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  Gender Recognition Bill [Lords] &#8212; Successful applications: married couples
  
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  <p>I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.</p>
  
  <p>This is a Bill with a simple rationale. It addresses the difficulties faced by a small, vulnerable minority who have been denied basic legal rights for too long, and seeks to provide transsexual people with legal recognition of an everyday reality: the gender to which they now belong. On meeting the criteria in the Bill, a person will become in law the gender in which he or she now lives. That means that he or she will be able to get a birth certificate that reflects the acquired gender, and be able to marry or claim a pension in that gender.</p>
  
  <p><i>Question put</i>, That the Bill be now read the Third time:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p><i>Those voting Aye in this division were voting for to allow a transsexual person to change their legal gender.</i></p>
  
  <p><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 355, Noes 46.</p>
  
  
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