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Rape Crisis Scotland still can’t define ‘woman’

Pity Sandy Brindley, chief executive of Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS). Since October last year, she has been wrestling with the problem of defining “woman” within the context of providing support for survivors of sexual violence. That is despite a tribunal judge ordered Scotland’s national rape crisis service to enforce a clear definition of “woman” across all its centres. This might not seem very difficult. I’m certain, for instance, that the stranger who assaulted me wasn’t a woman...