Rape crisis charity co-founder backs Glasgow centre over gender row

[GranolaGal]

A co-founder of Scotland’s rape crisis movement has urged 16 other centres to follow Glasgow’s lead by restoring single-sex services for traumatised female assault victims.
Rosemary Whyte, who helped found the country’s first rape crisis centre in Glasgow in 1978, hailed the “brave and principled” decision by Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis (GCRC) to return to single-sex support.
It severed links with national charity Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS) citing conflicts over the inclusion of trans women — biological males self-identifying as female — in support services, and now intends to provide a single-sex service staffed by an “all-female workforce”.
Whyte said the move marked a long-overdue return to the founding principle of rape crisis centres being “run by women for women” and called on Scotland’s other 16 centres currently affiliated to RCS to follow suit.
She said: “I am absolutely delighted with the brave decision taken by the Glasgow centre. It is the first to break from RCS, which I am very pleased about as it was in Glasgow that we set up the first rape crisis centre, and the first is always the trailblazer.”Rape crisis charity co-founder backs Glasgow centre over gender row

Thanks for posting the link OP, that was a great article.

Here’s a link to the archived version for those without subscriptions:

https://archive.is/GcKkd

Brilliant news and thanks for the archive link 👏

I just heard Nuala cheerfully asking something along the lines of 'with the WEP potentially closing, we want to know what matters to YOU in the world of gender equality?'

Ffs, still the bloody basics Nuala.

I'm so pleased for the women of Scotland.

Hopefully this will continue with women retrieving all our organisations, sports and spaces from colonising men.

❤

Great article thanks for sharing x

From the article:
"Although rape crisis centres are autonomous, they sign up to the standards of RCS, which received government funding of £6 million for 2022-25. A condition of third-sector funding from the SNP government is that their services must be trans-inclusive."

So what exactly is the purpose of RCS then? It sounds like they inject themselves between the people doing the work, and the people in government handing out the taxpayer money. And they impose their own morality standards before handing out money? And they skim some of the public money off to pay their staff? Sounds pretty parasitic to me.

Already posted on existing thread, as it seemed good to have everything relating to this bold move by Glasgow and Clyde RCC in one place!

Also has link to very strong statement by Kemi Badenoch about people (including politicians) choosing to misrepresent the law.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5194527-bbc-rape-centre-breaks-away-from-charity-in-row-over-gender-glasgow?page=3

Hallelujah - feeling optimistic about the future sometimes

Hopefully this will continue with women retrieving all our organisations, sports and spaces from colonising men.

This.