Mick Hartley

A BBC report:

A row has broken out over an event’s single-sex attendance policy.

Rosie Hayes told the BBC multiple venues in Brighton had cancelled or stopped hosting trauma-healing classes organised by her group Sisters Heal for the victims of sexual assault, rape and domestic abuse, which were limited to “biological women only”.

She has claimed the venues were pressured into dropping the event due to “intense harassment” from what she called “trans activists”.

Terf Watch Brighton, which describes itself as a grassroots collective of journalists reporting on “anti-trans efforts”, said it was not aware of any groups or networks coordinating opposition to Sisters Heal.

Of course the Beeb go straight to Terf Watch Brighton as their reliable source.

Hayes, who is a co-founder of Sisters Heal, told the BBC she restricted attendance to the class because “a lot of women cannot heal in a mixed-sex space”.

“Female survivors [of sexual abuse and domestic violence] have been harmed by male bodies, male voices, male presence, male physicality,” she said.

“It’s a trauma response that they have, which isn’t cognitive.

“They can’t reason themselves out of it.”

Terf Watch Brighton told the BBC the groups run and advocated for by Sisters Heal and similar organisations are discriminatory to trans women, and deliberately divisive.

“Their purpose is always, at least in part, to push trans women out of society – it is unreasonable not to expect complaints and political opposition.”

The old trans bullshit. Of course women need single sex spaces to heal. But for the trans activists everything has to be about them – “to push trans women out of society” ffs.. Never mind the trauma of the actual women, supposed to take second place to the imagined slight felt by the men in dresses.

Of course Terf Watch Brighton have the last word. Well, this is the BBC:

Terf Watch Brighton said the line drawn for the need for “single-sex services” was “arbitrary, unevidenced, and based on prejudiced myths about how gender operates in society”.