What happens and what should we be doing after the GRA consultation closes?

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So obviously all the focus is on getting people to understand the implications of the GRA consultation, but what happens after it closes?

What should we be doing? Keeping up the contact and conversation with MPs and relevant organisations? Anything else?

I don't want the momentum to be lost after Friday...

I think we should put pressure on businesses and services that have ‘pre-empted’ the law, and do not apply the legal exceptions in the EA, to uphold female only spaces.

Oops I just posted at the same time, will see if I can delete

New here and have found it an absolute haven of common sense, I'm peak transing at least half a dozen times a day, so thank you all!

Thinking aloud, what can we do post 19th Oct?

We need to keep the pressure on:

• write to and visit MPs
• keep talking to friends and acquaintances
• speak to religious groups
• Contact women's facilities eg gyms and exercise classes (many of us won't want to use mixed sex facilities in future)
• review organisations to see who is breaking EA law, and contact eg schools, hospitals, brands, venues etc (any legal bods who can help identifying such orgs?)
• requests under the freedom of information act to establish who is in violation
• contacting companies who have employed stonewall etc to provide staff training to reinforce sex as a protected cgaracteristic
• boycott brands who fail to support women's rights, whatever firm that may take. There's already a twitter page for gender boycott, but not very active
• praise and support for brands who support women
• comment on news articles to raise awareness
• get busy on twitter, posting alternative view points eg on stories by pink news and amnesty
• complaints to media and other orgs for misrepresenting gc views, misinformation, lying

Can we do this and coordinate our efforts to maximum effect?

Yes, contact and pressure should be kept up. After all, MPs are political animals. They won't decide in a vacuum - once the consultation ends, they won't decide whether to go ahead with self-id based solely or even mainly on the responses to the consultation. They will be trying to work out what they have to gain or lose politically from proceeding. Mordaunt appears to believe that this is the equivalent of what gay rights used to be and that the Tories can take the opportunity to show they've changed.

Is campaigning for a repeal a no go? Personally I'd like the whole GRA scrapped. Trans people already have the same protections under the same laws as everyone else. I don't think people should be allowed to alter birth certs or any official documentation. We need to go back to basics, back to logic, back to common sense approach.

Another one new to this but after calling one MP and writing to another today I realise that keeping up the pressure on politicians, institutions and companies is something that must and can be done.

I'm not in the UK and the trans self-id hadn't reached these shores yet, thankfully, but if I was I would be requesting an appointment with the head of my children's school to find out exactly what their policies re self-id in children are, what training/information they have received and so on. Local swimming pool too.

As an occasional user, I will be contacting the YHA to ask them to review their policy of admitting men into women's dormitories, even though these days with children we take a family room.

If we can all do something, even if it is just continuing to raise awareness, it's far better than doing nothing.

That's really useful Materialist, thanks.

I predict we'll see some quite rapid policy changes when they realize the risks!