Galaxy
Yes as I have said it is a very poor misogynistic law. Telling people and in particular children that they are born in the wrong body is appalling and even the likes of Mermaids are now pretending they didnt use the term because its such an awful message.
This is my take on it.
The problem, as I see it, is that rather than society changing, individuals are buying into the gender norms and assuming that they have to 'be' a woman (or man) in order to 'act like' one.
As well as that there will be people who are genuinely misgendered, in that they will never be happy until they have transitioned. These people are rare, and have traditionally been the ones who have had issues with the ever-quoted lavatories and changing rooms. I think that most people would be sympathetic to their being able to use female ones, and their cause has been massively hijacked by the 'anyone can be a woman if they say they are a woman' thing.
As far as I am concerned, people should live their best lives however they choose, as long as their rights don't impinge on those of others. The minute someone with a beard, a penis and a dress wants to change next to me in a female changing room, that is impinging on my right to feel safe and comfortable. I have never been a prisoner, (and long may that continue!) but if I did find myself in jail, I would already be terrified, and knowing that I was sharing a cell with an untransitioned man would only add to that fear. Knowing that woman can also be violent would not reassure me, incidentally - it would make me feel so much worse!
Women have finally got some way towards equality in the workplace. Having men define as female but still get preference because they won't take maternity leave or have periods would erode that. Men on the right side of the 20% gender pay gap joining the female stats would skew those towards appearing fair. Men appearing in female crime stats because they identify as such will skew those so it looks as though women commit as many violent crimes as men and erode the perception that we need more protection. There will be numerous other ways in which women's hard-won rights are eroded - many of which nobody has thought of yet.
This is yet another example of the patriarchal system imposing its gendered perspective of the world onto women, without asking us whether we are happy with it. Men remain men, and women are 'everybody else'.