If you don't mind me asking do you have legal status as a woman or do you need to apply for these documents in order to get that? Ad astra per aspera
The gender recognition certificate was brought in for that purpose but the legislation specifically states that it is not to be used as an identification certificate (despite which, the LGBT police officer demanded one from TGs who wanted to use the female loo at Pride). Course I can't retire at 60 whatever I do cos that would cost HM Govt money. keep to the Fen Causeway
Would there be a risk of the marriage being revoked at a later stage if your gender becomes officially recognised through whatever process?
No, because they oblige you to have a divorce from any official partnership before you go through. It was never an issue for me as I didn't have a partnership, but a lot of my official pre-op recognition was dependent on my being single. keep to the Fen Causeway
Makes one want to go to sleep and not wake up until the 22nd century.
- Jake Ceterum censeo Chicago esse delendam
Plus a lot of this comes from custom and practice when lesbian relationships weren't officially recognised. Also in the UK the medical profession make you jump through a lot of stupid hoops to prove to them you're serious and worth wasting money on.
Plus there's a whole heap of expectations from psychologists that the transgendered should conform to stereotypical feminine behaviours, one of which must involve a desire to play happy families with men. Being sexually orientated towards women definitely counts against you and so being married or wanting to continue a relationship with a woman would be the end of your ambitions to change gender.
And then bigot wimminists use conforming to those very stereotypes against us. Gah, ya can't win !!
Again, I'm glad I didn't have to put up with any of that crap, but those who did remain angry even decades later. The psychiatrist who started the gender re-assignment clinic was such a monster that, 25 years after his death, his resting place apparently still smells of wee from those who've pissed on his grave. keep to the Fen Causeway
