The Campaign
Dignity for trans people who have died should be a simple, indisputable right.
Unfortunately, it isn’t.
The vast majority of trans people in the UK want wholesale reform of the Gender Recognition Act - and we know that despite several years of a concerted campaign in the media by various prominent anti-trans activists, the majority of the British people still support this. We will someday get there. But in the meantime, there is an obvious hole in the law which needs to be patched.
We are campaigning for a small, technical change in the law to allow for two things:
Where a trans person of any age without a GRC is diagnosed with a terminal illness, they can apply for a GRC through an expedited process via statutory declaration, allowing them peace of mind about how their death will be recorded
Where a trans person of any age has died without a GRC, their next of kin may obtain one for them through an expedited process via statutory declaration, and get birth, marriage and death certificates reissued as appropriate, to allow them to be recorded as who they were in life
Signature Count:
12783
(last fetched: 28/02/2023 17:00)
Waiting for a response for:
9 days
12.7% of 100000 required for debate
What you can do to help…
Please keep signing and sharing this petition. You can also share it on Twitter, or any social media you use, we’d love to see you share it anywhere. If we can get this to 100k, they must hold a Parliamentary debate on the topic. Feeling particularly bold? Email your MP! You can confirm who that is at theyworkforyou.co.uk - ask them to support our campaign, or any campaign on trans rights. You can also print off the IRL campaigning materials (complete with QR code linking to the petition) and ask venues in your area to put them up.
What it means to us…
“I’d want my wife to be able to do this for me, if I dropped dead tomorrow.”
“It’s been in the back of my mind for years, but getting a GRC is so difficult.”
“My daughter refuses to get a GRC because the process is so demeaning. The thought of her being buried “male” makes me feel sick.”
“It never even occurred to me that this would be a thing I’d have to fight for for my trans loved ones. Horrific.”
“It would mean dignity in death, something everyone has except for trans people who haven’t been able to obtain a GRC in life. No person should be exempt from dignity.”