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'Out of 837 submissions there are only six (that I can find and I did trawl through all of them but could well have missed one), from organisations that work within the male violence against women movement'
Women-only spaces provide a physically and emotionally safe environment that is vital to survivors’ recovery and empowerment after experiencing domestic and sexual violence and other forms of violence against women and Girls
'a trauma informed approach...means excluding men from their recovery space, it does not matter whether or not these males identify as trans, nor does it matter whether they themselves are or have been abusive'
'Our experience.. provides substantial evidence of the extreme methods some perpetrators are willing to use to access women’s spaces.. to continue to perpetrate their abusive behaviour, posing a very real risk' @PankhurstCentre
'There are no Rape Crisis services in Scotland which require sight of someone’s birth certificate prior to accessing their services'
Little surprise as stat funding is not available to Scot orgs that use single-sex exceptions
7] Worth noting that many leading experts working under the umbrella of Scot Rape Crisis disagree, but the chilling effect of #nodebate & inclusive funding clauses means orgs are prevented from protecting women
Women silenced by abusers & their advocates
💔 #VAWG#MeToo
8] Suffolk rape Crisis 💔DO NOT STAND UP FOR WOMEN
'Loudly and proudly trans inclusive'
yet also boasting
'@suffolk_rc is a feminist org one of the few remaining completely women only centres in England & Wales'
Would you like a side of gaslighting with your trauma?
9] Survivors Network not only fails to stand for women, but slams the door in our face 💔
'Policing gender expression and defining someone’s womanhood by her conformity to state-sponsored specifications is an archaic practice'
13] And if for some staggering reason, you don't think #sexmatters & having @RapeCrisisEandW services lobby to remove single sex exceptions from law, then we urge you to read this too
1] Disappointing to see @TabithaMortonWE stating that Sani's What Is A Woman is a 'MUST read'
The article starts with a bizarre interpretation of Bouvoir, & suggests 'British Feminism' has toxic corners when it comes to women discussing their own sex
@TabithaMortonWE The article uses images of the Hijra. India ruled in 2014 that a third gender marker & 3RD spaces, so no, this is not the 'corners of British feminism' discussing this
Many Hijra are openly gay men because of Indian homophobia (homosexuality is illegal)
Lesbian's are same sex attracted. In law this is described as an orientation. This is key as this embeds the idea that lesbianism is not a choice or a kink.
It is this terminology that has protected lesbians (in law) against conversion, punishment, shaming & corrective rape.
When #Stonewall changed their definition from 'same sex attracted' to 'same gender attracted' (to include males) this undermines the legal protections as listed above
Essential legal protections that #lesbians fought for 💔
The callous nature of our 'immigration' system manifests itself into daily horrors
When we campaigned for the end of Yarl's wood style detention facilities did we imagine that this would lead into a further lowering of standards in 'open accommodation'
UK’s history shows that they disregard such concerns unless forced to revise its decisions by campaigners/courts
100's of torture victims, people with HIV, pregnant women, children & people with serious medical problems have been swallowed by the brutal detention machine
The opening testimony from at the @WEP_UK members assembly on self ID stated that 'trans women face the same risks from men as women and girls do'....🧐.
The UK is one of the safest EU countries to live. In fact there were no reported transgender murders in the UK at all in 2016. Since the start of the Trans Murder Monitoring project in 2008 there has been on average just under 1 transgender person murdered in the UK each year.
The question we can now ask is whether transgender people at a higher risk of being killed than the average person? The data analysis suggests that they are not.