This is one of the sections that gives cause for really deep concern:
132. Significant concerns have been raised with us regarding the provisions of the Equality Act concerned with separate-sex and single-sex services and the genuine occupational requirement as these relate to trans people. These are sensitive areas, where there does need to be some limited ability to exercise discretion, if this is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. However, we are not persuaded that this discretion should apply where a trans person has been recognised as of their acquired gender “for all legal purposes” under the Gender Recognition Act. In many instances this is unlikely, in any case, to meet the proportionate test. We recommend that the Equality Act be amended so that the occupational requirements provision and / or the single-sex / separate services provision shall not apply in relation to discrimination against a person whose acquired gender has been recognised under the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
So they're saying that while there could still be some exclusion of trans people wrt to single sex and separate sex services/employment, this would NOT be the case for people with a GRC.
And at the same time, from earlier in the same report, as has already been quoted on here:
45. Within the current Parliament, the Government must bring forward proposals to update the Gender Recognition Act, in line with the principles of gender self-declaration that have been developed in other jurisdictions. In place of the present medicalised, quasi-judicial application process, an administrative process must be developed, centred on the wishes of the individual applicant, rather than on intensive analysis by doctors and lawyers.
Getting a GRC will be a simple, administrative process of self declaration. So at a stroke it is possible for anyone who wishes, apparently, to become legally female, and then to gain access to any single/separated sex services/resources whatsoever.
This to me is male violence against women.
This is taking away the right of female bodied people to assemble, to support each other, to prioritise each other, without the presence of male bodied people. It only "works" if you subscribe to the ideology that a transwoman is a woman, is female, which I subscribe to about as much as I subscribe to Scientology.
In fact I often feel that I have woken up to find myself in a world where a cult (like Scientology) has taken hold and become the established norm in all those circles which were previously campaigning against dangerous, irrational cults and the harm they do to people; a world where suddenly those who won't conform to bigoted, oppressive stereotypes are the new bigots and those who seek to impose them are the face of "equality".
What are we going to call ourselves to differentiate ourselves from male bodied people who "identity as female" and are therefore legally recognised as women, now they've stolen our identity and our right to self-identify along with everything else? XX beings? The class formerly known as women? Triple orificed people?
Hm. TOPs. Has a nice ring to it.