"Sometimes, such opposition is based on the false premise that the current gender recognition process provides certain protections, such as preventing men behaving badly in women’s spaces which, in fact, it does not; this opposition rests, therefore, on a misguided belief that the proposed amendments will remove those supposed protections, thus creating a dangerous environment for women and undermining their rights."
Women's prisons, Peter. We don't currently put violent male sex offenders into women's prisons. I don't think the likes of Davina Ayrton should be put there.
"Opponents fail to recognise the distinction between sex and gender identity, which leads to a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be trans. Consequently, even highly intelligent commentators have published opinions that are not based on fact."
Neither do you, apparently, Peter. Gender is an oppressive system of sex-stereotypes imposed on me. It is not something I identify with, nor is it something, as a woman, I can identify out of. I can call myself John, but that isn't magically going to give me a pay rise.
"The journalist makes the common error of conflating sex appearance (male:female) with gender identity (boy:girl)"
Try that angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin distinction on a woman who had her genitals sliced off with a rusty razor as a girl (i.e. pre-pubescent biological female) because of her biological sex. Or better still, fuck off to the far side of fuck.
Going to take a break for a bit while my blood pressure goes down.