an event organised by the Scottish Trans Alliance, on June 12, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Ken Jack/Getty Images)