Very good to see @EHRC do not support #sexselfID as part of GRA reform.

But removal of the spousal exit clause to allow wives to annul their marriage before their husband becomes legally female should not happen without consultation with the women this could impact. https://twitter.com/EHRC/status/1283695662316560386

The @EHRC is wrong however in it's claim that "There is no reason why simplifying the process for obtaining a GRC should have an effect on these protected [single sex] spaces and services". /2 https://fairplayforwomen.com/fws_speech/ 

When a transwoman gets a GRC they don't just become legally female. They get a birth certificate saying they were BORN female. Plus it becomes a criminal offence for an official to ever reveal their true birth sex. This effectively erases their trans history. /3

This means transwomen with a GRC actually become non-trans women. They disappear from trans statistics in prisons. Every single piece of ID says they are a natal female.

So how can service providers implement the lawful single-sex exemptions? /4

On paper service providers will still be able to lawfully exclude transwomen from female only spaces - but if it is no longer possible to know who is trans then these exceptions are unworkable on the ground. /5

What's the point of laws on paper if they can never be used? The @EHRC should know this.

It's really not good enough to wave away the complexities of the interaction of the GRA2004 and EA2010 and pretend they don't exist. /end