Read our groundbreaking report featuring first-hand interviews with managers and users of female-only services. A woman’s trauma response doesn’t care how someone identifies. A woman who has had a male towering over and threatening her, been battered by a male fist, been throttled by a male grip or humiliated
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A long-term follow up study of transsexual people was conducted in Sweden in 2011. Study HERE. FTT – Female to Trans = Trans-identified female or transman. MTT – Male to Trans = Trans-identified male or transwoman. The study looked at the number of crimes committed by the transsexual cohort under
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Fair Play For Women would like to ask our supporters to read and share the open letter written by Fovas*; a group of female survivors of male violence. Click here to read the letter: Open letter from female survivors of male violence to women’s organisations (*Fovas stands for Female-Only, Violence
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Girlguiding is not just sleepwalking into the next sex abuse scandal. They are willfully turning the other way and hoping for the best.” Julie Bentley, the Chief Executive Officer of Girlguiding, made this statement on 12 March 2018 in response to media reports that parents and leaders are concerned about
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When I hear people say “Not All Men”. This is what I think. Not all passengers in taxi cabs are thieves, but taxi drivers put up plastic screens. Passengers don’t say “Not All Passengers”. Not all teachers are paedophiles but we check their criminal records annually. Teachers don’t say
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To whomever it may concern: RE: My Gender Identity Your gender identity isn’t the same as mine. Please respect this important piece of information. It is an objective fact. Whatever yours is, I can guarantee that it isn’t the same as mine. If gender identity is now the
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#MeToo – One woman’s lifetime in everyday sexual assaults. There have been too many to count, so these are some that stuck in my mind. There’s nothing special about me: all women suffer everyday sexual assaults, and many get it far worse. This isn’t inevitable – men can be better; plenty of men are. I try to figure out why so many men are predators, and how women are trained to put up with it. (Medium-long read, with lots of pictures.)
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Serious, harmful and on-going domestic violence – women don’t do it too. 90% is committed by men. Some men are like that: 2 women a week in the UK are murdered by their male partners. Escaping “the dominator” takes a great deal of courage, and research shows women need safe environment where there will be no men. They won’t seek help if males are present. Exclusionary? Yes. Women’s lives are at stake. More information & advice here.
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Sexual assault – some men are ‘like that’. The reasons women need space away from men, why women are wary of men seem obvious to me. As a woman, it is obvious. As someone who has worked with vulnerable women and children, it is obvious. As a rape survivor, it
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David Wong describes how he, like all men, was subtly trained to view sexually assaulting women as normal and desirable.
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Alan Carr doubtless feels he’s being loyal to old friend Justin Lee Collins, who was convicted of domestic abuse. Very often the abuser, the person using violence or emotional abuse to batter their partner, uses friends as part of his armoury. They provide a convenient smokescreen behind which to hide the abuser’s true nature. Women’s Aid reports 2 women a week are murdered by their partners in the UK. Police receive a domestic abuse call every 30 seconds.
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