Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:05 pm on 9 June 2021.
If providing dignity for our citizens is the baseline for the fair Wales we should all try to create, then the right to live free of persecution is also fundamental. Last year, after two years of delay, the UK Government announced its response to the consultation on reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004. That flawed Act was supposed to allow trans people to receive legal recognition, but the bureaucratic, medical and expensive process prevented many from doing that. Despite the view of the majority of people who responded to the consultation on the Gender Recognition Act, the UK Government failed to secure a process that would assist trans people to live their daily lives with dignity.