#rapecrisis — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rapecrisis, aggregated by home.social.
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Inclusion advice to #bbc journalists from a #trans lady: using the term ‘women-only’ to mean ‘trans-exclusionary’ contributes to the idea that trans women are not women, and erases non-binary people entirely.
There is a legal provision for cis-female spaces, and there is a moral case for the existence of those spaces. Yes, #ERCC failed on this.
But the root cause is sexual violence, predominantly by cis men, and scarcity of funding for survivors.
Fund #RapeCrisis provision for ALL genders.
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CW: Abuse
#Caution: People in #Ireland have always known about sexual/physical #abuse by all walks of society/church & didn't allow that they knew because rape is designed to traumatise and silence. As were laws in Ireland around #Censorship, so legal cases were stymied. Jury laws too. The early days of Dublin #RapeCrisis & WellWoman centres we met women/children/men. #Abuse is a sexual colonisation that wields power&compliance via a shame #omerta #CatholicChurch https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/11/19/jennifer-oconnell-clerical-child-abuse-required-the-silent-complicity-of-a-wilfully-ignorant-society/