OldCrone , Yes my family member (who is a lawyer, but doesn’t work on cases such as this) said now that same sex marriage is legal the GRA could be challenged on the grounds that it is redundant. Personally I don’t think people should be permitted to legally change their sex, even if they have had cosmetic surgery to be honest. The reason is it can then open it up for males to gain the right to enter females spaces, participate in female sports, have their stats included within females etc, which I do not think should be permitted. There are also cases of males who have had full surgery now claiming to be ‘lesbian women’ and speaking on behalf of lesbians. None of these things should be legal in my opinion and need opposing. The fact that they can change their sex on documents without even using the GRA also needs to go. Those who wish to have or have had surgeries (for whatever reason) have to accept the limitations of those surgeries in my opinion. Those who do not wish to infringe on females rights won’t push themselves into female spaces and initiatives designed to address sexism, or call themselves ‘lesbian women’ etc., so any law that forbids those things should not really impact them.
Mancheese that is interesting. I think maybe using the word ‘stereotypes’ could avoid the muddle. For example, everyone should be protected from discrimination due to their sex, regardless of any stereotypical apparel they choose to wear or not. It really needs to be made explicitly clear that a male wearing a dress, make-up etc, should not experience discrimination in work, employment etc, due to not following stereotypes associated with males. However, it does not entitle him to force others to pretend he is a female, or entitle him to use spaces, initiatives, etc, reserved for females.
The problem in my opinion is those that benefit from sexism (and the accompanying stereotypes), do not really want it to be eliminated, instead they just want to pay lip-service to opposing it. That includes judges, who will interpret the law in whatever way reenforces sexism and stereotypes, which I think is why we get the results you highlight. I think we must make the law very clear, in order to prevent them from twisting it to their own ends, and circumventing females rights.