I can’t mention the GRA without saying that I think the GRA should be repealed- it’s superfluous now because (rightly!) we have same sex marriage and equal pension age.
It’s also not the state’s role to issue validation for validation’s sake in the way GRA now does. (because unless I have misunderstood greatly, holding a GRC is no longer correcting any individual injustice around marriage and pensions etc, it is now just ‘correcting’ reality.)
The fundamental principles of the GRA are sexist and homophobic and misogynistic because they rely on privileging sexist stereotypes of femininity and masculinity over biological sex, and the GRC process itself was poorly and naively drafted because it contained those sorts of assumptions.
So for example GRC process lacks the basic features of an official status that is granted if people meet specific criteria. For example it has no revocation process because the GRC holder has changed their mind- so it fails basic rules on consent in how it traps people within an official record of legal sex even after they detransition.
And GRA requires meaningless things like that GRC holders must live in that gender until death, but provides no revocation process if people don’t actually do that, so it’s not really any kind of requirement at all.
GRCs and the secrecy and criminal punishment around asking who has the GRC all cause a chilling effect around the GRC itself. All that props up self ID and problems with male access to women’s places and spaces. The existing exceptions in the EQA to the GRC’s relevance are unclear and very hard to get enforced.
There are loads of other problems with it. It’s a big, outdated mess. Let’s do away with the GRA and just let people live how they want under their EQA protections. Our laws should recognise that society does need to place value on biological sex- especially to support the interests of women and children.