Sorry not time to read all comments and this may have already been said.
The article is really stupid and this focus on lesbians seems to be an angle various legal people who are leeching on this are going on about.
A lesbian is someone who is physically attracted to another biological woman.
The EA is about saying there are "legal" women for various purposes and actually women who are allowed under the SSE to only be biological women.
The court case is about the first category. That allowing trans women to be considered women (remember the case was about women on boards) are (as in sports) having the advantage of male privilege undermining actual women achieving equality.
The court is ruling on the law as written.
And they may say as the EHRC have said its badly written and a mess but yes it does create to types of women.
Whether or not it could be legally challenged I dont know.
But there is absolutely nothing to stop MPs whether bipartisan or majority party re-writing the law.
And it is a great shame that Kemi Badenoch never got to finish the work she started on this.
I fear that if the case in lost Labour will revert to what it always says never mind girls you've still got the SSE which we created specially for you.
And as a discussion on LGB Alliance facebook page pointed out, associations which are not legal entities can be women only (as proved by Bristol Student Feminist Group) so obviously lesbians can form associations.
I know I say this repeatedly the problem actually is that too many peopel have accepted that what Stonewall says is right.
The problem is the men who feel entitled to challenge women.
The problem is that not enought groups, and vast employers like the NHS bother to implement the SSE.
This article is a totally meander off the real issue.
Which is that as written the sex class of women are the only protected characteristic who have to allow those who aren't part of the that sex class to idenditify into it.
I think many wonder whether using the law would help resolve the problem with the EA and how allowing for the GRA has underminded sex based rights.
Nothing will stop entitle men from continuing to try and undermine women's rights.
What is needed is for the EA to be amended.
But I doubt Labour will ever do this.
And I doubt there are enough MPs who support sex based rights who would form a cross party group to achieve this.
The real problem is the law makers.
The opportunists are the men who are deliberately using the badly written EA to try and terrorise women.