Thread by @lascapigliata8

Women asking orgs and individuals whether they support #RepealTheGRA isn't a purity test (like some people engaged in purity spirals for years now claim). It's a good faith question so that we can:
1. Start the conversation
2. Decide who to support with our money and resources

There are many myths around repealling the GRA that are generated by people who don't want it repealed, including that "repealling would mean leaving EHCR". This is untrue. There are 46 countries in EHCR and not all of them have GRA-type laws.

GRA2004 is obsolete now. It was brought in when same-sex marriage was illegal, to allow "transsexuals" to marry same sex partners. Same sex marriage is now legal. Equality Act 2010 protects people who underwent, or plan to undergo gender reassignment, from discrimination.

GRA2004 simply allows for sex falsification now, which gives one group of citizens far more rights than anyone else - this is used to override sex discrimination against women and girls, and other types of discrimination too. Rights of people with disabilities who want

Same sex carers, or autistic people who can't manage to use wrong-sex pronouns, are negatively affected. Pregnant and breastfeeding mothers are dehumanised using terms like "birthing body" "chest feeder "and "gestating parent" because of the GRA and imperative to falsify/deny sex

Rights of the elderly and the religious to reject members of the opposite sex in their same-sex spaces are removed due to the entitlements to sex-falsification that the GRA confers on a select cohort of people.

Falsifying sex is no different than falsifying age, height, weight. We aren't making new laws allowing people to force institutions to specify their desired numbers on a scale or the number of years they've been alive. Sex is an immutable characteristic.

Sex matters in all spheres of life. Falsification of sex has led to destruction of:
female single-sex spaces
female sport
female toilets/changing room
female-only prisons
female-only accommodation such as hospital wards, DV and rape shelters
clear language on female health

Entitlements under the GRA have already seen autistic people arrested and convicted because they couldn't validate sex-falsification in others.
Same entitlements have seen women arrested and bothered by the police, they've enabled violent thugs to justify their attacks on women

GRA entitlements and sex-falsification have compromised child safeguarding in many ways. It allowed boys and men into Girlguiding. It reframed an industry of iatrogenic harm inherent in feminising boys and masculinising girls, as a "human right". It captured all our institutions

Including the NHS, who no longer collect data on patient's sex. None of the above harms can be reversed as long as the sex falsification law remains in place.
Therefore it is imperative that we have this conversation, and to know which orgs are willing to work on #RepealTheGRA

ADD: I would also propose that "gender reassignment" be incorporated into PC of "Religion or belief". Sex can't be changed and mostly people can recognise true biological sex of others (regardless of modifications) therefore a belief one is "born in the wrong body" or "should… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Whatever solution is negotiated, clear definition of sex as biological sex will clarify that whatever PC applies to people who "underwent or propose to undergo gender reassignment", it only applies to discrimination *within* their own sex class. So for example, a biological… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Likewise, in the absence of GRA and with clear definition of sex in EA, it would not be possible to argue that denying biological males who "identify as women" access to female-only spaces/services is "discrimination on the basis of GR".