If you want a shelter that does that, start one.
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Why are the current ones women's by default. I was asked to look up Refuge's history & found Pizzey saying it should include men.
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Ok, heres the problem; you are starting from a default position instead of understanding the subject then forming an opinion.
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Women started womens shelters. Back then, the police would return them to their husbands. Women started them and women funded them.
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Funding from taxpayers didnt start until decades later. It didnt cover the entire cost and women have always had to fundraise.
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Shelters are constantly under attack. They get firebombed. Women have been raped and murdered in shelters.
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Shelter managers have to do risk assessments on people who try to access them. Women and men try to get in to attack the women.
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They house women and children. All are traumatised. They need specific help. Men and trans people need different services to women.
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Soon: use genetic profiling hormone tests, & brain scans to distinguish likely aggressors from amiable, civilized folk. Basically, Precrime.
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