In the UK, only transwomen who have a Gender Recognition Certificate are legally considered to be women.
This is a really important point, that sapphos appears to be skirting over.
When the GRA 2004 came in - and it was snuck in through the back door - and I quote - "we managed to get the whole thing through without anyone throwing a fit in the press" - which speaks volumes in itself. NONE of us knew about this. Except maybe Julie Bindel, and a v few others.
I seem to remember in 2004 I was pregnant, and then giving birth to a baby. This massively important change in the law all happened on the quiet.
When the GRA came in it was sold as "a help to a very tiny group of people diagnosed with severe gender dysphoria, to help them live their lives" - it was estimated that around 5000 adults would be granted a GRC.
Now - 15 yrs on - around 5000 people have a GRC. So the Law seemed to have served it's purpose.
But suddenly - it's not enough - that number is being touted as a failure of the Act. "Only 5000 people have managed to get a GRC", the TRAs say. "We must be able to self-identify" they say. With no thought or care on the impact to women - that any male being able to be legally recognised as female might be a bit of a problem.
Women are gaslighted. Women are told their fear of biological males, with penises, in spaces where they are vulnerable, or in a state of undress, is groundless. Paris Lees compared it to a "fear of escalators."
Women are accused of being as bad as white Americans who wanted white segregation prior the civil rights movement in the US in the 60s - as though women who want to preserve single sex spaces for all females - regardless of colour/religion/sexuality - but just based on the good old basis of biological sex - are "as bad as racists" - despite biological sex being a legally protected characteristic in the UK.
It's just a disgrace. I would call on ALL women to stand up and speak out on this abusive gaslighting over our rights in law.