Safe spaces for women (and anyone else who says they’re a woman) help by completing Leeds survey

[Ouchiebum]

Leeds council are consulting on creating safe spaces for women. But not just for women. For anyone who identifies as a woman ie men and women, therefore giving people who are most likely to harm women ie men access to the space designed to keep them safe.

I am really annoyed about this survey and am asking as many of you as possible to complete it to point out that women needs safe spaces based on sex. Not on how people feel.
https://surveys.leeds.gov.uk/s/OWA2023/?dm_i=7IRL,39I6,19VMAF,C5JW,1

Well, well, well.

I invite anyone who's not yet looked at the survey to play a little game. One of the questions (relating to how safe people feel in the city centre at different times of day) is:

Do you feel any of your personal characteristics particularly impact the experience you have? If so, which ones?

Guess what's missing.

Duly done.

That is bonkers...what is it about your personal characteristics that make you afraid....but being female is not there?

Done. Seems they don’t much like that word woman or girls. Until last page

What a load of fucking bullshit. I've completed it and pointed out they've missed the word woman out. Twats

Done.

Thank you all. I’m glad you are feeling my rage as well. It has really really annoyed me. I am sick of this utter nonsense

Done. What nonsense.

Thanks for posting. Oh I had fun filling in that. 😂

I live near Leeds and refuse to go there because of negative experiences. I've filled in the survey and pointed out that they are a disgrace.

Yep. Spotted and said no to all the other characteristics but emphasised it is about SEX.

The survey doesn't open for me, I'd definitely do the survey if I could get the link to work.

Done. A survey about women and they don't include sex, a legally protected characteristic. FFS. I would ask what on earth is wrong with these people but I think we all know the answer to that.

Done!

A survey about women and for women that doesn’t include sex as a characteristic is fucking stupid and I’ve told them so,

That is outrageous. I have filled it in and made my point

Done. I wrote rather a lot in the comments section ☺️

Done.

I don't live in Leeds but I am often there on the weekend.

I'd point out that it's men (or 'people assigned male at birth') that present a risk to women's safety based on physical biology rather than gender (bigger, stronger, more predatory etc); that this biology isn't changed and the risk is not mitigated by transition or identity (TW actually over-represented among serious sex offenders); and that including AMABs within women's safe spaces sabotages their safety.

Emailed them, with a focus on how flawed the survey design is.

(In the hope that may get through to them at least!)

I clicked “other” and put “my sex”

Do you think the survey was really 'created by women'?

Done.

Yes I made sure to point this out. Twice 😆

Could easily have been. Supporting the erasure of women is not a uniquely masculine trait.