Thread by @thisfemaletruth

Pretty devastating how this campaign has become unrecognisable in the last 30 years. #zerotolerance #scotgov
zerotolerance.org.uk/about-our-prev….

But unsurprising when you see their position statements @ForWomenScot @JennyMarra @K_IngalaSmith @ShonaghDillon zerotolerance.org.uk/vaw-position-s…

And specifically their blog. zerotolerance.org.uk/news/blog/viol…

No doubt @mbmpolicy are aware but will include here.

So, effectively in Scotland, NONE of these organisations are single sex. Effectively there are no single sex orgs/groups in Scotland rather than the ones campaigning for single sex rights. None of these groups for women and girls should really use that terminology as it's

misleading to the public and, specifically, women and girls.

Adding @DalgetySusan

What I find interesting about their statements, those of other 'women's organisations' and what can only be described as mission creep is when I came back to Dundee in 2009 between then and 2012, I was Director of a Women's Aid group there was zero mention of transgender issues

in relation to VAW orgs/provision. It just wasn't a thing. But Zero Tolerance say they and other women's groups/services have been trans inclusive since 2012?! Below the radar doesn't even begin to cover it.

"We will challenge the harmful notions of gender binary which perpetuate inequality and violence against all women" say Zero Tolerance. So using that logic if all women identified as men or non binary there would no longer be inequality and violence against women? I mean have

these women either not read, or have they misunderstood/rejected, the classic feminist texts about the roots of our oppression? The fact they don't get this is scarier than I thought, even before today's events.

Now, given that Shona Robison said she can't tell women's orgs what to do with provision of single sex spaces, despite their being the funding qualification, which demands a trans inclusive policy, should we now assume ANYTHING for women and girls across the board just isn't?

And shouldn't these orgs just stop giving the IMPRESSION that they provide women only services? A lot of them have continued to build their success off the back of the hard work of the women in the 70s and 80s starting groups on a shoestring. If Trades Descriptions Act covered

these orgs they'd be out. Maybe instead of us asking why they include trans identifying men we should ask why do they advertise and promote themselves as orgs for women? Why do some of them still use the EqA genuine occupational requirement exceptions in job adverts? And so on.

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