Please can we not go over again that the Single Sex Exemptions do allow you to exclude men AND men with a GRC that says "for all other purposes" they are female.
The main problem over this has been failure of groups who could implement it, implementing it and funders who try to pressurise groups not to use it, and those who have fallen for the Stonewall training lie about SSE including men with GRC.
In fact both the Scottish Parliament and pro trans groups have emphasised that this right to SSE still exist so why is everyone going on about the challenge to the EA.
However, I will admit (maybe because it does not impinge on me - blush) I had overlooked / not taken into account the lowering of the age in Scotland to 16 and how that might impact on schools.
So there are two parts to this, the existing failure of the SSE to work in practice because of attempts to infringe on women's rights, but now the impact of one group of people being able to get a GRC through self identity as from 16, and another group of people able to get a GRC at 18, but only after a longer process.
So as posted late last night the lack of equality in the UK as a whole is between those wanting GRCs. So does the Scottish GRR challenge the UK GRA.
Bur if anything comes out of this mess, let us at least get not just politicians, but the general public, funders and those running support groups such as the monstrous Survivors Network in Brighton not only acknowledge but implement the SSE. The EA even puts forward as an example of why women need single sex services is that a woman who has been raped would not be comfortable with a trans woman in a support group.
So whilst I think many politicians are using this issue for other reasons, we should remember that how this challenge even came up was because of how sucess the trans campaign has been, even to the extent that those who you would have thought would want to have and use SSE, chose not to. It is that public shift in attitude (away from women's sex based rights) that create the sense that this was not an issue.
Ideally all group involved in campaigning for women's sex based rights should maybe do a joint campaign just focusing on why women not just need but are entitled to them, not just for survivors of male violence, but schools, sports, prisons.