A group of MPs from multiple parties has strongly criticized amendments to the UK's Data (Use and Access) Bill that may force trans individuals to be outed by maintaining records that reflect their sex at birth instead of their legally recognized gender. This change could lead to erroneous public records, harming health and legal rights for trans people. While the likelihood of the amendments passing is low due to Labour's majority, significant concerns about civil liberties and state overreach have been raised, emphasizing the potential for institutionalized erasure of identity.
If the state can override your legal identity, record you as something you are not, and share that across every public system, then no one's rights are safe.
This isn't data accuracy, it's institutionalised erasure and it has a very dark, authoritarian dystopia klaxon attached to it. Anyone remotely interested in living in a free, fair and tolerant society should oppose this.
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