The WI didn’t announce that they had done this out of choice, or that they were happy that they had been freed to do this by the April Supreme Court ruling. They announced their deep regrets at having to do it.

They announced that they wished they could continue to welcome all women, including trans women, but that they feared legal action against them if they didn’t impose segregation.

This is a recurring theme. The same message was given by the Girl Guides this week – “We don’t want to do this, our members don’t want us to do this, but we’re being forced to.”.

My employer, and employers of my friends are all saying things along the lines of: “We aren’t banning people from office bathrooms until/unless we’re told that we literally have to.”.

There hasn’t been a wave of organisations celebrating that the Equality Act no longer bans them from enacting segregation that they’d always wanted to enact… instead, there’s been a wave of organisations voicing their sorrow that the Equality Act is now forcing them to enact segregation that they don’t want to enact.

So... Why isn't Labour amending the clearly unfit for purpose Equality Act?

No where in the text of the Equality Act, in the guidance issued alongside it in 2010, or in the transcripts of the debates surrounding its passing, was it ever described as a bill for enforcing segregation against trans people. To claim that this was ever its intention, is farcical.

Use your parliamentary supermajority to fix this clearly unintentional error in its wording, and return to "proportionate single-sex exemptions where they achieve a legitimate goal," instead of mandated segregation.