The @Commonswomequ have just published the submission by @TheLawSociety to their GRA enquiry:

committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…

They essentially want self-declaration on demand.

The claim the process is "overly complex", but Prof Whittle called claims such as this to be 'myths'...

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Also, @TheLawSociety don't seem to know about intersex and appear to think it has something to do with trans:

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They also seem utterly confused about what 'non-binary' means and seem to believe they are currently deprived of rights that others have and maybe even believe they represent some third sex or something and that 'genders' are legally recognised.

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None of this comes as any surprise given the nonsense I found they had on their equality monitoring form:



If @TheLawSociety can't get this right, what hope is there for others?

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But perhaps the legal minds at @TheLawSociety can answer the #StanilandQuestion for us?

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