Yet although gender-critical feminists are winning public opinion, major changes
often happen with no need for legislation, and in spite of the collapse of self-ID
arguments. Well before the GRR bill, the Scottish Prison Service’s policy on
trans inmates was already effectively gender self-ID. Semantics frequently
trump physical reality. In a particularly harrowing case that Baroness Nicholson
of Winterbourne raised in the Lords last year, staff at a hospital were accused of
obstructing police investigating an alleged rape on a single-sex ward, insisting,
despite CCTV evidence to the contrary, that the rape “could not have happened”
because the victim’s alleged attacker was trans and, according to the legal
definition, a rape can only be carried out by a physically intact man.
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