So what happens now?
I dont trust Labour to renege on them saying they wont bring in self id in the near future.
But I think in the immediate future the EHRC will continue to be under attack, and that there will be mass responses to the consultation re future guidelines post Supremem Court ruling.
If it if anything like the consultation re self id some years ago now, the majority of responses will be pro trans rights. These were only disregarded as they seemed to much like copy and paste responses and so were disregarded. And although fewer from those supporting women's sex based rights, they were taken as reflecting attitudes.
(Sorry this is just to illustrates what the process could be, not trying to say this is about self id. The consultation that should have started today is on how to implement the Supreme Court ruling, ie not just toilets but every thing else.)
I think there will be high level briefings about how trans people are going to be discriminated against, so that even obvious guidelines re sex based rights will be portrayed as anti trans.
ie this consultation will be used to water down as much as possible the logical outcomes of the Supremem Court ruling.
And to try and make out that Baroness Falkner (Chair of EHRC) is not fit to carry out the consultation because she is biased (in favour of sex based rights). Prior to the Court ruling she had already recommended that the GRA be disapplied to the EA which is more radical than the Supreme Court ruling.