I'd just like to repost this excellent summation of the dangers of self iD by @homefromthehills in this thread. It might help those unfamiliar with some of what is at stake.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3309112-Who-is-trans-re-GRA
The biggest single change that is coming is the most dangerous.
In 2004 the debate that created the GRA said specifically it was designed for transsexuals - not crossdressers or others. It was said most would have surgery and so did not make it mandatory but insisted on medical diagnoses that there would be reasons why surgery did not occur such as age or ill health. Most did, Around 60 - 70% I believe.
The doctors predicted that 5000 transsexuals existed and would be covered by the GRA. As of last week - 14 years on - 4990 have. Of which about 3000 are transwomen. The others are transmen.
The government is saying the GRA needs reform because it is not working for those for whom it was intended.
The above shows that is a complete lie. It is one of the best predictions of need and meeting of need in the history of usually useless government statistical predictions.
The entire push is from those who cannot get in for medical reasons and so want to shut off any medical assessment.
But - and here is the key - the GRC is not really the problem. The ability to change the birth certificate is. That was only agreed on the basis that medical assessment and diagnosis were involved and that doctors thought there was reason to why a medical condition might turn out to be the cause of transsexualism.
At present only 2000 - 3000 transwomen in the UK have altered birth certificates in that way.
Self ID not only will vastly increases that number it removes all argument of a medical reason to alter a birth certificate because doctors are no longer going to be involved in deciding the matter. People will be doing it themselves based on their perception.
Right now an altered birth certificate, pretence as it may be to many of you on here (which I do understand even though I have one), has a basis in medical evaluation and involves very modest numbers.
Those were the reasons it happened. I seriously doubt it would have done without the four figure number and medical involvement as backstops.
Half a million self declared legal women who have not gone near a doctor alters entirely the concept of the term women. It changes society in a huge way. We can all see that.
It is arguable that we transsexuals who used the GRA up to now did too. But if medical assessment is replaced by self declared feelings as cause to legally change sex there is no coming back from that. It is a revolution.
This is the battle that should be understood out there. Society in general should decide this. Not just trans people. Not just Feminists.
We need to ask the government why they are saying the GRA is not working when it clearly is given the 2004 debate. And how allowing people to declare their own sex on a birth certificate instead of the judgement of science and medicine as forever up to now is just a minor bureaucratic change.
If the country accepts it as that, fair enough. But I have a feeling most people do not know this is even a question being asked.