MichaelT

I discuss LGBT, trans, ageing, health and other stuff. Trans, male, man, gay-bisexual-ish. All views my own and not those of my employer. He/him.

[MichaelT @mjt683]

@brynismyname But also if someone else has an interest in challenging it - e.g. the Corbett v Corbett situation where legal sex got taken to court at the point where the ex didn't want to make a financial settlement.

[MichaelT @mjt683]

Briefly popping back to Twitter to comment on some of the discussion around Gender Recognition and the list of overseas countries, as some of the coverage seems to me inaccurate.

[MichaelT @mjt683]

@jonjonbaldwin @chinmj Not (as far as I know) in a church setting, but there has been a marriage voided over this kind of issue: https://t.co/xcBiYtjnZR

[MichaelT @mjt683]

@chinmj This detail is incorrect. Passports were available in 'acquired' gender before the gender recognition act. This was e.g. noted in the Goodwin case in 2002 that led to the GRA (https://t.co/NyNmJa69GM{%22itemid%22:[%22001-60596%22]} Doesn't affect your overall point though

[Josie Giles @HJosephineGiles]

this is kinda smart from UKGov: plays to the transphobic base, looks like they're doing something, avoids massive constitutional crisis over something they just want to use as a wee culture war recruiting sergeant

kinda legally unworkable in practice tho

https://t.co/rg1aRFWX0W

[MichaelT @mjt683]

So this seems to me to be largely a mean-spirited gesture, with relatively little practical impact other than creating more bureaucracy for trans people, and leaving more people with uncertain status that's hard to resolve.

[MichaelT @mjt683]

But the situation above could create pitfalls for Susan if she (for example) decides to get married or start a family in the UK, and there's inconsistency over the paperwork.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Starmer: “The only time he ran in a competitve election he got trounced by the former Prime Minister, who herself got beaten by a lettuce.”