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LYNNE WALSH reports from the international feminist FiLiA conference, which took place in Salford last weekend

FROM a programme packed with speakers, survivors and sisterhood, there’s one short sentence that stays with me.
A young woman told the audience of years of neglect, abuse and grooming. In the session “Failed by the State,” Zoe (not her real name) said: “I was groomed in the womb.”
“As soon as you know the sex of a baby,” she went on, “all the gender stereotypes start applying.”
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