Britain’s Liberal Democrats party has called for the removal of the terms ‘male’ and ‘female’ from official forms to end ‘discrimination’ against transgender and intersex people.

The plan, placed before the party’s national conference, is entitled the Transgender and Intersex Health Charter, and would see a raft of measures introduced by the party towards greater accommodation of gender types other than male and female together with legal and medical supports to allow people to realise their preferred gender type.

The party further called on the British government “to recognise and observe Bisexual Visibility Day (23 September), Intersex Awareness Day (26 October) and Transgender Day of Remembrance (20 November)”.

Party members subsequently voted for a phased removal of all references to male and female from official Liberal Democrat publications. Acknowledging that there may be instances where a gender differentiation on forms, such as applications, may be necessary, the party backed a proposal to have such forms also include the tick boxes for ‘X’ and ‘Mx’.