It's so abundantly clear now that for a large segment of the population women just don't count. I'm baffled by how we got here but I have to assume that over the last few years, especially since the GRA was passed, a few activists have managed to get access to politicians and their advisers and persuaded them that now it's legally possible to change gender then obviously 'women' now includes the tiny little group of transwomen. Politicians have said yes, implying that either they are hard of thinking, or they just don't see women's rights as important enough to spend time considering.
Imagine an equivalent campaign with reference to other protected characteristics.
'Minister, could I just point out that there is increasing public awareness of the brave and oppressed group who were assigned healthy at birth, but have known since they were very young that they were a disabled person trapped in a healthy person's body. Can you confirm that the definition of disability will move away from the medical model and that self-affirmation will be accepted? This means, of course, that all protections and benefits currently limited to people with disabilities must be offered to this self-IDing group as well. The Paralympics ...'
You get the idea. See Rachel Dolezal for attempts to self-identify as black based purely on really, really wanting to be black.
There would be outrage, and rightly so. But no outrage when people who by all objective measures are clearly male or female decide to identify as belonging to the opposite sex, not even when it's abundantly clear that it's part of a sexual fetish or arises out of complex trauma and mental health problems.
How, just how?