39 Days Left

[PersistenceIsNotFutile]

The public consultation closes on 19 October.

You can find it here:
consult.education.gov.uk/government-equalities-office/reform-of-the-gender-recognition-act/consultation/intro/

Helpful guidance can be found here:
fairplayforwomen.com/full_guide/

and here:
womansplaceuk.org/wpuk-guidance-on-gra-consultation/

You can log in, answer a few questions, safe your spot, and come back to it later.

Don't delay. 39 days left.

Thanks for the reminder. Mine is still saved - need to get a move on.

Done, thanks for the reminder.

I haven't done it yet - and in a way, I'm pleased I didn't do it right at the beginning, because so much has happened since July.

I will do it by the deadline.

I've done mine. Didn't think I had much to say but ended up ranting in each section.

I have to not think about it now, it makes me so angry my blood pressure can't take it.

I'm going through a compare/contrast between the two guidance pages given by FPFW and WPUK. There are some different answers, which I feel is good; it's made me think deeper on my own opinions.

38 days left. Bump.

I've done mine and helped DH complete his. I'm helping six other family members with theirs and sending links to friends (who may well unfriend me)

Excellent! Hope they don't unfriend you. :)

I clicked save and continue on two separate occasions, and the second time it took me back to my first version, sans all my ranty later bits! anybody else you find this?

I've always done ours in one go as I'm sceptical. I save answers in a word document - which can be adapted and tailored to other forms.

I don't trust them. They are making this as hard as possible. But I just push back harder.

Ignore the above^ it was all still there once I clicked through, the progress bar apparently doesn't work as I had expected it to. My blood pressure was too high to check properly...

I set aside an afternoon for it. I started ok but as I persisted I felt increasingly hard of thinking. Procrastination is one of my major faults so I was determined to finish. I worried that if I saved it to go back later I might forget, so I trudged on. I started just cut and pasting FPFW advice.

Finished it finally, saved it, logged out, and about 15 minutes later I was hit by a gale force migraine. Haven't had one like that for a long time.

Feel like such a dick. Why didn't I register what was happening? If I think about it I feel like a little puddle of shame. I could have done so much better.

Not that there's anything wrong with the advice, but it's more powerful if submissions to the consultation are bespoke and personal. I intended mine to be the best prose and evidence I could muster. I'm fed up with myself.

Prawn, if you like, I could incorporate some of your answers into mine? I haven't finished yet and am saving my answers in a word document as I go along so I can easily find what I want to edit/add upon before submission.

Prawn - could you help a relative or friend with theirs and maybe incoroporate answers?

Just be pleased you did it. Numbers are key too and I'm sure you have/can influence others.

What a very kind offer, PersistenceIsNotFutile. That's brilliant. Never occurred to me. Like a new lease of life.

Give me a week or so to craft my very best. Yay.

It was stupid of me to try to finish it so quickly. The questions
are wide ranging and profound, so the answers must be too.

Not stupid. I get the anxiety and tendency to procrastinate.

But in this instance, I think the procrastination has gone in our favour. This summer has been wave after wave of own goals for the TRAs. Lots to say!

37 days left bump.

Bump,

I've done it. There were a lot of questions, so it took longer than I expected. I didn't answer in as much detail as I'd have liked because I got bored, but at least I did it. I used Fair Play for Women as guidance.

I am planning on starting this in October to capture as many live incidents as possible.

36 days left bump.

3 done, more to go. Help.your friends and family with theirs. It does take a long time so prepare a word doc to personalise for each case.

When I was helping my mother with hers, we looked at hospitals, care homes especially.

I'm just working on mine. I used to advise on the law and I construct surveys, but I'm finding it really hard going, they've not made it easy for people, I doubt that they are going to get responses from many people other than those of us who are really well informed / committed. I'm finding A Women's Place guidance most helpful.

35 days left bump. Keep beavering away!