- The MP suggested that the deceased should be legally given their chosen gender
Labor MP Charlotte Nichols has suggested that dead people should be able to change their gender – as the spread of gender ideology has been described as “patently absurd”.
Ms Nichols, the MP for Warrington North, asked whether the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004 could be changed “to allow deceased transgender people to be legally remembered as the gender in which they lived” .
In his response to the MP's written question to Parliament last month, Equalities Minister Stuart Andrew said the government had no plans to make further changes to the law.
“If a person used their new gender with an organization before their death and this was included in their personal records, we assume that the organization would interact with their family members and use the new gender,” he said.
Mr Andrew reportedly stated that these “organizations could include the NHS” – his reaction sparked fears that self-identification could be “normalised” within the NHS.
Labor MP Charlotte Nichols (pictured) has suggested that dead people should be able to change their gender
Ms Nichols, the MP for Warrington North, asked whether the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004 could be amended “to enable deceased transgender people to be legally remembered as the gender in which they lived” ( stock photo)
Speaking about recent developments in gender ideology, Sir Liam Fox, MP for North Somerset, said: “It is patently absurd, factually inaccurate and a statistical distortion.”
“We should not promote the idea that people can simply choose to change their biological status, nor should we bend the truth to accommodate an increasingly extreme and dangerous ideology.”
Lucy Marsh, a spokeswoman for the Family Education Trust, said: “It is extremely worrying that Labor appears to be pushing for gender identity adoption through the back door.”
“If coroners are allowed to lie about the gender of deceased children in public records, this will certainly be a slippery slope towards the normalization of self-identification in the NHS.”
Ms Nichols told The Telegraph: “My question follows a recent petition supported by many of my constituents to change the Gender Recognition Act.”
“The origin of the petition was the murder of my constituent Brianna Ghey, whose life was brutally ended before she was old enough to be officially recognized for who she was and how her family, friends and our community will remember her. “'