New CEO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis

One of the problems with legal challenges is they are so expensive. For women scotland has one on the go. It's cost so much already.

The equal boards legislation has a strange definition of what a woman is, but the way Scots law works, you can't extrapolate from that to other legislation afaik

Upthread someone posted the link to the archive application pack which included the phrase statement about being women only under the EA (although web page didn't say this).

So there may be two different things going on here. One of which is, I thought Scotland had effectively changed the definition of what a woman was in relation to ??? being discussed in the Scottish Parliament.

Alternatively the implementation of women only is where it is shown there is a genuine need for this. Could this mean that the advertisers, ie ERC could say well in fact given the "experience" of the candidate we dont need to evoke the genuine need as this candidate has shown it isn't necessary.

But either way I think they should be challenged for false advertising. I wonder is any other applicants would be willing to do so?

But overall this is part of the push by those who want to make it a fact that self identity is as valid as being born female.

So this isn't just about the individual who wants to show this / be this but about all those around who are willing to be part of it.

And it seems Scotland has gone far further than any other part of the UK.

I hope there is a legal challenge rather than some twitter spat which 90% of the population will never see.

SO racist. At some point these woke idiots will understand why.

You're more optimistic than me!

Though I take the point already mentioned by others, that discrimination on the basis of gender is more appropriate as a sex-based suit would fail.

I hope a man who could have applied, but didn’t because of the single-sex exception invoked, sues for sex-based discrimination. Unfortunately no-one will take the female applicants’ or service users’ concerns seriously.

Don’t know why my post was deleted - I was very careful to say “male”

Existing archive here: archive.is/lc9w3

It's easy to do yourself - just go to archive.is and paste in the URL.

[quote R0wantrees]Important thread by Sarah Stuart:
twitter.com/sarahstuartxx/status/1297441056003444738[/quote]

Can anyone archive this please?

PPs have already linked to the older Wings Over Scotland pieces about this individual, but new excoriating one up on the whole mess.

What it is to be kind

So we’re making a plea from the heart. Spoil your constituency paper, readers. For children, for women, for gay people, for Scotland and for kindness.

I guess men really got on board with the 'if you can't beat them, join them' idea.

I've seen MC laugh about 'terfs'.
Really would not be voting for her tbh. Mind you, people generally don't.

Edinburgh Rape Crisis' chief operating officer is Maggie Chapman who used to be co-convener of the Greens before the even nuttier Lorna Slater took over. She is standing as a candidate again this year. This is the wonderful Joan McAlpine asking her if she thinks women can have penises.
twitter.com/ScotlandTonight/status/1131668625541214210?s=20

I haven't get got my head around the legal effect if any of the purported reliance the Genuine Occupational Requirement exception except that it may mean that a better qualified man who was overlooked for the job might have a claim for discrimination on the grounds of (lack of) gender reassignment.

A country that cannot give a raped woman whatever the fuck she wants to make her circumstances a bit less shit is not a civilised country.

I suppose the only consolation is that funding is being pulled from women's shelters in Scotland. Perhaps Mridul will be out of a job soon.

We need to rebuild our self funded shelters, don't we? Start again.

I am concerned that the Board members have the bare minimum of experience in this sector.

www.ercc.scot/about-us/meet-the-team/

So many necessary skills and experience is wholly absent. This leaves the organisation in a precarious position in terms of the ability to risk assess and put in place & maintain safeguearding.

When similar happened in Canada (and the key difference was that the organisation said no) it led to 12 years of court battles:

www.feministcurrent.com/2012/05/14/rape-relief-v-nixon-transphobia-and-the-value-of-women-only-space-an-interview-with-lee-lakeman/

www.ercc.scot/ceo-vacancy/

This was Joan's tweet at the time. I remember seeing MW's reply claiming it was involuntary

Thankyou. It really does seem that this individual is unsuited to the job regardless of their sex.

If we cannot talk about sex we cannot tackle sexism and sex based violence.

I did a sharp intake of breath when I saw the reference to BME women after trans. It's incredibly racist.