Or, to look at it from the other side of the coin:
The rights of the entire female population of the UK - 33 million - to be
- recognised in law as biologically female
- acknowledged as fundamentally, permanently and irrevocably different from males
- afforded the right to spaces in the absence of all males
- acknowledged as the biological group for which all such rights were designated
those rights - the entirety of ALL rights for ALL females- now reside in a tiny little exemption clause buried within a piece of legislation called the Equality Act 2010 which must be
a. invoked on a case by case basis (and yet currently is not)
b. justified to men in each of those cases.
That clause, that little exemption that says FEMALES have rights that apply to us and to us alone, is the ONLY part of the law where our actual rights remain.
The rest of our laws that reference 'women' that we assume apply to females, don't. They apply to anyone male or female who claims the word woman. Whether the process for men to claim they are women is onerous or not, is just housekeeping. Rights referencing 'women' thus are not female rights at all. They recognise nothing, they protect nothing. They are worthless and meaningless. That's the sleight of hand that comes from altering the meaning of words that we absent-mindedly wrote into law without a proper definition, because we never imagined that there ever could be any such perversion of their obvious meaning. You write a law for females, you use the word woman, but then you make it so that men can become women. And presto. There is now no such thing as a female, no recognition of them nor rights for them as a group.
That 'exemption clause' is the only place of recognition of and rights for females remaining anywhere.
It is the only part of all of our laws that allows us to distinguish ourselves from the opposite sex. And we are hardly allowed to use it.
So I'm not feeling especially secure right now, even with that lovely governmental reassurance , when they say that there's a tiny part of the law remaining that is literally an EXCEPTION to the rule of men getting to overrule me about who I am and who I am allowed to be.
Our rights have already gone. The exemption is a relic that need not be abolished formally, because in practise it is nigh on impossible to invoke it successfully.
We barely exist now so far as the law is concerned.