The Gender Recognition Act was established to enable a legal fiction to accommodate transsexual people who had undergone surgery --to give them a right to privacy from revealing their true sex when it is not relevant.
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That is the starting point unless your alleging that medical service providers are jumping straight to surgical options. My understanding is that transsexual only applies post-operatively - as such self diagnosis would be reserved to self indentification as transgender.
I hear medical practitioners saying they are under strong pressure not not consider other reasons or solutions for gender dysphoria other than transitioning https://twitter.com/MakeMoreNoise2/status/1203272260343214080 … I am using transsexual as that is the language of the Gender Recognition Act and the Equality Actpic.twitter.com/bI0exa2fUs
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i.e transsexual = person proposing to/ undergoing/undergone social or medical transition A child that experiences gender dysphoria may or may not grow up to be transsexual.
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Protecting children's rights and supporting mental health does not require changing birth certificates to the opposite sex
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I stand corrected on the definition.
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