The Bill changes the process to get a gender recognition certificate (GRC). A GRC is a certificate that legally recognises that a person’s gender is not the gender that they were assigned at birth, but is their “acquired gender”.
The current process for obtaining a GRC is set out in the Gender Recognition Act 2004. This Bill amends that Act to make a new process in Scotland.
The Bill sets out:
It also makes provision about:
As with all Bills, the Finance and Public Administration Committee invites written evidence on the estimated financial implications of the Bill as set out in its accompanying Financial Memorandum (FM).
Read the FM for this Bill: Financial Memorandum
The call for views on the Bill's FM closed on 20 May 2022.
The Committee received 6 submissions to the call for views. Read the submissions received on Citizen Space.
The Committee agreed to forward the submissions received to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee as part of that Committee's consideration of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill and to take no further action.
A supplementary FM on the expected costs associated with amendments made at Stage 2 of the Bill was published on 7 December 2022. The Committee noted the supplementary FM at its meeting on 13 December 2022.