The Gender Recognition Panel is a tribunal in the

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dealing with transsexual and

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concerns and allowing people to change their

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. It was founded to satisfy the

Gender Recognition Act 2004 The Gender Recognition Act 2004 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that allows people who have gender dysphoria to change their legal gender. It came into effect on 4 April 2005. Operation of the law The Gender Recognition Act ...

, which legislates its decision-making process. It issues gender recognition certificates for people who "live in another gender". The members of the panel are appointed by the

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with the agreement of the presidents of the Courts for England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Only lawyers, medical practitioners or psychologists may be appointed to the panel. Its current president, Paula Gray, was appointed by

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in 2019.

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