Help me explain to DH

Has he read the Girlguiding UK policy? That very clearly states that no paperwork is required, as long as someone 'identifies as a woman or girl' they are welcome as a full member.

Just one example, but if GGUK sees it that way, other organisations will.

He is stuck on whether a person can just say they identify as a particular gender or if they have to fill in a form.

People can self declare their gender in some circumstances expect to be be treated as the opposite sex.
(see recent thread Mermaids Training for teachers for insight as to how this has come about)

April 2018 ManFriday demonstrated how easy it was to 'fill in a form' and obtain id with a changed sex marker in this a case driving licence:
manfridayuk.org/2018/04/20/self-id-and-driving-licences/

this thread has many resources and people new to the issues have found it useful:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3145470-Break-it-down-for-me

Ah, apologies.

This article has the detailed background to the situation.
It has a lot of evidence and is well researched

October 2018 'Sex, Gender & the NHS
Part 1: The “Single-Sex Hospital Wards” that have always been a lie'

medium.com/@anneharperwright/sex-gender-the-nhs-1e8f4e6363a6

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3396859-Weve-been-lied-to-about-Single-SEX-wards-since-2010

If youre in the Uk, buy the Telegraph. The article is on the front page.

This is the training that was given to health care professionals by Tara Hewitt.
'trans people and cancer'

Hospital trusts' policies are usually available online.
You would need to look at both the same-sex accomodation policy (wards showers, toilets ec) and also the the transgender policy.

Apologies - rapid typing has meant poor grammar.

I find it helps to come at it without even mentioning Transwomen.

But don't get us started on stonewalls Trans 'umbrella'. Tell your DH who is defined as Trans in this brave new and stunning world. Cross dressers, fetishists, autogynephiles. Tell him if your daughter was a lesbian, the. She's be ostracised by many of the woke LGBTQ community for not wanting to have sex with a lady penis. If your son is gay, then he has to include vaginas in his sexuality or be deemed as a bigot. Sex based definitions, biology etc are being erased.

We could go on and on.

Don't proove it. Dare him... dare him to do a woman wednesday.

Karen White doesn't have a GRC and apart from dressing in feminine clothes and wearing make-up, there's no other commitment to transitioning.

White was jailed for various crimes including violent rape and sexual assault in the male estate but began transitioning in jail. White attended various support groups and became aware of their 'rights'. White approached a case review board that considers the needs of transgender prisoners (prison governors, psychologists) and made their case for transfer.

White was transferred to a women's estate at the very first level (so no chance to examine offending reports and history, no consideration of reports made by those who'd met White and stated them as being "manipulative and controlling"). White went on to repeat his abusive, predatory pattern and raped 3 different women.

Despite being legally a man at the time, the Ministry of Justice decides to be ahead of the law and placed White's feelings above the safety of women.

Does having a GRC alter male pattern violence? Nope. But at least one would hope that applying for a GRC would 'oust' any man who's using the GRC for nefarious means.

Agencies across our civilised world are changing their Policies to be 'woke' and inclusive at the cost of basic safeguarding. Fact.

Self ID is a legal drive to do away with all aspects of GRC due process. It will be abused, it IS being abused and women are very very frightened. Your DH won't grasp this because he's a reasonable and decent man. But there are women for when time began who know the lengths that men will go to
to hunt their prey. Self ID is the green light for these predatory men.

NB - I've not mentioned Trans Women here have I... yet I would be deemed as transphobic for holding these views.

Legally a man according to the guardian and the prison policy is flexible because there is a risk of harm for transwoman offenders in a male prison. Which says it all!!

I was under the Impression that you can't ask for the paperwork because that outs them and being believed to be the opposite sex is the point of the paperwork to begin with.

When it affects men they will complain. I will be using mens facilities if the women's seem unsafe.

Tell your DH to look up the campaign #manfridays then he'll understand how ridiculous self ID is.

He, and the poster who agrees with him, are wrong. No "official paperwork" needed in most cases.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3475792-Telegraph-article-NHS-trans-row-as-men-get-access-to-womens-wards-if-they-identify-as-female

be sure to show him Alex Drummond - redefining the boundaries of what it means to be a woman here. Good of him.

I empathise with him - my other half's nearly 60 also and this has taken me AGES to shout through to/at him (sometimes through snot and tears). Nobody would really believe it!

But the problem we're really having is with the interpretation of the Equality Act - which many people interpret to mean that as soon as a person intends to change their gender they should be treated as their intended gender for all purposes other than where it can be shown to be a proportionate means of meeting a legitimate aim. The GRA provides the means to bulldoze through that but it's not happened yet and yet here we are - bulldozed through.