From the EHRC statement:
Gender’ refers to socially constructed roles of women and men and/or an individual’s conception of their identity. The term is often used interchangeably with ‘sex’, partly in recognition that much of the inequality between women and men is driven by underlying social and power structures rather than by biological sex.
This is where the problem lies - gender has, until the trans ideology juggernaut, always been understood to be a social construct, imposing gender stereotypes on both men & women, and often conflated for sex. The EHRC has expanded the definition of gender in terms of what we are now dealing with - social construct and/or an individual's concept of identity. What % on the general public would have the 1st clue that the question of gender, or use of gender as a word in place of sex, actually has this new expanded definition & that it has fuck all to do with sex? You'll notice that they don't also define sex i.e. adult human male or female.
This is exactly why the likes of Girl Guides have been able to lie by omission - pretending to be a single sex organisation, relying on parents to think they mean sex by saying they are single gender, when they know fine well they are talking about 'individual concept of identity' - which makes them mixed sex.
It's deliberate obfuscation & wilful erasing of the sex based rights women fought for. From the fucking EHRC. No where in that statement is any addressing of women's rights, the impact of this new definition of gender on the single sex protections that women - at the time of the legislation being passed - overwhelmingly supported single sex based services and provisions. Because at the time the EA2010 came in, there was still the Women's National Commission who sought the views of women's groups & service providers.
This is an exert from their report on single sex services
The value of women-only services becomes clear when reading through the comments of the women who took the time to complete our survey:
• 99% of the respondents believe that it is important for a woman who has been sexually assaulted or has experienced any other form of violence to have the choice to access a women-only support service.
• 79% of women said that there is still a need for independent women’s organisations even if mixed organisations and statutory bodies also provide single-sex services.
If even the EHRC will not adequately ensure that the single sex based rights & protections are not upheld (funding to these services forces inclusive policies for trans identified individuals, instead of funding separate specialist services) then it comes down to women, again, having to fight for this to be enforced, strengthened, and locked tight to prevent endless attacks as has been clear from the minute the EA2010 came in.
If you watch the Anne Sinnott interview with Venice Allen, she's confirmed that Sarah Brown brought her 'trans people cannot be excluded from the councils single sex services' amendment, 10 days after the EA2010 came into force. The fact that so many councils & businesses have followed this by replacing sex with gender shows how relentless this stealth lobbying has been going on - the sex based exemptions were not wanted by the trans lobby & they never gave up once the EA2010 was enacted.