Pratchet I agree with you too, the bigger picture sounds all too plausible and bloody scary. Was just not trying to claim to know about it, i’m still just getting my head around this area.
But even in the relatively short time that I’ve been reading about it, it seems that UK political ignorance and naivety and misogyny seem to have really raised the temperature by giving some misogynist extremists a cover of what they can point to as apparent Parliamentary and government AND political party support. That is catnip for those with a dogmatic belief in their just cause (justifying violence in some cases
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the actual reality seems to be that the government is perhaps starting to twig some of the scary implications of legalising gender self ID, or perhaps more likely just does not want to have the debate because they can see how it’s playing out and don’t want to go anywhere near it.
This seems to be making things worse for women though, even without the government starting the promised review of what would be a terrible new legal measure. 
The extremist misogynists seem to be going at softer targets to silence them, raging at individual gender critical women and trans people, and the venues, including MN who allow them to gather and talk. I agree it exactly what you say, that they feel critical talking literally cannot be borne.
It’s like they are turning on the canaries who’ve just come up from the mineshaft, or something. But seriously, how do they think a review of law would work, if not a critical examination? Would non aligned voices not be allowed to respond? (Unless they run it like that terrible example from the Scottish government).
Again I think the WEC report and cheery response from Nicky Morgan have been very unhelpful because they didn’t really apply any genuinely critical thought about wider impacts and they really made it look like they were likely to proceed without doing that.