A Labour MP has sparked outrage after calling for a change in the law to allow people’s gender to be changed on official records after their death. Warrington North MP Charlotte Nichols called for the change in a written parliamentary question to the Cabinet Office last month. She asked if the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004 could be amended to allow for “transgender people who are deceased to be legally remembered by the gender they lived by”. It would mean that those who had not undergone surgical treatment could be identified as a different gender. “The genesis of the petition was the mur…