BBC Children In Need withdraws funding from Glasgow rape crisis centre for 'not doing enough for men and boys'

This just reinforces my feeling that a lot of what we're seeing on the trans front is really about an attempt to shut down single sex services targeted at women and girls. There are a lot of people who're deeply offended by the idea of anything not being for men, and a larger group of people with a very stupid understanding of sexism that boils down to "but if we just treat everyone the same things will be perfect" and doesn't take context into account at all, and both groups want single sex services targeted at women and girls gone.

Won't donate to CIN again. This is the opposite of equality.

I just don't understand this. If they have concerns about spreading the money between the sexes why not fund, say, prostate cancer research too rather than insisting that every project serves everyone?

Children in Need have denied that their decision has anything to do with gender. Glasgow Rape Crisis say that information was conveyed in a phone call. I'm inclined to believe Rape Crisis.

They're no longer able to run a project helping girls aged 13-18. It's awful.

More from Glasgow Live:
www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/victims-desperate-for-counselling-15003732.amp

Is there any way they can challenge the decision? I am guessing BBCCinN doesn't qualify as a 'public body' that could be challenged: thewomensresourcecentre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Making-the-case-for-women-only-July-2011.pdf

I was supported by Glasgow Rape Crisis; it gave me my life back.
I will not ever donate for CIN again.
Thank you to those donating to them directly and signing the petition.

How many men and boys do "Children in Need" believe have been deprived of support by Glasgow Rape Crisis centre? Are rape statistics of male rape and sexual abuse victims even available specifically for the Glasgow centre's catchment area? In other words, is the shortfall for men and boys even quantifiable?

If the centre is "not doing enough for men and boys", is it doing something or nothing? If some men and boys are being helped, presumably they will lose that support. So, "Children in Need" would seem to allegedly prefer nobody to be helped rather than some people to be helped.

I reminds me of the way that MREs (male rights extremists) prefer many women to suffer even if it means that some men also suffer, because MRE's hatred of women trumps everything else.

The fact is they couldn't help most of their victims anyway, (women) because of money, that didn't bother anyone. the 100 women not receiving care is fine, deny it to 2 men and you're fucking evil.

Will not be donating ever again and will spread the word

I've had a look at the organisations near to me that get cin funding and they are all targeted - vulnerable children, by religion, ethnicity, by sex ...(non specify men). It doesn't look like this was the reason that funding was pulled, or should every organisation by worried about future funding?

Why is Children in Need interested in men?

Makes you wonder, eh?
I’m forwarding this to the PTA at the schools my children attend. No way will they want to be raising money for CIN anymore.

Absolutely scandalous they are withdrawing money from the rape crisis, and the females and children that need it. Help for male victims has always been shit but lets not punish female victims twice because of it

just stop giving to these big organisations

I agree and have said this several times on here already. So many reasons to do a bit of legwork and work out who is doing reliable grass roots work on a shoestring near to you - extortionate salaries; various abuse scandals; huge reserves kept instead of being used for funding causes; pomo takeover at leadership level, leading to highly questionable funding decisions.

Mermaids doesn't do anything for children who do not identify as transgender.

Shouldn't they have their funding pulled?

Shit that's the last time I give CIN anything. I am pissed off to think my money could have gone to them robinson

BBC Children in Need currently spend £450k on transgender programmes:

£125,861 Mermaids
£115,953 Gendered Intelligence
£91,353 Leicester LGBT Centre
£74,541 Allsorts Youth Project
£30,000 The Proud Trust
£16,580 Hart Gables Tees Valley
£454,288 Total

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/psvxkB6QDMK63pgHmP5RJF/who-you-help

Petition just starting here, please share widely:

www.change.org/p/bbc-children-in-need-reinstate-funding-for-glasgow-clyde-rape-crisis/psf/promote_or_share

I’ve just donated to RCG. They do great work locally and the staff are wonderful (I knew them in a precessional capacity). I stopped donating to CiN years ago when news of the huge payments to presenters came out.

There is a thread going at the moment about ninety-odd percent of chugger targets are women. Also when the kids were small I used to watch the telly and on every break of the programmes I watched was a harrowing charity appeal I'd have to try and protect my kids from, because they were targeting me as a woman. This leads me to conclude that although men have a much greater disposable income than women, women are more likely to give to charity.

So yes, how about we give directly? The small charities will get much more dosh.

Agree with birds, just stop giving to these big organisations. As per other posters this along with all the other scandals facing charities confirms that it's much better to give locally. I hope that CIN see a hit to their fund raising if they do things like this.

On another note, given that CIN is BBC could this be linked to the make-up of the staff employed by them?

Why is Children in Need interested in men?

Jessica Eaton on twitter says this:

If this is the reason CIN declined this grant fund they need to take a long hard look at themselves. How come when we are bid writing for women, you constantly get ‘what about the men?’ But I can win £650k for our male mental health centre and no one asked me about women once.

I'd like to know the answer to this too.

We respond with the power that we have . Economic power. Do not donate to CIN donate to a local women's charity.

..another service for women and girls destroyed, this really is a #waronwomen