As it stands, via the grounding in the law, and by extension any guidance around it, manifesto promises etc, our sex based rights are still essentially hanging on whoever decides to grant them.
I agree. How else can you account for Karen White?
Imagine being a female prisoner, statistically likely to have already been subjected to domestic violence, and they put a fucking self confessed, utterly unrepentant, brick shit house rapist in your cell?
And this, to me, is why public opinion is crucial. They don't have to enforce women's rights, so we have to make them.
All the things - crowd funders, court cases, videos, protests, meetings, petitions, mumsnet - getting it in the papers, etc.
And this mealy mouthed, ambiguous, grudging concession by labour indicates it might just be working.