Another rape crisis centre, another insult to women.
In July 2025 I resolved a 4 year legal case against the Brighton rape crisis centre Survivors’ Network for their failure to provide women with a single-sex peer support group. You can read the background to the case here.
You can read our joint statement following the resolution here.
On 27 March of this year, almost eight months after publication of the Joint Statement, Katy Bourne OBE, of The Sussex Police & Crime Commissioner announced there would be:
“A women-only* support group for survivors of sexual violence – provided by Survivors Network – available from April 26”, “women only” meaning “those assigned female at birth, who still identify as a woman”.
Survivors’ Network states on its website that the group (the Maple Group):
- Is part of a pilot commissioned by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex, initially running for a year;
- Will take place on Mondays, 14:00 – 16:00 at an accessible venue in the centre of Brighton; and
- Is for biological women survivors who still identify as women.
It’s that Monty Python skit about the important document available to everyone that’s in a locked box in a closet in a basement in Outer Mongolia – not the exact wording but you get the drift of the joke, and here it is in real life, not a joke but an astounding insult. Ok, bitches, you get your god damn “women only” service, for two hours a week. Can’t make it at that time? Tough shit.
It’s just astounding.
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