After the consultation

[Goldenbuzzer]

Does anyone know what will happen after the GRA consultation closes? And what the timescales are?

Eg. Will a summary report be written about responses? Will it be discussed in parliament? Will a committee be set up?
If anyone in the know can explain the process it would be great to know...

Bumping... anyone?

I'm curious about this too and asked about it on another thread but I don't know if anyone replied as I find it hard to keep track of the fast-moving nature of the board.

The difficulty is that they tend to look at the volume of responses they receive and that determines how long an analysis/report will take. Then there's usually a report - but there might be further evidence gathering.

It's not always a clear-cut process and there are rarely decent timetables.

Effectively, there is already a committee - the Maria Miller one that requested this consultation.

They've had a transgender consultation.

Now they need a women's consultation. And that needs to be exhaustive, consulting the views of ordinary women, HCPs, prison staff, police, women in religion, women in sports etc.

They also need a men's consultation.

Also is anything planned for the day? I will be at work sadly but some sort of demonstration, maybe outside Houses of Parliament is surely called for?

For me the next election will be a single issue vote. Whichever party comes out and backs the protection of single sex spaces gets my support.

Funnily enough I was thinking the same thing this morning and had a little hunt around. I found this

www.policyresearch.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21&Itemid=17

I haven't had time to check out the organisation but it seems like a good guide. Looks like it could be quite a long process.

Although skimming the guide again I realise I don't actually know the 'status' of this consultation (as it's an amendment to current law?) and how that effects things.

Also Penny Mordaunt's comment that the starting point of the consultation was that transwomen are women must be investigated.

That exposes the entire consultation as a sham from the very start.

Popchyk

Yes. It's not a Consultation. It starts with the premise that it needs to become easier to obtain the GRC. That obtaining the GRC is onerous. Women were never asked about the GRA in the first place.

And i said that in my response

No idea what the government plans to do but I will continue to put stickers up everywhere I go, talk to as many people as I can, email companies I use to ask about their policies/challenge their wording on forms etc, vote with my feet (and my purse) in relation to companies whose "values don't align with mine".
If the law changes I will no doubt end up on the wrong side of it. I suspect I will be in good company with many other women. Hopefully I won't end up in prison with a sex offender with a penis.