Charlotte Nichols, a Labour Party MP, has requested changes to the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) of 2004 to permit posthumous gender changes.
A British lawmaker has called for a law that would allow transgender people to change their officially recognized gender to match their true gender identity after they pass away. (AFP)
According to The Telegraph, Labour Party MP Charlotte Nichols has requested changes to Britain’s Gender Recognition Act (GRA) from 2004 to permit posthumous gender changes. Nichols recently requested that the Act be changed “to help transgender people who are deceased to be officially remembered by the gender they lived by” in a written query to the Parliament.
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Nichols claimed that her inquiry was in response to a new petition asking for changes to the GRA, according to The Telegraph.
The Labour Party MP stated that the petition’s inception was the death of my constituent Brianna Ghey, whose life was brutally ended before she was old enough to receive proper constitutional recognition of her identity and how she will be remembered by her relatives, friends, and our community.
Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe planned to attack Brianna Ghey, a 16-year-old trans woman from Britain, in February 2023. Jenkinson and Ratcliffe recently received sentences of at least 22 and 20 years, respectively. It was discovered that Ratcliffe was partially driven by animosity toward Brianna’s trans identity.
Nichols continued, “The Government at the time stated that they did not believe any measures were required, but I have continued to raise this issue with my constituents and will do so with the Government in accordance with their wishes so that bereaved families may have this opportunity.”
However, rights minister Stuart Andrew has stated that there are no plans for the government to further update the Act. He was cited by The Telegraph as saying, “Where a person was using their new gender with an organization due to their gender transition, and that was on their official records, therefore we anticipate that the organization would interact with their family members using that gender.”
