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Apparently female rape survivors 'need' mixed sex groups

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IamSarah · 16/04/2022 21:51

Honestly. This is what my local rape crisis centre wrote in a letter to the EHRC.

Apparently women who have been raped need to welcome trans women into the rape crisis groups as they provide amazing value and are 'needed'.

Of course they haven't actually asked female survivors. None of it is trauma informed. I've no idea what the motivation is but its dodgy as hell.

survivorsnetwork.org.uk/our-letter-to-the-equalities-and-human-rights-commission/

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ilovebencooper · 16/04/2022 22:13

Ugh

How utterly depressing

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 16/04/2022 22:12

Following on from Shonagh Dillon's PhD (available online and for free from her site) and the different responses she elicited relative to the SW survey, I, like you OP, would need 3rd party validation of any such claim.

PhD title: "‘#TERF/Bigot/Transphobe’ – ‘We found the witch, burn her!’" A contextual constructionist account of the silencing of feminist discourse on the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004, and the policy capture of transgender ideology, focusing on the potential impacts and consequences for female-only spaces for victims of male violence.

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The second finding, the one that during the data collection period surprised me most, relates to the participants I interviewed that also took part in the Stonewall Research. This research undertook interviews with 15 professionals from 12 national umbrella bodies and frontline services in the MVAW sector: reporting gender reform would have no impact.

I interviewed a third of the same participants and my findings were quite different, you can go straight to chapter 6, (The Impact) p.201, if you want to skip to this part of my research, but for a sneak preview here are a few of the participant’s quotes:

shonaghdillon.co.uk/welcome-to-my-website/

mumsnet thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4287881-Congratulations-Shonagh-Dillon-for-Defending-Your-PhD-TERF-Bigot-Transphobe-We-found-the-witch-burn-her?msgid=108769551

DrBlackbird · 16/04/2022 22:11

They were dismayed to see that single sex spaces are legally allowed?! Just WTAF?

At least it’s clear from the signatures to the letter where single sex services will not be offered…

IamSarah · 16/04/2022 22:09

Nope no apology. I will be able to share more details about the legal challenge in the next couple of weeks.

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DrBlackbird · 16/04/2022 22:02

Hi @IamSarah I was thinking about you and the callous indifference shown to you and other female rape survivors by the rape relief centre you attended in light of the recent EHRC ruling. So no apology from them yet? Shocking. Perhaps they asked one traumatised woman if it was okay and decided that was sufficient ‘evidence’?

VestofAbsurdity · 16/04/2022 21:58

Disgusting, utterly disgusting.

dropthevipers · 16/04/2022 21:57

Published in Brighton. Who'ed have thunk it?

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