I just saw this response on twitter.
In the piece she thinks only pregnant women experience domestic violence. As ever, the transphobia is sickening. You will lose this fight against human rights.
She was responding to the Times article about Nicola Murray, the founder of a specialist charity for women who have experienced pregnancy loss as a result of domestic violence, being visited by police officers.
I'm not linking directly to the tweet because she's received plenty of responses already, and I am certain every single one is pointless. If you can read about a charity being founded to support women who've miscarried because of violence and conclude the founder "thinks only pregnant women experience domestic violence", what is there to say to you?
I've always believed in the power of rational conversation. Clearly I was deluded.
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The founder of a charity supporting women who have suffered domestic violence has been interviewed by police after she was reported for hate crime after stressing its female-only services.
Nicola Murray was left “shocked and panicky” when detectives arrived at her door after an online announcement by Brodie’s Trust that it would no longer refer women to Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC).
Talking to the officers, Murray, from Stanley, near Perth, was taken aback when she said they told her: “We need to speak to you to ascertain what your thinking was behind making your statement.”
Murray, 43, founded Brodie’s Trust in 2018 to support women from all over the world “who’ve suffered pregnancy loss through domestic violence or forced termination” by directing victims tolocal services for help.
She and a colleague determined its revised policy towards ERCC following statements by Mridul Wadhwa, the trans womanappointed its CEO last year, who claimed “bigoted” victims of sexual violence should expect to be “challenged on their prejudices”.