If you have a set of 6 services solely serving young men in a community.
What kinds of services? For example, women were banned from FA grounds until fairly recently but now have their own teams. They're not infringing on men's football by using the same grounds.
Then through the push for greater access to services and opportunities for young women all 6 of those services change their policies and ways of working then you have 6 services serving mixed sex groups of young people and none solely serving young men.
What kinds of groups do you mean? I was in the Venture scouts as a teenager and they were mixed sex. I believe they were formerly boys only. They didn't change the way they were run or their policies because girls joined, we all did exactly the same things.
The need for spaces for solely young men is still there so unless additional funding is sought and new services created then yes there has been an erosure of services that provide male only spaces and do male focused intervention work.
So you're talking about intervention work. You mean drugs, gang violence, knife crime, that kind of thing. I'm not aware of these resources becoming mixed, they usually get funding for specific areas of work.
Girls involvement in gangs is usually very different to those of boys. There's a lot of sexual violence against girls in gangs for example, which needs a different approach to males.
Obviously there is also the option of creating brand new separate services however, most funding providers look for inclusivity now meaning its much harder to find funding bodies who will fund single sec groups for male service users even if male professionals are there to do the work (never mind the discrepancy between male v female professionals in the community sector).
Some funding providers do look for ways of sharing funding such as joining other like minded groups but again, funding tends to be for specific uses. When you apply for funding, you have to be very clear about what you want the money for and why.
I don't see why a funder would refuse an application tackling male knife crime because some girls have been known to use knives. The money tends to go to where the need is. It would be great if you provided some specific examples.
Men need to step up and develop these funding opportunities and create better resources for young men that actually work. Ergo my point of two things being true at once. Feminism has eroded single sex male only youth work provision as the majority of services became mixed sex (not a criticism this was needed), and men failed to develop new services, train new male workers and create funding pots.
I'd argue that stretched funding and lack of resources have led to a need for shared facilities in some cases.
Feminism, in my opinion, is not about simply accessing male spaces. Women and girls wanted their needs catered for as well as access to male dominated occupations/ interests.
I could argue that Trans Rights Activists have actually been eroding single sex spaces for women, wanting access to refuges, changing rooms, lesbian groups and so on. Taking away women's rights for their own spaces. The inclusion of men in these spaces does change the dynamic and excludes many women.