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Stephen cites a list of feminist organisations who agree that self-ID is a good thing that will not hurt women. This is often used by those who would strip women of their hard-fought-for rights as a “gotcha” to prove that we are hysterical and that the feminist organisations who represent us think it’s OK, so so should we.
"The major point that Stephen misses is just how reliant on trust and statutory funding most of these women’s organisations are.
Just a few months ago Glasgow Rape Crisis lost funding, reportedly for not being inclusive enough of men. These are organisations that exist on a shoestring as it is, and they cannot afford to do anything other than toe the party line. I’d suggest that a better, more honest exercise, would be to ask the service users of these organisations – real women, who have often been abused horrifically by men, and who are left vulnerable and afraid – how they feel about men being allowed to share women-only services and spaces. "