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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

‘Trans women have never felt like a threat’: women’s refuges grapple with supreme court ruling

A demonstration in London protesting the supreme court's ruling on the definition of a woman
Some centres are concerned that survivors may be traumatised by the presence of trans women in single-sex spaces. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

“I have a list as long as my arm that I worry about daily,” says Katie Russell, the chief executive and co-founder of the service Support After Rape and Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL). “The funding landscape, a broken criminal justice system, the global threat of violent misogyny.”

She lives a few streets away from where two women were seriously injured last weekend in a crossbow attack perpetrated by a man who espoused misogynist hate online.

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