In case you don't feel you have been gaslit enough - here is the submission from the Diversity Trust to the GRA enquiry. DT is the org run by Cheryl Morgan who wrote the Bristol NHS guidance.
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/16958/pdf/
I just can't bear this WE TRAINED THE WOMEN-ONLY GROUPS THEY ARE VERY HAPPY rictus grin assurance set next to the submissions from women who are genuinely begging and pleading not to be subjected to this.
''The Diversity Trust is a Community Interest Company working to achieve a fairer and safer society.We provide trans awareness training to a wide variety of clients across all sectors, includingorganisations that provide women-only services. We work closely with trans communities in theSouth and West of England, including running LGBT+ youth and adult support groups. Our work is grounded in the principles of the Equality Act.''
''There has been a lot of discussion, particularly in the media, of “sex-based rights”. The assumption appears to be that everyone has an innate and unchangeable “biological sex”, that this is the basis of the Protected Characteristic of Sex, and that rights of people with a “biological sex” of female automatically take priority over those of people with the Protected Characteristic of Gender Reassignment''
Perhaps the following suggests bridges are burning with the NHS?
''We note that the 2016 Transgender Equality Report was particularly critical of the NHS as failing in its duty of care towards trans people. We have done a considerable amount of training for NHS staff in the intervening years, and are happy to report that the vast majority of NHS employees we have met are very supportive of trans people and keen to help as best they can. Efforts at trans inclusion often meet resistance at senior level, with NHS managers impeded by changes of policy, and by fear of negative media attention should any trans-supportive policies be made public.''
God forbid the public get to read policies on how they are treated in medical settings. God forbid senior management actually listen to women. Don't forget this org got PAID to write the dodgy NHS guidance...not exactly the way to secure future gigs. Oh wait it is in this game, where the institutions always just need that bit more training...
A detail jumped out that really illustrates how these orgs work.
In the official submission to govt enquiry they write:
''A key part of the gender transition process is the so-called “Real Life Test”. Trans people under thevcare of a gender clinic are not allowed to proceed to surgery, or to change their legal gender, until they have shown that they can live successfully in their acquired gender for a set period of time. To undertake this test, they must have ID that matches their acquired gender. Both passports and driving licences, if they exist, must therefore be changed at the start of the transition process. This is done routinely, and typically only requires a simple letter from a doctor.''
So in black and white they show that they are fully aware that you can a) apply for GRC b) get surgery c) both by just changing the sex marker on your passport and driving licence. Crucially, no requirement to be in women-only spaces.
But on Twitter, the org's driector Cheryl Morgan says you have to use women-only spaces to pass the 'real-life test'. (note underlying assumption of MtF - never mind the transmen!)
archive.is/dBrkv
''There are all sorts of discussions to be had around that requirement, but it exists, and that means that trans women on the standard medical pathway must show they can access women-only spaces prior to being allowed surgery.''
So on social media and in their training they can spread the idea that 'trans people will be denied treatment' if males can't use the ladies, but if anyone calls them on it they can point to their govt submission and say 'oh no, we would never say that'.