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You are right to be uneasy Pamela. There is a mine of info on Mumsnet FWR threads.
If self ID goes through it means that transwomen can legally change their sex (which is biologically impossible) and that will negate the sex based protections of the Equality Act 2010.
Beyond the obvious controversies about changing rooms, toilets etc. there are many far reaching problems. Here's just one for example. Crimes committed by transwomen - who offend at the same rate as natal men - will be recorded as being done by women.
In sport transwomen claim that their testosterone is low and therefore they have lost their advantage over women are rubbish. They still have all the advantages of height, weight, reach, lung oxygen volume, bone strength etc. that developed through puberty.
The 4,000% increase in girls applying to become boys is frightening and desperately needs research to understand why this is happening. Puberty blockers, male hormones mean they face infertility. Too bad if they change their minds....
It is so crazy you even have a male CEO of a FTSE company (Philip Bunce, who IDs as a woman some days winning an award as a woman). You have transwomen, undergoing no surgery or medical treatment (and that's at least 80% of transwomen) on all women short lists and winning places on schemes reserved for women.
I could go on. But anyone who wants a bigger picture go to Mumsnet FWR - pretty much the only place where you can debate, within limits, this issue. So much debate has been shut down by trans activists who threaten, insult and intimidate women (including bomb threats) who want to meet to discuss it - and threaten any venue that offers a meeting room. Leeds Council no less, was recently cowed into refusing a women's meeting. MPs freely admit they are scared to comment. How can that be? What the hell is going on?
The GRA consultation period is now closed. We can only keep debating and raising awareness.
Surely when people really understand that this means that there will be more Karen Whites in the future they will see how serious this is. (Karen White is a transwoman, who as a man, was a rapist. Got himself transferred to a women's prison by claiming he was trans, where he then proceeded to sexually assault four women). If that doesn't peak trans more of the population nothing will.