Women are punished twice.
Once for being women, and through that characteristic being vulnerable to sexual harassment and harm in the first place.
Twice for having the temerity to speak, on our own terms, about what we have endured at the hands of men, and for refusing to maintain a cloak of secrecy to protect them and their proclivities. I mean - the almighty cheek of us, eh?
This is why the TRA movement immediately made a beeline for Vancouver Rape Relief Centre, and why Sarah Summers is having to take Sussex Rape Crisis to court for their refusal to provide one - just one - single sex space free from the demographic who raped and traumatised her. She's been punished three times. Once through rape, once through rejection by the very facility set up to help survivors like her, thirdly via the long, gruelling legal process she's had to follow as her sole recourse to justice.
And don't even get me started on Mridul Wadhwa.
My heart breaks for Karen, the abuse victim at the centre of the Darlington nurses' case.
The vile TRA movement knows exactly what it's doing. A clear pattern emerges of targeting women for sexual abuse, or those who have already been victims, then accusing us of 'weaponising our trauma'. Isn't it striking just how similar the underlying tenets of these cases are?
This is not 'trans' rights activism. It's something else entirely. And what I really want to know is how many more of these cases - which women are almost exclusively winning in an almost unprecedented legal sense - it's going to take for that recognition to sink in.