"This feels like a full on attack to break down the barriers that protect the more vulnerable people in our society".
Bingo. That is exactly it.
Male paedophiles getting transferred to women's prisons with mother and baby units. Already happened. It is prison policy to allow this in most cases if the offender self-identifies as a woman.
And this is without self-ID being law.
Meanwhile privileged movers and shakers like Penny Mordaunt and Justine from Mumsnet are getting together to blithely decide what the solution is. Despite not actually knowing anything about the issues and refusing to listen to women.
Neither of them I'm sure can imagine a dangerous or uncomfortable situation that they can't buy their way out of.
Don't want to share a women's hospital ward with men? Why, just book a private single room through BUPA instead.
Don't want your daughter to get changed in front of people with penises? Just transfer her to a private school where the admission criteria is that you must have a female birth certificate to attend. There. Sorted.
Meanwhile poorer women and poorer children are under assault. And religious women and children will withdraw from public life. Still, a small price to pay for progress.