This is the reply from my MP who confirmed they’d received the book.
‘I am fully committed to achieving equality across all aspects of our society, including for the LGBT community and transgender people. I want every individual, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity to have the confidence and the freedom to be themselves.
The Government Equalities Office have, over recent years, looked carefully and thoroughly into the gender recognition process, including considering potential changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004. After careful consideration, it is their view that this existing legislation strikes the right balance between ensuring there are proper checks and balances in the system and ensuring there is support in place for people who want to change their legal sex. This is a position I support.’
They also replied that their surgeries are reserved for ‘urgent casework’ as they have a backlog, I’d offered to go in and meet them to have a quick chat about the issues. Fair enough.
So I agree with their first para (who wouldn’t) but in the second paragraph, this is the kicking the GRA reform into the long grass with no commitment never to bring in selfID that worries me. I should probably be grateful that they’re not encouraging self ID reform but all the same it’s really disappointing given everything there’s been in the media lately about this debate and the issues it is causing for women. 
I think that retaining the GRA is partly what’s keeping us on the back foot on that. Paragraph 1 is achievable without allowing people to legally change sex. We’ve proven ourselves not to be a mature enough society to introduce GRA changes in a joined up way without severe impacts on other protected characteristics (women and lesbian and gay people, with a knock-on effect for children in encouraging a climate of affirmation-only approaches to children in distress).
It would be responsible and much better to admit that changing legal sex has been a failure and get rid of the GRA and mend or build a legislative framework that works for everyone of both sexes and whatever their feelings (or not) on gender so that the equality vision can actually be realised.