A Brighton rape crisis centre said that it had agreed to offer female-only groups after settling a lawsuit.
The case against the Survivors’ Network was brought by a woman who had been raped and was known as Sarah Summers or Sara Survivor or in court papers as GCS.
She said: “I’m so happy to share that women in Brighton and Hove now have the option of single-sex rape crisis therapy.
“This will be run by Survivors’ Network with input from me and other women survivors.”
The case was due to be tried in September but, on Monday (28 July), in a joint statement, Sarah Surviving and the Survivors’ Network said: “We are happy to share that Survivors’ Network has reached a mutual agreement with GCS, known in her public communications as ‘Sarah Surviving’ resolving the legal challenge brought against our organisation.
“We are pleased that this matter has been resolved without the need for trial.
“Survivors’ Network is proud to be providing a new peer support group for biological women and we are collaborating with Sarah Surviving along with other women survivors about this additional space.
“This group will be open to biological women who identify as women and biological women who do not have a gender identity.
“We understand for some biological women such a space is imperative for their healing and acknowledges their trauma.
“This group will run alongside our existing provision.
“We are grateful for the opportunity to learn and grow through this process and we remain dedicated to serving all survivors with compassion, integrity and respect.”
Good. Can’t believe Sarah had to fight for justice in the first place. Trauma on trauma. SN is run by idiots who should resign.
This is excellent news. It is shocking that Sarah had to go to court to make a rape crisis centre offer a single sex counselling group
Great work by Sarah. The western world has lost its mind.
This is excellent news. What a long and arduous journey it has been. Well done.
Why put biological women who identify as women and biological women who don’t have a gender identity? Does this mean biological women who identify as a man are not able to attend?
Still can’t get away from the nonsense confusing language can we.
Mankind runs the services for cis and trans men.
It is confusing language. And I suspect they want to be clear so they don’t have to deal with the same challenge regarding an FTM.
Well done Sarah, great news, single sex services that should never have been removed have been restored. It is good the service saw sense and settled out of court but it still shouldn’t have got this far. All those working in public services cowing to transgender ideology/overreach/demands should be ashamed of what they’ve allowed to happen to women and girls rights, protection, safety and wellbeing.
Thank You Sarah. For Persevering for Single Sex Rape Crisis Therapy to be Available for Yourself,For All Brighton and Hove Women and Girls,Who Need it.
The Service Ought to have been provided without you needing to fight for it. So Grateful you did Tho.
Brilliant news. Thank you Sarah for standing up for women. That it even came to this is ridiculous
Lunatics seem go have talen over the asylum. How are these organisations having to be told by a court that biological women or just ‘women’ are very different from a Trans-Woman and cannot truly understand a woman’s perspective in dealing with such issues. Brighton the home of lunacy.
Because the law is conflicted in that it also states one shouldn’t discriminate.
Funny how the trans ideologues and their allies, including institutions and services that should have known better have been so quick and so enabled to discriminate against biological women and girls at the demand of men who ‘want’ or ‘feel’ they want to be women though. The law is not, and was not conflicted- it has been systematically abused by an ideology intent on gaslighting and compelling everyone to think you can wish your biological sex away, that any man who says he is a woman is a woman and everyone has to affirm this or they are hateful and a bigot, that it’s progress to medicalise gender dysphoria, causing long term physical harm and physically ‘converting’ our gay and lesbian youth in the process. Condemning, silencing, attacking and threatening anyone (especially women) who dares to raise concern and speak up. It is ridiculous it has taken a Supreme Court ruling to confirm that sex means biological sex under the equality act, and women and girls have sex based rights that should not be discriminated against.