And more from that Quillette article;
Toward the end of her employment at the centre, Adams became aware that a woman in her 60s had approached the ERCC, seeking to join a therapy group in which she could talk for the first time about the fact that she’d been raped 40 years earlier. During her initial consultation, the woman had asked for an assurance that the centre was women-only. According to the judgment, “she was advised that ERCC [was] trans inclusive,” and when she said she was uneasy about seeing someone who was not biologically female, “she was advised that she was not suitable… and excluded from the service".
Meanwhile
For now, let’s start with Downing, who once served as an Equalities Officer for the SNP’s Edinburgh and London branches. In mid-July, he was found guilty of sexually assaulting six young adults. Downing was also convicted of physically attacking two women; and perpetrating domestic abuse against a man, whom he’d blackmailed into having sex over several months, by threatening to falsely accuse the victim of rape if he didn’t submit. His predatory behaviour had been going on for eight years, dating back to when he was just sixteen; and the judge presiding over his trial observed that Downing had shown “hostility towards women, lack of concern for others, sexual preoccupation, and deviant sexual preferences.”
Even as he was sexually abusing women, Downing was receiving counselling at the ERCC. The centre’s services were supposed to be reserved for female clients. But that wasn’t a dealbreaker, as Wadhwa had opened the doors wide to any man who claimed to be trans or “non-binary.” And since that latter category is completely undefinable (some might even say, imaginary) this effectively meant any man could come marching in simply by claiming to have exotic pronouns
And back to Wadhwa
As recently as 2019, he told a student newspaper that “I do see [sexual abuse] survivors—four a week, usually—who help me stay connected to the cause.” But what qualifications he possesses to do this work remains an open question, as neither his diploma in hotel management (from a college in India) nor his MSc in education from the University of Edinburgh would appear to be professionally pertinent.
Still unconvinced that Wadhwa didn't give a shit about women?
Though he wasn’t selected to stand for either of the two seats he’d applied for, Wadhwa was nevertheless featured on an SNP poster in Stirling wearing large earrings and his trademark sari. (He later left the party in protest when it backed a law allowing rape victims to ensure that their medical examinations would be conducted by someone of the same sex, whereupon Wadhwa transferred his allegiance to the Scottish Greens, whose fanatical embrace of trans activism has eclipsed even that of the SNP.)