'Remembered by the gender they lived by': Let the dead change their genders, progressive UK politician says

A left-wing politician in England has requested that her government amend the law to allow for alleged transgender people to have their official genders changed after they have died.

Charlotte Nichols, a Labour Party politician from Warrington North in England, called for a change in a written parliamentary question. The progressive asked if the U.K.'s Gender Recognition Act could be amended so that a person's legal gender could be changed after the person's death.

Her reasoning stems from the story of a murdered 16-year-old girl who Nichols claimed was not yet old enough to change her gender when she died.

"The genesis of the petition was the murder of my constituent Brianna Ghey, whose life was brutally cut short before she was old enough to have formal legal recognition of who she was and how she will be remembered by her family, friends, and our community," Nichols said, according to GB News.

This would allow "transgender people who are deceased to be legally remembered by the gender they lived by," the member of Parliament added.

The ruling Conservative Party abruptly said there were no plans to change the law and that the government can already assess whether a person had a "new gender" before death.

"Where a person was using their new gender with an organization prior to their death, and that was on their personal records, then we anticipate that the organization would engage with their family members using the new gender," said Equalities Minister Stuart Andrew.

Another member of Parliament, Sir Liam Fox, called the idea "patently absurd, factually inaccurate, and a statistical distortion."

"We should not be encouraging the idea that people can simply choose to change their biological status, nor should we bend truth to accommodate an ever more extreme and dangerous ideology," the MP for North Somerset, England, added.

Nichols, who has been pictured in U.K. Parliament sporting a leather jacket, has presented other ideas in reaction to the aforementioned teen girl's death.

Nichols suggested that the government prevent children under 16 from accessing social media by giving them specially designed phones:

"We'd like a law introduced so that there are mobile phones that are only suitable for under-16s," she said, according to the BBC. "So if you're over 16, you can have an adult phone, but then under the age of 16, you can have a children's phone, which will not have all of the social media apps that are out there now," Nichols added.

The 32-year-old also suggested that the technology should be linked to a parent's phone and claimed it has been "just not doable" for parents to track their kids' activity.

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