I could become the first person to be neither male nor female under UK law.
I could become the first person to be neither male nor female under UK law I don’t know, legally speaking, what my gender is here in the UK. I do, of course, know my actual gender. I’m non-binary. As are tens of thousands of other people here, according to the latest census. It even says so on my birth certificate. For most people, that would determine their legal gender. The problem is, the UK Government claims that, by law, everyone must be ‘female’ or ‘male’.
unable to be classified as either male or female’. That alone took eight months. Two years to get British Airways to change my title to ‘Mx’. I’m still arguing with HMRC. More from Platform Platform is the home of Metro.co.uk's first-person and opinion pieces, devoted to giving a platform to underheard and underrepresented voices in the media.