Equality Bill

My Lords, arising out of this amendment, I would like to know what the Government intend by the reference to, ""a process (or part of a process)"." I notice that the Equality and Human Rights Commission objects, in its response to the amendment, to adding the words "under medical supervision", but it says: ""Most transgender people do not live permanently in their acquired gender and many do not undergo medical reassignment at all. This may be due, for example, to their age or health"." It then goes on to talk about younger people. I would like to know what the Government say about this. I am not clear how Clause 7 will work if the transgender people do not live permanently in their acquired gender. What happens after they stop living in their acquired gender, because the definition in the Bill refers to a person who is, ""undergoing or has undergone a process"?" I think that that would mean that, if this had happened at one stage in a person’s life, it would stay like that for the rest of their life. However, the commission, which knows much more about this than I could ever do, says: ""Most transgender people do not live permanently in their acquired gender"."