Dead people should be able to change gender

[motorbiking]

Obviously a good use of time and money

'Dead people should be able to change their gender', says Labour MP

Charlotte Nichols asked if the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004 could be edited 'to allow transgender people who are deceased to be legally remembered by the gender they lived by'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[THFC]

 

[denso13]

Stupid headline which appeals to their readership.

 

[blup]

Its kind of logical if the change took place before death. Even the daily flail respects pronoun changes for living tranz for all its huffing and puffing on the issue. That said the dead are not generally protected by libel laws, image rights (the Diana mug) etc so it would create a precedent.

 

[motorbiking]

What is the point? The person is dead.

 

[denso13]

What is the point?

The wishes of the family. The wishes of the person before they were murdered?

The person is dead.

Then how can they change their gender? How can dead people do anything like the headline says?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

What is the point? The person is dead.

[John Clease voice] This parrot is dead, deceased, is no more....

 

[carmanmemoranda]

What is the point? The person is dead.

The genesis of the petition was the murder of my constituent Brianna Ghey, whose life was brutally cut short before she was old enough to have formal legal recognition of who she was and how she will be remembered by her family, friends and our community.'

 

[Andydevon]

Did you miss the point of the person being dead then? (however sad their demise was and cruel where the perpetrators have bee brought to some form of justice)

 

[blup]

What is the point? The person is dead.

It’s a point about general respect. You would know about it if you publicly insulted Captain T

 

[denso13]

Did you miss the point of the person being dead then?

It's about respecting the dead, and the family's wishes. It's a very unusual case.

 

[securespark]

It's not changing gender so much as voicing their wishes to be remembered as they were when they were living.

Obviously in the case of BG, they had not got so far as any legal recognition, much less lodged any kind of will, but living as they did would be enough to indicate that they would want to be remembered as they were.

As blup and denso said, it's about respect.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Did you miss the point of the person being dead then? (however sad their demise was and cruel where the perpetrators have bee brought to some form of justice)

No, I didn't miss any of the points.

Did you ?

 

[Mottie]

Why not. No different from those awarded posthumous medals and awards.

 

[Andydevon]

No not in the slightest.