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A sexual assault survivor is suing a government-funded rape crisis centre for allowing a transgender woman to access its female-only support group.
The victim, who has been named only as Sarah, joined the group at the Survivors’ Network in Brighton last year.
Sarah, who was sexually abused as a child and later raped in her 20s, said she initially felt ‘relieved’ to share her story with women who had similar experiences.
But after noticing ‘someone who appeared to be a man’ in one of her sessions in September, she said she was left feeling ‘shaken and upset’.
Sarah, not her real name, joined Brighton-based Survivors' Network. But she said she felt the therapy sessions were ruined by the presence of a transgender woman (stock image)
Sarah, who is now married and in her 40s, requested a support group for those who were born female but said the organisation ‘made it really
