I don't think it's his fault that Stonewall was captured after his departure but, yes, it does look like he is trolling. It's the same disingenuous BS we saw in the Labour manifesto and from Maria Miller and Penny Mordaunt. They all support single-sex spaces (but anyone can be a woman and identify into women's spaces).
Funny how the Guardian is framing Isaac's departure as something to do with government agenda without even mentioning the controversy of his appointment!
www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/01/nicky-morgan-under-fire-for-choosing-city-lawyer-to-head-equality-body
"The education secretary, Nicky Morgan, has come under fire for choosing a City lawyer with an annual income of £500,000 to chair Britain’s leading equality and human rights body.
Two parliamentary committees have written to Morgan, who is also minister for women and equalities, to warn that there could be a conflict of interest if David Isaac was appointed to the role – because his legal firm carries out “significant work for the government”.
Appearing in front of MPs, Isaac admitted that his salary as an equity partner at law firm Pinsent Masons would “dwarf” the £50,000 he would collect as chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Harriet Harman, chair of parliament’s joint committee on human rights, said there was “obviously a conflict of interest” because the EHRC often took cases against the government.
“What you should be having for the EHRC is someone who is a champion for human rights … You have to be fearless against the vested interests. You’ve got to be an agent for change,” she said.
“The lion’s share of his income will be coming from an organisation that has a vested interest. As they say, ‘he who pays the piper calls the tune’.”
Harman said the issue was not about Isaac, who chaired the gay rights group from 2003 until 2012, but about a wider trend for the government to pick individuals with “illustrious careers in business, management, law” rather than proven campaigners.
She said she would prefer them to opt for people like Shami Chakrabarti, the former director of Liberty, or Sam Smethers, the chief executive of the Fawcett Society.
Isaac was put forward by a Whitehall selection panel and then chosen by Morgan, who asked Harman’s committee and the women and equalities committee, led by Conservative MP Maria Miller, to carry out a “scrutiny session” with him."
(Tragically we now know that neither of Harman's choices would have been any better from women's pov)