Going back to the passing of the GRA, and whether some of us were asleep at the wheel.
I think what nobody calculated (unless you were directly involved with them!) how what seemed to be an act to help a very few people to be able to legally marry as man and wife, would be come the trojan horse for gender identity.
Of those who did think about they probably thought that once same sex marriages were allowed the GRA would become an irrelevancing.
Meanwhile over at Stonewall HQ, in search of expanding their remit, as although there was / is still homophobia many legal rights had been gained.
And when you add into this that what was once Gay Liberation had become Pride, heavily influenced by queer politics (which aren't in any way as "binary" as people of the same sex being sexually attracted), the simple be kind so that a man with a GRC could marry another man, took off into the ever expanding world of self identity.
And one of the biggest (if only opposition to this ideology) were radical feminists, who continued to believe that women are oppressed on the basis of their sex. For Stonewall and hangers on to accept that, would be to accept that you cant change sex and you cant identify into a sex.
Why else has the whole TRA campaign been so misogynistic? They could have bumbled along and become a cultural movement, in the same was as Gender Benders from the 70s, when men wearing make up and dresses didn't mean anything other than breaking done gender roles.
If you dont think like those who saw the GRA as an opening into something completely different why would you think it might happen.
And I dont think it surprising that many only became aware of it as an issue when there was the consultation on reforming the GRA.
To read the proposals had to make you stop and think.
If only we were all blessed with being able to see the unintended consequences of what on face value seem like a small deal.