Great thread! This is an excellent timing to be campaigning for sex to get the same status as other protected characteristics because there is a government backed legal review happening that could include this. A chance to change the law, at least as far as is relevant to hate crimes and the protected characteristic of sex, is coming up.
In mid- 2020, (presumably delayed by Covid-19 pandemic, no sign of it yet?) the Law Commission will be consulting with us the public, on whether protected characteristics relevant to hate crime should also include sex.
The Law Commissioners will then make recommendations to the relevant government department for law reform. Depending on what their report says, Civil servants will then prepare draft legislation for parliament to vote on to change the law.
The LC are very influential with the government so it is key for all of us to make our voices heard to them, also copying in our own MPs so they that know their constituents’ views on this. Our MPs will ultimately be the deciders on whether any changes are made to the current law on hate crimes when new draft legislation will be offered to them by the relevant government department after the Law Commission has made their report. You can add your name to the Law Commission’s mailing list to be kept in touch of progress, like getting an email to be told when the consultation starts.
www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/hate-crime/
Responding to these public consultations is really effective. Most of the government ones only give three months for the public to respond at the most, and they can ask quite detailed questions so it’s worth keeping an eye on what’s coming up.
Hopefully women’s groups are already planning their responses on this, which they often share during consultation periods so that we can use their points as a guide which can be helpful, though submitting your response written in your own words is very important, that is considered more weightily than copy paste emailing a sample letter, or just putting your name to a petition.
So that’s absolutely brilliant if Fawcett are doing something in this area, although I had thought that currently they didn’t define woman by biological sex.. instead I thought Fawcett believed womanhood is defined by gender feelings. 
I would be very happy to be proved wrong on that though.
That would be great if they believe in biological sex again.
Some ‘women’s’ groups are more politically consistent in their support of women (ie reality-based) than others 
so it will be interesting to see how Fawcett’s views come out on this issue.
However I don’t think it matters to much what they think. We may have to do all our own research thinking and legwork on developing consultation responses individually but FWR threads have been great at sharing thinking and debate in the past on other consultations and the substantive issues behind them.
The fact that supporting women’s rights - most especially if you’ve got the nerve to have been born an actual woman at the same time - seems to gather (baseless) accusations of ‘transphobia’ is a symptom of the highly misogynistic climate we are in. So these accusations and other sexist accusations and attempted diversions will continue whenever women try to campaign for their own rights, but these are self-serving ad hominems which avoid addressing or try to divert women away from the real point. Which is that women’s rights urgently need much greater legal protection.