§ Lord Joplingasked Her Majesty's Government:
What facilities in law exist to reclassify a person's gender where the true genetic gender was wrongly attributed at birth. [HL991]
Lord McIntosh of Haringey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
118WALetter from the Registrar General, Len Cook, dated 5 February 2004.
As Registrar General for England and Wales, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what facilities in law exist to reclassify a person's gender where the true genetic gender was wrongly attributed at birth. (HL991)
Where there is doubt about the sex of a baby at birth, parents are advised to delay registration of the birth to allow specialist doctors to appropriately classify the gender of the child.
If an error is made and a person's sex at birth is wrongly recorded, the entry in the birth register can be corrected. Medical evidence of the error is required, together with statutory declarations explaining how the error came to be made and what the true facts were at the time of birth.