Alarm at ease of changing gender on driving licence

CAMPAIGNERS fear that changing gender on official documents is too easy and "pushes people further towards irreversible treatments".

- Steph Spyro

More than 16,200 have changed the detail on their driving licence since 2018 a record 3,488 switched it last year, a rise from 2,467 in 2018, according to data obtained via the Freedom of Information Act from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.

A spokeswoman for Bayswater, a support group for parents with transidentified children, said: "We have been concerned that for some years the DVLA has allowed vulnerable children and young adults to falsify their sex status on driving licences under the guise of 'changing gender'.

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