Chris

Worth pointing out that those who actually have a GRC are a very tiny minority of our so-called ‘transgender’ population. Most people who say they’re transgender are just crossdressers, a few are body-modders (mainly hormone treatment, sometimes surgery), and a very few go the whole hog and apply to get their documents changed. In these cases the State has to pretend it doesn’t know that a man is a man (or vice versa) and treat him as a woman, and that involves as few public sector workers as possible getting access to any official record that might give the game away.

You can put this down to the law of unintended consequences behaving as normal rather than any deliberate attempt to plate favourites.