nd that the centre had failed to properly protect women-only spaces and had “caused damage to some survivors”.
Ms Ling called on RCS to devise and publish a “shared definition of woman/female” to be adopted across its network.
The charity, which receives more than £3 million in annual funding from the SNP government, had previously accepted Ms Ling’s recommendations in full. Sandy Brindley, its chief executive, claimed last September that work on a definition had been going on for nearly a year.
It's so complicated. The greatest philosophical minds are stumbling over this one. Well, only the greatest philosophical minds are stumbling over this one. Everyone else knows that a woman is an adult human female.
Tess White, the Scottish Tory shadow equalities minister, claimed the “shocking U-turn” showed RCS “haven’t learned any lessons” from a series of scandals.
“Once again women have been badly let down by an organisation that is supposed to support them, but which is failing to show any common sense,” she said.
“It is unacceptable that RCS still cannot give women reassurance that they will be able to access single-sex spaces at these centres.
“Ultimately, the SNP’s reckless self-ID policies are to blame for this betrayal of women and girls.”
Meanwhile, life goes on:
The Sunday Post reported at the weekend that in an internal consultation document about new rules, RCS stated that a woman can be “anyone who self-identifies as a woman”.
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