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Ray Parker's avatar

Thank you for pointing this out, and for your insight.

It never ceases to amaze me that acceptance is not the default behavior for everyone. It's as if some people feel that accepting the differences of others always takes something away from themselves, and in a harmful way. To me, this is evidence of the thinking inside a very limited mind.

Addressing your point: 'I also question GCRC’s assertion that “women have consistently told us, that single-sex services delivered by an all-female workforce are crucial”'.

I feel certain if it were possible to look into this more deeply, what we would find is that the question about preferences can be posed to service users in such a way that is guaranteed to elicit precisely this response, all without revealing the bias hidden in the question. The GCRC (and others who have taken the same tack) will then receive the answer they must have in order to justify their bad behavior, without ever having considered the question fairly.

(I'll stop now, before I spiral further into more unanswerable "why" questions.)

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Sarah Terzo's avatar

This is awful. Thanks for writing about it. People need to know. (I'm a lesbian cis ally)

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Kaylin Hamilton's avatar

Thanks Sarah!

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Kaylin Hamilton's avatar

They’re the worst 🫤

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Kaylin Hamilton's avatar

I disagree that they should lose funding. They are the main rape crisis service (more or less the only one) covering a fifth of Scotland’s population (about a million people). If they lost funding it would mean thousands of cis women and girls who have been victims of rape and sexual violence would be without support. And it wouldn’t do anything to provide support for trans women and girls. Removing their funding would be harmful and pointless. It would also almost certainly be used to attack the trans community - we would be blamed.

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Kaylin Hamilton's avatar

Unfortunately this is purely to do with the board of GCRC being TERFs, can’t blame the British government for a change! Well actually I suppose we could, since they’ve double their fair share of spreading transphobia and emboldening bigots.

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Kaylin Hamilton's avatar

Thank you for the feedback Victoria. It wasn’t intended to imply all services but I see how it could be read that way if someone doesn’t have the knowledge that it’s a network of services. Will change it to avoid any upset or confusion. Thanks for pointing that out I really appreciate it.

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Kaylin Hamilton's avatar

I totally need to check out Trans Radio UK!

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Kaylin Hamilton's avatar

Ah I was just on your website and I thought I recognised someone, that’ll be why. Wow, being targeted by JK must have been awful. She’s such a vile bigot.

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Kaylin Hamilton's avatar

You’re both stronger people than me! My writing is fuelled mostly by despair 🫠

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Kaylin Hamilton's avatar

That sounds amazing, I’ll check it out thank you 🙂

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