“It’s hard to take anything the government says seriously after this,” Carey-Stuart said. On 21 May, the Cabinet Office confirmed that the government had “no plans” to add non-binary genders to existing gender recognition laws in the UK because the government believes it would have “complex practical consequences”. More than 136,000 people had signed a petition asking the government to add non-binary identities to existing gender recognition laws in the UK. The demand was for the Gender Recognition Act (GRA), which allows adult trans men and women to change their legal sex, to be amended so that non-binary people could “be legally seen as their true gender identity”.