An Open Letter and Plea to Justine Greening, Minister of Education on her Gender Identity Proposals

Dear Minister, Ms Greening,

I am writing to you to express my concern, and the concern of millions of others over your governments recent proposals announced concerning people being able to legally (if not in reality) change gender.   You announced this weekend that “what we want to do is streamline the process, make it easier, demedicalise it and make it less intrusive”.

As you are aware the current Gender Recognition Act 2004 recognises that there is such a condition as gender dysphoria but insists that before legally changing gender they must have lived in their new gender for two years and have obtained a certificate from a gender recognition panel.  You are proposing to change this so that gender change can be done by simple self-declaration.   In addition to this you want to add to the number of genders – adding to male and female gender X.

There is considerable pressure for this from a  very small but vocal group of people within society.  And it appears that you, the Prime Minister, the leader of the Opposition and indeed most of the political class have given into this pressure.  I wonder if you are happy to be on the same radical agenda as Jeremy Corbyn?    I am writing you because I regard it as a fundamental error which will cause considerable harm to our society and to many people within it – especially those for whom you have a particular responsibility as Minister of State for Education, children.  I would urge you to consider the following problems:

Read also:  Individuals to self-identify gender under new government proposals, Christian Concern

The Orwellian nightmare of transgender politics by Brendan O’Neill, spiked

Forcing girls to compete against transgender boys is insane by Peter Saunders, Christian Medical Fellowship

Gender Reassignment – lunatic proposals: Letter to Justine Greening from Conservative Grassroots