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I don’t have a Gender Recognition Certificate — and I don’t want one
A GRC is not some sort of transgender licence, nor a certificate to prove that someone is transgender. I have no GRC, and I have no intention of getting one.
The UK can’t ignore Scotland’s gender recognition Bill
The UK government cannot and must not abrogate its responsibilities to the people of Scotland who have a right to single sex services
How many people are actually trans?
If this data shows anything, there is a fad going on among younger people that is passing their elders by
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My Transition
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Womanhood is not a feeling in my head or anyone else’s. I was certainly driven to transition, but not because I was trapped in another body. I now realise there is only me in here, and that I have always been here.
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I don’t live in the UK, but I would imagine that unprincipled and predatory men would use an easily-obtained GRC…
You are quite right that it is the legal changes that matter, not the GRC – a fact which women…
Debbie Hayton
Physics teacher and trade unionist, originally from the north of England.
As a trans person I have written extensively about what it means to be trans, and how trans people can be accommodated in society without compromising the rights of other vulnerable groups.
Bylines in The Times, Spectator, Unherd, RT, Morning Star, Economist, Quillette, Mail+ and elsewhere.
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“So, while the Equality Act might allow them to offer single-sex services, they have no way of distinguishing — on…