" ... “To be eligible for funding, applicants are required to demonstrate the following in their application…Ensure that your service is inclusive to lesbian, bisexual, trans and intersex (LBTI) women. An LBTI Inclusion Plan should be submitted along with your application.”
To be eligible for funding…ensure your service is inclusive to trans women.
This condition is extremely problematic to organisations such as Women’s Aid who have traditionally been proud to run a by-women-for-women service, and they rely on the single-sex exceptions (Schedule 3, Part 7, 26-28) and the Genuine Occupational Requirements (Schedule 9, Part 1, 1) in the Equality Act to do so – these allow for the exclusion of all men, if it can be objectively justified, also excluding transwomen (with or without a Gender Recognition Certificate). Examples given in the Explanatory Notes specifically mention women-only domestic abuse units and sexual assault counselling services as being legitimate uses of the single-sex exceptions.
This leads to the very concerning situation of organisations compelled to either forego applying for essential funding if they wish to remain women-only, or cede their rights to use an important part of UK legislation. ... "
forwomen.scot/29/12/2019/funding-conditions/
(Sorry if it looks like I'm highlighting Scottish Government, just the excellent work of forwomen.scot in revealing these issues. Have absolutely no doubt that other Government's funding has the same criteria. But as we know women working in the VAW sector in England do not speak out about women's sex based rights.)