Boris may have actually listened to both women and transsexuals - the latter having said that this idea of self ID is destroying the trust built into the Gender Recognition Act by having psychiatric assessment to protect evidence of their sincerity.
If you basically open it up to anyone with no restraint abuse is unguarded and it is clear where some of those wanting to be enfranchised are coming from. A three letter word.
Some of these criticisms from transsexuals were in the English report on GRA reforms last year and self ID in England was being reassessed. So both that and the more than obvious and genuine concerns of women might have finally woken a few up to the game being played.
Hopefully the period of waiting and the need for medical assessment will also remain in England. The recent session on reforms seemed to affirm no itention to change this.
I get the impression he has had his eyes opened given the understandable anger of many women and the open hostility of some of those who did follow the rules properly to access the GRA who said he was trivialising their efforts.
And recent events that show clear overstretching in areas like sport whch transsexuals also warned would happen and called out on line too will not have harmed the concerns about taking steps too far.
Transsexuals told MPs to check Hansard and see there remain almost the same small number of holders that doctors told parliament would qualify for a GRC in 2004.
A fact most media have missed but might have rung an alarm bell to a politician. As if you are only going to access a law after all the rules are removed that might infer the wannabees are a bit worried about what that gatekeeping of those rules might uncover.