It’s the job of politicians to appeal to things voters care about, that’s a good thing. It’s called democracy. Politicians particularly look for things voters care about at election times. That’s inevitable.
I’d rather have a party in power who are going to define sex in law as biological sex because they are motivated by what voters want, than a party like a Labour who have a principled position to effectively allow self ID at will by only requiring a GP, who has no expertise to make the difficult diagnostic decision that someone has gender identity disorder, to wave through a GRC.
As for single sex services are already ‘allowed’. It doesn’t matter if they are ‘allowed’ if services don’t proved them as they are scared of falling foul of the Equality Act, and a Labour government has signalled that a piece of paper makes men into women and has effectively made it ‘on demand’ for them to legally change sex, thus signaling to all publicly funded services that Labour is totally on board with men literally being women.
I find it really dispiriting that some are arguing against RS doing a good thing here as women are already ( technically) ‘allowed’ single sex spaces when we are in a wider, deeper culture that says we are NOT ‘allowed’ this. And it’s that wider culture that has led to the disappearance of so much single sex provision.
How have we got to the point where we think we have won because we are ‘allowed’ something, which is practice hardly even exists anymore, when that thing used to be our right, not our ‘allowance’.
I just despair.