Such a good point.

The EA addresses trans rights in detail, and expressly protects them. How could its intention have been to undermine the main purpose of the GRA (that a person with a GRC is to be legally recognised as their acquired sex)? And without saying so?

No

Mary-Ann Stephenson assumes - either from ignorance or malice - that trans people have no legal rights as trans. That is deeply troubling from someone holding her role - although hardly surprising given her history.

Awful - and hopelessly out of her depth (just as two Select Committees concluded).

Asked directly by Kuenssberg whether a trans woman is a woman Mary-Ann Stephenson can't bring herself to say yes. My role is enforcing the Equality Act, she says, and under that Act, no.

This is legally inaccurate - her role is far broader (see below) - and powerful evidence of her bigotry.

Fourth, neither Kuenssberg (or Mary-Ann Stephenson) even contemplate that trans people might have rights too, to live in their right gender. All they can say is that they should merely not be left without any spaces at all - ie they should become a third sex.

Third, she said the EHRC's draft Guidance "angered trans campaigners" when restating what she falsely claimed the Supreme Court decided. No mention of the fact it was withdrawn, is disavowed as law by Government lawyers, will soon be adjudicated on by the High Court, or angered many cis women too.

Second, she then completely misstates what the Supreme Court decided. She says it decided the question of who should be able to access single sex spaces. That's just flat out mis or disnformation. Here's what Lord Hodge said.

First, she frames the issue as a conflict between transgender rights and women's rights. Where is the evidence for that broad framing of conflict? Where is the evidence that women as a group see there as being a clash? None is given and women remain supportive of trans rights.

A friend of mine - a longstanding highly rated and senior servant to the Labour Party - wrote to me some weeks back saying 'This is the worst Government of my life time.' He hadn't forgotten Liz Truss but he credited her, inept though she was, with, unlike Labour, at least knowing what she wanted.

If Labour wanted to know why it is tanking electorally trans rights would be a great case study. Not because people vote on trans rights; most don't. But because everyone - both the JKRs who hate trans people and trans people and their allies - can sniff out Labour's position as insincere bullshit.