AS a holder of the GRC I AM officially, legally, fully classed as a "Female", as I am on m,y Birth Certificate" I am therefore entitled to be treated as a female in all respects, including receiving the State Pension at the female 'commencement age, not at 65-67 as for men.
It is illegal for anyone to exclude me from a female space unless it is for the reasons of any other woman being excluded. You are obsessed by toilets, but yes this includes discrimination on stopping me using the female ones of those.
Section 9(3) of the GRA says that terms and conditions apply. It says your GRC entitles you to be treated as female for all purposes subject to provision made by this Act or any other enactment or any subordinate legislation
Which means there are exceptions. Some are in the GRA itself (sports, inheritance, parenthood) and some are in the EA (single sex exceptions). There is ongoing legal discussion of exactly how much weight to give a GRC when deciding whether it is proportionate and justified to exclude a TW from female only space, however it is not illegal in theory to exclude you.
Karon Monaghan QC explained this very clearly when giving evidence to the Women & Equalities Committee a couple of weeks ago:
Q8 Chair: We will have a separate section on single-sex services. Jess is going to cover that a bit later on. Can I ask a particular question of Karon? Do trans women have the same rights as non-trans women?
Karon Monaghan: Yes they do. If they have a GRC they are entitled to be treated as a woman for all purposes, save that there are exemptions under the Equality Act, even in the case of trans women with a GRC. So even trans women with a GRC can be excluded from single-sex services—rape crisis centres and refuges being the paradigm example—because there are exemptions in relation to single-sex services. In addition, even in the case of trans women without a GRC, they have the right not to be discriminated against because of their gender reassignment status.
Q9 Chair: That is the current law?
Karon Monaghan: Yes. If there is a change so that self-identification becomes the route to a GRC and you do not need a diagnosis of dysphoria—whatever gender dysphoria is; it is highly contested, but you would not need two doctors to say and all that sort of stuff—you will not need to change the model of the Equality Act. A trans woman with a GRC will still enjoy protection against discrimination because she is a trans woman, and she will enjoy protection as a woman because she has a GRC, but she will still be subject to the exemptions in relation to single-sex services. Whether or not she has a GRC—this is why, to my mind, self-identification is not particularly relevant to this issue—she can still lawfully be excluded from single-sex services such as rape crisis centres and so on, subject to thresholds being reached. It cannot be an arbitrary refusal: “We’re calling this a single-sex space. You can’t come in.” It cannot be that. It has to reach a certain threshold of proportionality and so on.
Chair: Thank you very much. That is helpful.
Men's and women's pension age equalised last Thursday BTW.