Evaluation finds 174 women reported "misogyny hate crimes" from April 2016 - March 2018
73 classified as crimes
101 as "incidents"
Only 1 conviction
But may be having beneficial behavioural, educational effects - policy makes them feel safer
Nottingham Women's Centre recommends focusing on how women's rights to use social space is infringed upon...the social and emotional cost of invasion of space
How any of this is compatible with telling security staff that women's privacy in single sex spaces doesn't matter I do not know
If you take seriously the human rights of women to access public spaces and not to be harassed or made to feel afraid or objectified then you must protect single sex spaces
There are staff & trustees all over the sector too scared to speak up up
Sam Smethers could have given them protection while at Fawcett.
Meanwhile the leadership of established orgs self-flagelate over "white tears"
How hard would it have been for these established organisations to have put together a "Development Emergencies Committee" style website for individual donations (they wouldn't even need a common pot, just a menu would have done it), but they wer busy apologising ...
Leaving the field open for an ungoverned fund to jump in.
JoMo "im the best feminist" thinks it's all good (it's very similar to his "Save Trans Kids" fund after all)