Transgender and non-binary categories have been added to official documents for reporting the death of a child.
The Department of Health and Social Care has this month updated the forms that must be submitted following the tragic loss of a young person.
The documentation asks, “What gender did the child identify with at the time of death?”
It includes the categories “male (including trans man),” “female (including trans woman),” and “non-binary.”
In July, the form simply listed “male,” “female,” “other,” and “unknown” in the “sex” category.
The Department of Health and Social Care has added transgender and non-binary categories to official documents for reporting the death of a child.
Labor MP Charlotte Nichols called for changes to the Gender Recognition Act “to allow deceased transgender people to be legally remembered by the gender they lived as”.
Labor MP Charlotte Nichols called for changes to the Gender Recognition Act following the murder of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey last year, “to allow deceased transgender people to be legally remembered by the gender in which they lived”.
But while some will welcome the change, it has drawn criticism.
Conservative spokesperson for women and equalities Mims Davies said: “It is profoundly insensitive for families to then be asked… whether their deceased child was trans or non-binary to tick boxes for the UK’s diversity officers. NHS”.
Helen Joyce, of the charity Sex Matters, said: “This ill-conceived, agenda-driven question must be abandoned immediately.”
The Department of Health and NHS England have been contacted for comment.
There were calls for changes to the Gender Recognition Act following the murder of 16-year-old transgender girl Brianna Ghey last year.