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On the getting of a gender recognition certificate

A short history in two snarks: snark the second

jane fae
9 min readSep 11, 2022

Gender recognition certificate
Gender Recognition Certificate

My continuing adventures in the gender recognition trade.

Still mostly harmless.

Now read on…

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Typical! I ended my last piece on my journey to gender recognition nirvana with acknowledgment that the system that i used is no more. Or at least, what is offered online is not how it was when i, back in ye olden days (well, April 2022) filed my gender recognition application.

Two main differences: there is a document checker, which sets out the documents you need to amass before submitting your application; and the forms are now online. Though if you are really determined to go hard copy — and there are arguments for doing that — you can do so if you search the grc application page very diligently.

Whatever, I shall assume that the questions online are the same hard copy questions.

All about the T

Still, back in my day, it was all about the T.

Wot? Even for a trans woman?

Yes. The forms you had to get filled in were labelled, imaginatively T450, T451, T452. Those are forms i have seen to…

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Written by jane fae

Feminist, writer, campaigner on political and sexual liberty who also knows a bit about IT, the law and policing. Not entirely serious…

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