Last year saw the highest number of people change their legally designated sex since the introduction of Gender Recognition Act in 2015.

The Act allows someone change their official sex from male to female or female to male, regardless of their underlying biological sex, and be issued with a new birth cert and passport to reflect their choice.

This is part of gender ideology which says that biological sex, and the ‘preferred-gender’ a person may ‘self-identify’ as, has no real relationship.

The Government records the figures for those who change their legal sex. It does not record the number of those who ‘socially-transition’, (change their name and how they present themselves) or those who ‘medically transition’, through hormonal or surgical interventions. The latter two can both be done without changing one’s official sex; and likewise, one may change one’s official sex without socially or medically ‘transitioning’.

Last year, 367 people changed their legal sex, the highest ever, and a total 2248 since 2015.

Nine people aged 16 or 17 changed their official sex, another high, up from just three over each of the previous three years.

Three people requested their change be revoked so they could revert to their original sex. There have been 13 since 2015.