A SA charity in the UK will now run a women-only group excluding trans and non-binary survivors, following a legal battle brought by a cis woman known as "Sarah Surviving" who said she didn’t feel safe in a group with a trans woman. “Sarah” sued the Brighton-based charity for discrimination in 2022 “because it refused to provide a women-only peer support group”, she wrote on a crowdfunding page to support the case. At the time of the case, Survivors’ Network stood by the trans community and said trans women were welcome into its “women-only spaces” and would defend the legal claim. It was set to go to trial in September this year. However, following the UK Supreme Court’s ruling delivered on 16 April 2025, that held the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex, the Survivors’ Network and Sarah have now stated in a “Legal Challenge Update” that they have since come to an agreement outside of court, and will run a new peer support group solely for cisg...