I hadn't seen the link to the Telegraph article, but good that it has been picked up.
But sometimes I wish the Telegraph and other papers eg the Times who may or may not have a genuine committment to sex based rights would get in touch with the right women's groups to comment.
ie someone who works for refuges so that the emphasis was on the fact that refuges are set up to be (bilogical) women only, and that as a funded organisation they have deliberately (or been brainwashed by Stonewall training) into not understanding the SSE.
Helen Joyces comments are just not apposite in terms of the implications for a domestic violence project and unfortunately waters down just how scandelous this advertisement is.
The Telegraph should have contacted Scottish Women's Aid to ask them how they felt that one of their members is placing misleading advertising.
Equally any funders, especially if it is Government money, to challenge them on why they aren't supervising grant funding properly.
This isn't some theoretical discussion about the law to allow campaign groups to get a few quotes in.
This is about an established sector whose work practices should be absolutely clear.
More specifically it is about the function and need for women's services as created by women's liberationism, and contemporary campaign groups dont seem to have the slightest grip or interest in that aspect.
What with the court case re ERCC and now this, it should be a huge opportunity to look at the overlaping problems of conditional funding by political groups, eg SNP as well as the invidious undermining of women's issues by queer trrans policy.
Making out that this is just a group that's taken a mis - step shows a complete lack of understanding of current politics and the history that led to it.
Talk about erasing women's history and women's rights.