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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Despite how it sounds, this law change isn't actually stating that trans women are men - it's saying that women only means women on matters relating to the Equality Act.

Things like woman-only shortlists, they won't be required to allow trans women in.

Correct it's only stating that there must be a clear legal distinction between biological sex at birth and gender identity and that sex-based protections apply to biological sex. There already are (and may be more) protections for trans people separate to that. The legal distinction is hugely important for various reasons... and does not say "transwomen are men". Just that they're not biologically women. They're transwomen.

Like I said on the previous page though, OF COURSE the "anti-woke warriors" will also want to frame all of this as a victory "against the libs". As I always say, women have good reason to celebrate this, but don't forget that a huge number of the men celebrating it as not the friends or allies of women. They don't care about you, and many of them hold women in outright contempt, they're just using this issue because it fits another agenda. Messy stuff.