Labour still don't know what a woman is!'

Anger at plan to let GPs sign off certificate for change of gender

- Sam Lister

LABOUR'S plan to make it easier to switch gender is self-identification in all but name, critics have claimed.

Sir Keir Starmer is looking at ending the need for two doctors and an expert panel to agree to a Gender Recognition Certificate by allowing a family GP to sign it off instead.

Opponents said that shows Labour "still don't know what a woman is" and warned the reforms go too far.

Downing Street said there was "no reason whatsoever" to relax current safeguards. The Prime Minister's spokesman said: "The process of changing one's legal sex is a serious and meaningful undertaking."