A pledge to give time for a debate in Parliament on assisted dying and promise of reform of the gender recognition process are included in the Liberal Democrats’ manifesto.
Someone wanting to be legally recognised in their affirmed gender currently has to provide two medical reports written by two different medical doctors or clinical psychologists in the UK when applying for a GRC. Party candidate Layla Moran has previously spoken of trans people facing an “injustice” as their married spouses have a “veto” over whether they can be legally recognised as their preferred gender.
The subject of assisted dying has come to the fore more so in the past year after Dame Esther Rantzen spoke out about her support for a change in the law, as she revealed she was living with stage four cancer.