I agree about there needs to be a right to ask for GRC as an immediate minimum. The ‘oh but the long and complex process weeds out chancers’ is a completely misleading false reassurance which fools the general public.
Every time this line is trotted out, everyone needs to point out the very important other part of that ‘certification process’ (like no other I have come across!) which is that even once you have been awarded it, nobody else can ever ask to see the GRC certificate!,
So that obliterates any reassurance we might have wanted to try to take from that process: The GRC process is meaningless in terms of providing assurance to women.
Nobody can assume anything about the motives of a man in the women’s toliets, however he presents, yet we are all being silenced into being unquestioning about his right to be there, because you know TWAW! And you can all DIAF TERFs!
Yet (I have slowly come to understand) GRA is a false reassurance anyway. Male pattern offending persists at the same rates after transition. So statistically, women girls and young children are much safer without any adult male- bodied person in their female toilets. The only harm reduction that we know works, is to keep men out of women’s spaces where women are vulnerable. Job done.
We should all be deeply suspicious of any lobby group that is trying to attack safeguarding norms of children and women- we should be asking why do they want do this? What’s in it for them? Why should anyone get a free pass? (Especially when we can’t even ask to see said free pass 
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Safeguarding applies to everyone and it is everyone’s responsibility to uphold. Otherwise there is no safeguarding.
It’s kind of like me boarding the bus I get to work saying that I identify as someone who’s paid for a ticket and i’m being discriminated against by being asked to show one. Then leaving it up to the driver to deal with me, or telling the enforcement team that they are mean and unkind, or threatening them with calling their employers to say they are prejudiced against me, or me just getting violent to them straight out for questioning me because you know, they offended me by asking to see my ticket! On a bus! The bastards!!.
(*none of these scenarios would work for me btw because you know, female socialisation and small female stature and lesser than male strength in my case but I hope my point is clear)
So It’s either continue to take universal precautions already evidenced to reduce risk and minimise harm.. or move to self ID and stop pretending we have any safeguarding.
Women and kids need to protect themselves somehow- no way I can see of doing this apart from literally staying at home- and now to add insult to injury we are transphobic, ‘sad TERFs’ or if we complain.
Keep your penis out of the Ladies’!
Btw This ^ lack of critical thinking and decision making taken by men is how come I and my female colleagues have to share normal unadapted women’s-labelled toilets (and a shower facility) with Male-bodied people at our workplace.
It’s up to us individually to complain about it and we don’t even dare speak to each other about it which is why I haven’t and how I know I will get accusations of bullying etc if I complain even if I am legally and morally right, because everyone has absorbed this message that TW=W.
(Instead of TW=TW. Which is absolutely fine but third space for intimate stuff is needed. Not OK to appropriate women’s spaces).
And Guess what, nobody uses the shower facilities at my work any longer.
If I was less busy I would go outside and find a cafe or pub toilet to piss in and desk with my periods during work hours but you know what, I don’t have time, it’s not fair on the cafe or pub and I shouldn’t fucking well have to do that.
I really can’t think how oppressive and awful for female fire fighters that is going to feel when they desperately need and want a shower after a long dangerous shift dealing with fires and smoke and bloody emergencies and then if they complain about sharing with male bodied people the female firefighters are in the wrong because TWAW! And fuck off and DIAF TERF!*
*I mean, the utterly sick sad irony of this decision by this committee of male-only firefighters. 
Sorry to go on so long, but this is all a bit close to home with the Pips Bunce awards for women at work shite and now this from the male firefighters.