"Ytho Perhaps I should bow out now. I'm saddened that anyone would consider sacrificing NHS, education etc over this issue. Even with self Id, if it was pushed through, I believe those things would still help women and girls."
No they wouldn't.
Girls and women would be forced to share hospital wards with men with autogynephilia who have massive stores of rage towards females because they suspect the truth: that we don't believe that they are women, however much we obediently chant the mantra "transwomen are women". Look at how India Willoughby expressed that rage in the CBB house, at the bottom of it is the knowledge that no-one really believes what they are pretending to and no amount of compliance can ever be enough. Such men would be on "same sex" wards with vulnerable, ill women.
We would be forced to endure being examined by "women" nurses with five o'clock shadow. When we asked for a chaperone when undergoing an intimate examination with a male doctor, another male in a dress would be presented to us as a suitable chaperone; when we are in our eighties and unable to walk or dress ourselves, a male with a boner might be washing us and changing our clothes and if we noticed and complained, we'd be accused of being outdated transphobic dinosaurs.
Our girls would be taught that if they don't like pink and dolls, they need to be rushed off to a clinic for mastectomies and our boys would be taught that they need to be castrated if they do like pink and dolls, because they are trapped in the wrong bodies. The children who would have grown up healthy gay adults, will be put on a road of lifelong medicalisation and gender confusion. If we express our horror at our children and grandchildren's mutilation, they will be taken into care because we are clearly emotionally abusing them by not supporting the idea that they must really be the opposite sex because they don't conform to sexist stereotypes.
All this would be taught in our schools. The biology GCSE will need to be adapted to fit this shit.
We will never be able to use a gym or swimming changing room again without the certainty that someone who may be perving on us, may be present. We will never be able to go to a restaurant or cafe or museum or school loo, without knowing that there may be a man in the next cubicle. Some of those men will be sitting there wanking because they get off on the sound of women peeing. Yes, there is nothing in life that a man in our sick society can't make a sexual fetish out of.
Don't tell me this is hysterical anti-man nonsense. It's already happening and self-ID can only escalate it.
Don't tell me this is a single issue. It's the biggest attack on women's rights in my lifetime and I've lived on Earth for half a century. This will affect every single aspect of how we live our lives. And yes, the weakest, the most vulnerable, the ones who don't have a cushion of money to protect them, will suffer most. All the time being told we live in glorious inclusive society. That's what a vote for Labour at the current time means. It's too dangerous.
And yes, I recognise that Tories are dangerous too. But it is absolutely mistaken to believe that Labour will rescue us. They won't they hold us in complete contempt. Lily Madigan is the living proof, of what Labour think of women.