Brook House in west London will be a "UK first" in providing homes exclusively for women.

Brook House in west London will be a “UK first” in providing homes exclusively for women.

The idea is that single women are their own demographic, with different needs to families etc. It’s partly aimed at DA survivors… let’s be honest, even without DA a massive part is safety.

What’s your thoughts on this project? Would you be more likely to live in a block of women only flats to mixed?

  • Mossy Feathers (She/Her)@pawb.social
    201·
    29 days ago

    Yes please, that’d be sick. Granted, I think girls are pretty and I like smooching them, but…

    UK

    HAHAHAHA NEVERMIND. It’s guaranteed to be trans-exclusionary. Fuck the UK. Fuck the US. Fuck this bullshit world and the garbage people who live on it. I swear there are so many people on this earth that we’d truly be better off without.

    Edit: after looking up the policies of the managing group, Women’s Pioneer Housing, regarding trans people, it sounds like they might actually accept trans women; at least for now.

    A link to their policy: https://womenspioneer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Transgender-Policy.pdf

    • LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
      9·
      29 days ago

      I also like to smooch girls! And yep if they are DA related and allow trans they risk getting attacked from all sides and funding cut. So even if they’re not TERF there’s a good chance the TERFS will insist trans women suffer

    • dandelion@piefed.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
      8·
      29 days ago

      We will allow the following women to be nominated by the council or referral agency, and join our public waiting list:

      1. Any woman female by birth (Gender recognition Act 2004)
      2. Any woman who holds a gender recognition certificate legally declaring her female (Gender recognition Act 2004)
      3. Transgender women who meet the definition of a person who ‘intends to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone gender reassignment’ (Equality Act 2010).
      4. Non-binary women who are either born female, or meet the 2 and 3 above

      We will not accept nominations from the council, referral agency or waiting list for:

      • men who cross dress
      • transgender men
      • anyone who we know has a history of male violence against women or children

      The QL system should ask for gender and options should be:

      • Man
      • Woman
      • Other

      3.4. In terms of if a woman transitions to a man while living in our stock we would not take any action to end the tenancy

      So, it’s a bit of a mixed bag - but it’s not the transphobic policy I expected (excluding trans women entirely). Not sure how transfem enbies would feel about this policy, or how difficult it is in the UK to get the gender recognition certificate, or what their definition of “gender reassignment” means.