RUTH HUNT'S RADIO 4 PORKY - AN EXPLANATION
Yesterday, on @BBCRadio4 @BBCPM, Ruth Hunt asserted that it is 'enshrined in law' that trans women are women. Questions have been raised as to the truth of this statement. @RadFemLawyer provides a full explanation:

To obtain a GRC and be able to legally change one's gender today requires a diagnosis of dysphoria and a two year period living in one's acquired gender. Only THEN can a GRC be issued and legal gender change be possible.

Therefore, very few of today's trans identifying males (transwomen) are legally female. ONLY those with a GRC. But, If Stonewall gets the GRA revisions it seeks, any male could attain this legal status quickly and without any diagnosis of dysphoria, or a two year wait.

So, very few of the males who identify as women today have legally changed their gender. Ruth should have said: 'a small proportion of today's trans women (only those with a GRC and a diagnosis of dysphoria) are legally women.' Most are men.'

As well as misrepresenting the truth of today's situation, Ruth implies that the journey to her vision of a Stonewall-engineered post-GRA reform UK represents just a minor development of today's reality - and nothing to make a fuss about.