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The small number of individual cases that highlight the flaws in the system are actually very useful. In the case of the fraudulent doctor, this caused the GMC to check all the other thousands of medical practitioners who registered under the same route, once they realised how flawed their original process had been.

Similarly, many people - including the author of the linked article - and numerous institutions are now rethinking the entire concept of pretending that males are female if they self-declare themselves as such. This is based on an increasing amount of cases where appeasing such declarations has caused significant harm or has the clear potential to do so.

For instance, the case of Isla Bryson showed how ridiculous it is to bow down to a male criminal's declaration that he is a woman and, so the ideological argument goes, must therefore be incarcerated in a woman's prison. Though, we already knew this from the Karen White case, where women prisoners were actually materially harmed with the sexual abuse he inflicted on them. These are are numerous other similar cases that demonstrate how harmful this is, and the cost to the safety and dignity of women.

Referring to any male as "she" and "her" because he requests or demands that others do so, and insists that to not do so is impolite, is the thin end of the wedge that enables all the safeguarding abuses and eradication of female-only spaces at the other end. And there's nothing at all polite about that.