The dress is the point
It’s literally all about the dress.
“For me it was a case of, I wanted to get married, and I didn’t want to have to, on my wedding day, write down ‘Mister Male’ on what should be [voice quavers with emotion here] one of the most feminine-feeling days of my life, getting married to the person I love….Largely a gender recognition certificate is significant for someone to be affirmed as who they are when they get married.”
Interviewer helpfully says it’s about a feeling, an identity, not about doing x y or z.
“It’s about validity, and it’s about who you are not being disregarded. It’s about, [with extra emotion, and gestures] on my wedding day, in my beautiful white dress, on this day, not having to go and write down [with burly gestures] ‘I am male!’.”
My dress, my dress! My beautiful white dress!
It doesn’t seem to occur to him that he can just wear his damn dress, without first having to drive a truck through women’s rights to do it.
I really have very little time for credentials culture in any form, other than certificates that indicate the holder has reached a certain level of competence and are not a menace to others when the they drive, perform dentistry or whatever. I suppose my parents’ death certificates indicated that my father was male and my mother was female, but I can’t say I checked and wouldn’t be bothered if they’d been misgendered. It would make no difference at all to them, because they were dead by then, to me, or to anyone else on earth.
Given that in the UK anyone can marry anyone who’s single, compos mentis, over 18 and not already a close relation, I really don’t see that gender need play any formal role in a civil wedding ceremony.
What I’m saying. He can wear the damn dress. He doesn’t need a “certificate” that “affirms” him as being the flavor of person who is allowed to wear a dress.
Here’s a UK Parliamentary petition calling for the repeal of the Gender Recognition Act (and hence affirmatory certificates) which has reached the 10,000 signatures that necessitate a government response, and which anyone eligible to vote in the UK can sign: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/628382