Boris Johnson to scrap gender self-identification plans
According to the paper, while around 70 per cent of the 100,000 responses to the consultation supported the reforms, officials said this figure had been "skewed" by an "avalance" of responses from trans rights groups.
Plans to allow people to 'self-identify' as a different sex were first put forward by the Government under Theresa May. The proposed reforms would remove the need for medical evidence and change the length of time required by a transgender person to live in their acquired gender from two years to three months.
The proposals have faced strong opposition from women's and Christian groups, who are calling for the protection of single-sex spaces....
