Gender: Registration
(asked on 25th October 2021) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she will take to ensure the recording of biological natal sex on all records in her Department's remit.
This question was answered on 2nd November 2021
The General Register Office records sex as part of a birth registration. Her Majesty’s Passport Office currently use the sex recorded on the customer’s birth certificate to record the customer’s gender on the passport and in passport records.
The Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 and associated regulations prescribe the information to be recorded in a birth entry.