Women's Aid Federation have now also made a statement. www.womensaid.org.uk/womens-aid-statement-member-service-incident/
The language is oblique.
But surely this (along with others) is a perfect example of why the prohibition of using "dead names" is not safe. Isn't there a campaign on at the moment pointing out this is a loophole that can be exploited.
But also sad to see that allowing individual WA Refuge's have their own policies on whether they offer services to trans women and whether that is based on self id, or gender reassignment service, just erodes women's rights under the equality act to single sex provision.
Also, the Women's Aid directory of the individual refuges that are part of the federation should be explicit in listing whether their service is open to trans women.
Leeds Women's Aid listing doesn't seem to mention this.