It doesn't matter. This is a tangent. This is not about what a job applicant feels like inside. This is about what clients will see. You know, the people rape crisis services were set up to serve.
Charities and NGOs do not exist to give people jobs. They exist to meet charitable aims, and the primary aim here is to support women subjected to rape. MW may feel like a woman. That's irrelevant. Will women subjected to rape see a woman? Remember the service is for all of them, not just the ones you think are appropriately 21st century in their thinking.
EXTRACT from Karen Ingala Smith, professional in the violence against women sector
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We know that at least 80% of males who hold a gender recognition certificate retain their penis, but anyway, in almost every case, we don’t need to know what’s in their pants to know they are a man. Women experiencing trauma after violence and abuse will, like most of us – almost always instantly read someone who might be the most kind and gentle trans identified male in the world – as male; and they may experience a debilitating trauma response as a result. It’s not their fault, it’s not a choice and it’s not something they can be educated out of. It’s not hate. It’s not bigotry. It’s not transphobia. It is an impact of abuse and they need space, support and sometimes therapy – not increased confrontation with a trauma inducing trigger; not nowhere to go that offers a woman-only space.
kareningalasmith.com/2020/07/08/trauma-informed-services-for-women-subjected-to-mens-violence-must-be-single-sex-services/amp/