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Self Identifying Women wanted

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 09/07/2020 21:06

Our local Rape Crisis Centre is advertising for volunteers to be trained to respond to peopl calling for help. The advert stipulates that you've got to be over 18 and that you self identify as a woman.

So if I were the victim of a horrendous sexual assault I would phone for help/ support and possibly end up speaking to a "self identifying woman" who has a penis.

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 09/07/2020 21:47

I have no idea @TornadoOfSouls

The Cambridge News is usually late to the party on this sort of thing.

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fascinated · 09/07/2020 21:46

I was under the impression this was quite common? Sadly.

TornadoOfSouls · 09/07/2020 21:42

Do the local press know about this?

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 09/07/2020 21:41

@Butterer wow, that's very clear. Shock

I just can't get my head round it. The CRCC is specifically for female victims of sexual abuse. And yet those victims might be counselled by a male volunteer.

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Highperbolay · 09/07/2020 21:39

A quick look through the Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre shows they have retweeted vacancies from other centres. It is heartening to see Sheffield Rape Crisis Centre correctly using the Equality Act to ensure that only females get their positions. I mean, it shouldn't be 'heartening' it should be an absolute minimum standard, but here we are.

Self Identifying Women wanted
Butterer · 09/07/2020 21:32

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 09/07/2020 21:29

I see Butterer has already worked it out.

Yes, Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre.

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JackiFazaki · 09/07/2020 21:29

Sorry, cross-posted.
Just read the Cambridge ad.
Who are we looking for?
Self-identifying women (18 years+)

Blimey. Lost. For. Words.

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EmmaGrundyForPM · 09/07/2020 21:27

cambridgerapecrisis.org.uk/volunteerwithus

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JackiFazaki · 09/07/2020 21:24

Can you link to the advert please?

Butterer · 09/07/2020 21:24

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Etinox · 09/07/2020 21:20

Withholding comment until I see a screenshot or link.

Highperbolay · 09/07/2020 21:20

So you might ring up and get a male voice on the other end of the line?

They'd hang up.

But far be it for a Rape Crisis service to place the needs of the people turning to them for help, first.

Exactly. But as long as the volunteer has been validated as a 'woman' then who cares about the people actually using the service?

Antibles · 09/07/2020 21:19

Appalling.

LardiLaLardiLi · 09/07/2020 21:18

Could you send a link or print screen of advert?

wellbehavedwomen · 09/07/2020 21:16

They'd hang up.

But far be it for a Rape Crisis service to place the needs of the people turning to them for help, first.

aliasundercover · 09/07/2020 21:15

... and you'd be called transphobic if you asked for a non-penis haver.

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