Thread by @lascapigliata8

This is a thread about my journey to oppose the initiative to "clarify" the Equality Act 2010 by adding "biological" in front of "sex":

When I first heard about this, circa October last year, my first thought was that it seemed like a good idea. I welcomed the initiative, signed the petition, promoted it, both on twitter and during interviews about my book 'Born in the Right Body'.

I had always been a #RepealTheGRA supporter, ever since I learned of the GRA2004 legislation. I read it, pondered on it extensively, analysed it and the Equality Act. I'm not a lawyer, but I am a doctor and I needed to understand why women have lost single sex provisions.

Soon the legal and institutional capture by gender identity ideology became clear, it's fiendish cleverness apparent. I summarised my findings in Chapter 19 of my book. It is astonishing just how well it was done and it has exposed fatal weaknesses in our safeguarding frameworks.

I was never under the illusion that repealing the GRA, which has legally compelled not just sex falsification but sex falsification trumping sex in all social, clinical and legal contexts, was going to be easy. But many other entrenched laws were repealed before, eg anti abortion

I vehemently disagreed with anyone who was trying to demoralise women by saying repeal campaign is pointless. To me, the harder the law is to repeal, the more urgent it is that we start campaigning for the repeal immediately. So I also signed Repeal the GRA petition.

Soon after, I started to see women criticising the proposed amendment to the EA2010 definition of sex. There were many excellent points, including that sex is already clearly defined by stating that woman is a female of any age and man a male of any age,

That by splitting sex - which has only one meaning ie. male and female - into different "sexes" some of which, like "legal sex" aren't sex at all, would have either deleterious unintended consequences, or fail to help women get back their sex-based rights.