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Sex swaps for 16-year-olds

  • October 2022

The Scottish Government is pushing ahead with dramatic plans to make it easier to change legal sex.

The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill will lower the minimum age from 18 to 16, as well as dangerously speeding up the process and replacing medical diagnosis with self-declaration, also called ‘self-ID’.

References

References

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