GwenEdinburgh when it comes to lawsuits, the gender-critical movement has a pretty terrifying record of success.
We have indeed. I think it helps that we try to operate within the law as it actually is, rather than the law as some groups eg Stonewall would like it to be.
The rise of the trans rights movement has been a very bleak and dispiriting time. Over a short space of time women found our spaces, our organisations, our identity, even the words that refer to us - things that we had fought for for centuries and believed we had secured for good - appropriated.
We also saw familiar things that we interacted with on a daily basis - the media, the medical profession, schools, youth organisations, political parties - adopt language and policies there were inimical to us.
Most distressingly from my point of view, as I am a very rational person, we saw science itself abandon fact for easily-disprovable opinions, like sex being a spectrum. And that version of 'science' was even taught in schools, so several cohorts of schoolchildren have been misinformed by the people who are supposed to educate them.
For some of us, possibly many of us, it seemed like the world had been turned upside down. A tiny percentage of the population had somehow gained so much power and influence that the rights of 50% of the population were sidelined, and we were dismissed as bigots, transphobes or dinosaurs when we objected. Those of us who objected too loudly were threatened with death or rape, and some of us were subjected to literal violence, as in literal violence.
There weren't many lights at the end of this dark tunnel of misogyny: this board was one, and the judicial system in the UK (or England and Wales, more accurately) was another.
The 'terrifying record of success' you refer to (possibly ironically) was a case-by-case acceptance by the courts that women exist as a social group defined by our biology, and that we have rights based on that identity, and that we have been deprived of those rights, in ways that, when exposed in court, often seem outlandishly groundless and unfair.
It was such a relief that at least one branch of the state saw what had happened to women's rights, and made rulings that have gone some of the way to tilting the world back to the horizontal.
The level of aggression and misogyny apparent in the backlash to the UKSC ruling on the definition of 'woman' shows that there are many more hurdles to face before we reach a balanced state - 'to women, our rights and no less; to transwomen, their rights and no more'.
The continuation of a society less balanced than that is terrifying to me.