There are a whole lot of The 8thers who are rabbid TWAW but not so much TMAM, when it comes to a woman's right to choose.
The 2018 abortion law is single sex,
2. “woman” means a female person of any age.
as in for women and girls only.
By then about 100ish women would have opted with the 2015 GRA
18. (1) Where a gender recognition certificate is issued to a person the person’s gender shall from the date of that issue become for all purposes the preferred gender so that if the preferred gender is the male gender the person’s sex becomes that of a man, [so a male not a female person of any age] and if it is the female gender the person’s sex becomes that of a woman.
not to be recognised as legal women.
[*My bold and edit, & note this is the single place where "female" words are placed before "male" words, the protocol is "he" then "she"]
It's a catch22 as the Courts has to either pretend that men get pregnant so the 2018 legislation should read as "woman” means a female or male person of any age or the 2015 legislation did not actually change the GRC holders legal status.
The current offical legal opinion (supporting 3 GRC males housed in the Womens Prison) is that the 2015 legislation also removes all and any pregnancy and pregnancy related protections from the any of the 300ish women who were given GRC.
So working women loose sex specific legislation protecting them from discrimination.
A lot appear to be anti-womens rights / pro-people with needs and body parts because otherwise it requites women to say
we are not men;
we, women spend, 10%ish of our lives as sexually immature female humans, 45%ish of our lives with the reproductive ability to get pregnant and 45%ish post reproductive stage, but 100% as female ;
we, women are still discriminated against on the basis of womens capacity to have babies;
we still suffer economic harm by having babies and looking after them;
we grew up in a society with
single mother's and invisible father's,
a history of Mother and Baby Homes which the Governemnt chose to hide, and
the double standard of Studs shagging Sluts,
we know that that mindset is still there.
Did you note the politicians / Government championing the constitutional review group talking about removing a mothers constitutional recognition and protection? Rather handy if that was removed rather than recognise the Mother and Baby was a State violation of Mother contribution to the "common good", and the child's right to a Family.
Or that the legislation which provides a mother with post birth recovery time and care of the her child should be reduced and used by the father, rather than recognise his separate parental leave? That ignores that Maternity rights will continue to be a conflict in the workplace as that leave has to be excluded when making pay and promotion decisions and men loose out.