It has been repeated many times, but the idea that cis het men would go to any bother whatsoever pretending to be trans women in order to sexually assault someone when they do so all the time already and are rarely and barely punished for it is patently absurd, and yet we are constantly forced to address this nonexistent, made-up problem by people who just want trans people to disappear and die.

@gwynnion evidence from 7 years of similar legislation in Ireland backs your understanding 100%.
This intervention is nothing to do with the Equality Act and everything to do with defenestration of the Scottish Parliament.

Biggest losers, apart from those the Act aims to help and support, are Labour, who have spent 25 years telling us a U.K. govt would never do this.
They now either back Tory stance or stand up for Scotland. Do nothing and they’ll face further electoral damage.