Still can’t get the headline right.

Trans people who self-identify as women face single-sex space ban

Men. Men who self-identify as women. Not generic “people” but men: men only. Women don’t need to “self-identify as” women because we just are women. One’s sex isn’t a matter of self-identifying any more than one’s species is.

Organisations will be told that they can no longer call a space single-sex if they admit transgender people who do not have a gender recognition certificate.

Updated guidance from the equality watchdog will say that services described as being single-sex will not be able to make the claim if they also allow transgender women to use them on the basis of self-identification.

Sigh. Why the exception? What is the point? A certificate doesn’t and can’t change what sex a person is. Gender-recognition is meaningless.

A source said of the guidelines: “The upshot [of the guidance] means it’s not lawful to have a self-ID service. The fact is that if you let a man in, it’s no longer a single-sex service, and that includes trans people without GRCs [gender recognition certificates].”

But it also includes trans people with GRCs.

The change would prevent those who rely on self-ID from being able to access women-only care homes or domestic abuse refuges without an exceptional reason. Those with a GRC may still be allowed because that is the present position in law. However, this could change in a ruling due this week after a case in the Supreme Court, in which only those born female may be afforded sex-based rights.

Well let’s fucking hope so, seeing as how a certificate does not and cannot change a person’s sex.

For Women Scotland, the campaign group backed by JK Rowling, has argued that sex-based protections should only apply to those born biologically female. However, the Scottish government countered that the definition of a woman should include those with a GRC.

Because the Scottish government is pickled in reality-denying gender ideology.