Q2 What does a Gender Recognition Certificate mean to non-Trans people?

I pose this question because the questioner and response gatherer seem to assume that a Gender Recognition Certificate can only mean something to a trans person. That doesn’t seem to me to be true.
I am a Quaker lesbian (female homosexual) woman(of that accursed British Empire, for services to the human rights of ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender people’) and the fact of a Gender Recognition Certificate means something to me.
This question is clearly aimed at trans people only and yet a Gender Recognition Certificate can mean things to non-trans people.
For me, a lesbian, trans-friendly person since 1979, 1st coming out of a trans person to me c1993–5 and advocate for ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender’ people and Quaker, it means that sensible processes are in place, which are realistic about guarding against foreseeable and foreseen abuses of such a process & that coherence exists within all relevant processes ie public confidence wrt rigour of thinking, absent from even this question.
2: Current Gender Recognition Certificate (cont)
What Trans People having GR Certificates means to me (not trans): Public Confidence in Legal Processes:
i) Many public utterances of reassurance have been made than rigorous and stringent risk assessment were in place, ridicule has been made of those who suggest that placing transwomen with male genitalia in 5% female prison estate was ‘hysteria’ and fear-mongering and yet, in this case, not only was this individual on remand for sexual offences, s/he had previous convictions for sexually offending including against children. Transgender inmate admits Wakefield jail sex[1](ual) offences: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-45436953.
ii) Who couldn’t imagine that mixing people with male genitalia with people without male genitalia in NHS hospital wards would not lead to instances of sexual harassment & violence up to and including rape of people without male genitalia? In December 2017, Anne Ruzylo, (a lesbian[2] prison officer, warned of this very certainty but (says she) was subjected to a smear campaign within the Labour Party and branded transphobic. https://www.economist.com/britain/2017/12/02/are-women-born-or-made
To those of us who *actually* interview #sexual offenders: a no of reasons a prisoner might #Trans-ition. A plethora of prison intelligence suggesting that the driving force was a desire to make subsequent sexual offending very much easier. Only one of a number of reasons raised by the President of British Association of Gender ID Specialists in letter of evidence to Maria Miller MP 20 Aug 2015, which suggests that sexual offenders may have plenty of incentives for ‘gender reassignment’ and yet while the consultation makes much of fraud checks, it makes no mention of DBS checking when British systems rely on signed statements of veracity, abuses of which have to be discovered in retrospect. http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/women-and-equalities-committee/transgender-equality/written/19532.pdf
[1] Words matter, words must have meaning, and those meanings have consequences especially when used to construct …laws. Parliament and the whole talent of the Civil Service not understand the grammatical (& other) obscenity of embedding tabloid usage of “sex” as an abbreviated adjective for ‘sexual’.
[2] Lesbians, as part of LGBT conglomeration have had if anything the longest direct contact with real trans people. It should be remembered that transwomen are a direct part of gay male culture, of calling each other queens ie female males, there is a parallel butch lesbian culture and drag king but that owes more (to me) to proximity to the trans culture of gay males. During the Age of Consent campaign, that I and other lesbians witnessed directly because we were campaigning within it, lesbians warned of allying with other sexual libertarian campaigns specifically the Paedophile Information Exchange. I was involved in this campaign because as a rape survivor I saw it made it almost impossible for a boy or young man to report rape or sexual abuse due to the fact that if rape could not be proven (notoriously hard) they could technically be charged with involvement in their own rape. Lesbians at forefront of HIV AIDS campaigns but also at the forefront in the establishment of women-centred Rape Crisis and Domestic Violence Refuge provision. “Those who don’t heed the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them.”
