{"id":46808,"date":"2021-12-17T12:07:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=46808"},"modified":"2021-12-17T12:07:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:07:51","slug":"outrage-after-supreme-court-declines-use-of-gender-neutral-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/outrage-after-supreme-court-declines-use-of-gender-neutral-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage after supreme court declines use of gender neutral passports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The court case for gender neutral passports to be used in the UK has ended with the government\u2019s refusal to implement them. Their argument was that &#8220;a biographical detail which can be used to confirm their identity&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The appeal which was made by Christie Elan-Cane was dismissed by the Supreme Court. This has led to the case being taken to the European Court of Human Rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legal battle has been ongoing for decades and so far, Countries such as New Zealand, the US, Pakistan, and Germany have implemented gender neutral passports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Openly\/status\/1471435183308029957?s=20\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-59667786\">BBC<\/a>, Lord Reed stated that \u201cgender could be checked against birth, adoption or gender recognition certificates as part of confirming an applicant&#8217;s identity\u201d and that &#8220;There is no legislation in the United Kingdom which recognises a non-gendered category of individuals&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court case for gender neutral passports to be used in the UK has ended with the government\u2019s refusal to implement them. Their argument was that &#8220;a biographical detail which can be used to confirm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":46826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,93,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lgbtqi","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46906,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46808\/revisions\/46906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}