That people in leadership positions within the support sector will openly call trans women ‘men’, and conflate trans women’s existence with the gaslighting of cisgender male perpetrators, may go some way to explaining the institutional barriers many trans women have come up against while attempting to access support in gendered services. The British media conversation about trans women and ‘women only’ domestic violence services has been instrumental in blocking legal gender recognition reforms and has prevented genuine engagement with the reality of trans women’s experiences of domestic abuse
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