I think I've figured out why the Guilty Feminists feel guilty...

NO woman should feel she has to be "re-educated" to get a place in a rape crisis/womans refuge. What a sick idea. And what the fuck - you have to be "the right kind of rape victim" - do you have to pass a test or something to gain a place. Its hard enough for women to access these places anyway, without making it some kind of requirement that they hold the correct ideology. Imagine if it was the case that to have a life saving operation in hospital, you had to mouth the correct platitudes. People like MW, just exert this kind of power because they can get away with it.

Podcast response
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I’ve said it before on another thread (but can’t remember which). While this is wrong on many levels the one I have most problem with is that now only the “right” kind of rape victim can access the service. Someone suitably educated in modern sexual/gender identity and with the language to navigate it appropriately. So not elderly women who have no social media, not school girls with little world experience, not the vulnerable due to drugs or alcohol or homelessness, not people from conservative families … I could go on. Those people need “re-educated” first before they can talk about their trauma. Despite getting over the mat of the door being a massive issue in the first place.

Vile. Just fucking vile.

I don't understand why DFW & co can't see how horribly inappropriate the whole thing is.

Sacrificing vulnerable women to validate an identity. Makes me feel physically sick and so very upset and angry.

Sickening

Who benefits, Wadhwa, who? You, or the service user? You, or the traumatised woman?

Anyone care to remind us what professional qualifications Wadhwa has? I seem to recall it was none, but maybe I'm wrong.

"Reframe your trauma."

The only time it can ever be acceptable to guide a woman to reframe her trauma is if it would be therapeutically beneficial for her.

As ever when we come upon TRA demands, we need to ask: who benefits?

Who benefits, Wadhwa, who? You, or the service user? You, or the traumatised woman?

Reframe your trauma to validate trans ideologues. Fuck right off.

Edinburgh Rape Crisis is not fit for purpose.

Trying to listen to the podcast now. It is making me feel ill.

The complete ignorance that it is ALL post pubescent males who are capable of this violence is beyond concerning. There are NO sacred groups in this regards. None.

This agenda that transwomen are somehow not capable or just as high a risk is dangerous.

We only have to look at Vancouver Rape Relief, pursued through the courts of Canada for 12 years for being the only rape refuge in Vancouver that wouldn't employ an MTF trans person as a rape counsellor, to see the parallels, and it is fairly clear to me why many MTF trans activists want to insert themselves into this sector, and it isn't because they care about women.

Final straw for me. Unsubscribing. Doesnt want to make trans people feel unsafe but quite happy to do that to women. Why does dfw have such a blind spot for this? Yes theyve had trans guests - one was awful and dull and the other (Kate?) did raise some interesting points which certainly made me consider points I hadnt before.

I tweeted the Guilty Feminist about this. Had a few likes for my tweet but also this reply from a transwoman:

"Yes, reframe your trauma. lol ts not trans women harming cis women, it’s cis men."

Lol! WTF? How can anyone have the audacity to write "lol" on a thread about sexual trauma?

Next time pronouns cause a hate crime incident I suggest they reframe their trauma.

Quite.

Fucking hell. One would think being a CEO of a Rape Crisis centre would require a level of empathy with service users... apparently not.

Shonagh Dillon's PhD thesis (available for free download) casts some much-needed light on the interpretation of Stonewall's survey about women-only services (like RCS). It's a persuasive account for how we find ourselves in the current circumstances.

Title: #TERF/Bigot/Transphobe’ – ‘We found the witch, burn her!’ A contextual constructionist account of the silencing of feminist discourse on the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004, and the policy capture of transgender ideology, focusing on the potential impacts and consequences for female-only spaces for victims of male violence.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4287881-Congratulations-Shonagh-Dillon-for-Defending-Your-PhD-TERF-Bigot-Transphobe-We-found-the-witch-burn-her?msgid=108769551

And it particularly hurt not to be able to use male pronouns in that post, because this is very socially male behaviour I am talking about.

vile. just vile.

I could see it going this way when MW first got appointed. Thought MW and supporters would see it as a way to push their revolting beliefs that women`s feelings dont matter and men should be parachuted into womens spaces. Depressing that its happened though.

The fact that MW also thinks that certain rape victims should be castigated for wrong think is yet another marker as to why this person is beyond unsuitable for the role they have.