Katie Dolatowski up in court again

Thank you Leeds Resisters.

Thanks, Leeds Resisters.

Leeds Resisters protest at the Leeds Civic Hall, Weds 16th 12 - 13:00. It is amazing how little this was covered in local press…

twitter.com/leedsresisters/status/1592174492713127936?s=21&t=Ats5Ip3t9Hn3IG-mfq9Jng

I know that I tend to get frustrated with WA / Refuges, but the reality is this is being caused by the trans agenda, and also it is ikely projects have complied because of threats of funding cuts.

Although as time passes it is more and more likely that employees and volunteers will be projects of the trans right culture in schools, universities and main stream media. And we know local authorities have already been captured and hold the purse strings.

Somehow refuges need to connect with a support network of local women, and local women need to step forward to be that support.

'Please be assured we could not be taking this any more seriously. We are working with Leeds Women’s Aid as we review both local and national procedures, and will be exploring additional security mechanisms and recommendations for members across the federation in light of this incident.'

I can give them a rec that would instantly make all refuges about 98% safer.

Women's Aid Federation have now also made a statement. www.womensaid.org.uk/womens-aid-statement-member-service-incident/

The language is oblique.

But surely this (along with others) is a perfect example of why the prohibition of using "dead names" is not safe. Isn't there a campaign on at the moment pointing out this is a loophole that can be exploited.

But also sad to see that allowing individual WA Refuge's have their own policies on whether they offer services to trans women and whether that is based on self id, or gender reassignment service, just erodes women's rights under the equality act to single sex provision.

Also, the Women's Aid directory of the individual refuges that are part of the federation should be explicit in listing whether their service is open to trans women.

Leeds Women's Aid listing doesn't seem to mention this.

Oh, bugger. I tried to star out the pronous to avoid deletion and it's fucked it. Sorry.

'Mridul Wadhwa has spent well over a decade working in the women’s sector. In that time *’s actively pushed an agenda that allows males into what used to be female-only services, ostracising and denigrating the women who protest.

Meanwhile, *s partner was, until a few months ago, the director of a company which hoovered up the lucrative million pound contracts when these women’s services were cut off from public funding because of their female-only policies.'

grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/mridrul-wadha-sacro-and-the-14-million

Ooh they are not suggesting that organisations should have the right to know the "deadname" of a laydeee so they can checkvhes not a paedophile using parading as female as a nonce screen!

Oh HOW TRANSPHOBHIC.

I wonder why there are no better pics of this person available. No FB or Instagram account? Are mug shots not taken in Scotland?

@ArabellaScott I will have to Google Sacro. But thank you for the background and the alternative charity suggestion. The NIA group look appear more sensible.

Seems like this man’s right to call himself a woman overrides the safety of actual women and girls.

There is a shared garden…

Yeah something doesn’t match up here.

Leeds Women’s Aid Statement:

On 9th September 2022, a resident at the Leeds Domestic Violence Service (LDVS) refuge run by Leeds Women’s Aid (LWA) was taken into police custody. The individual had used an identity, and related official documents in the same name, to access the refuge, and in doing so they concealed their previous convictions for child sex offences.

Once the person’s true identity and crimes were revealed, we alerted the police and the individual was taken into custody. At no time were we aware of their previous identity or crimes.

LWA is taking this extremely seriously and we are undertaking a thorough investigation. We have not found evidence of any crimes having been committed during the period when the person was resident with us.

LWA has been an established and highly regarded service for the last 50 years. The safety of service users and staff is paramount and the appropriate support is being put in place. LWA’s priority remains victims-survivors, and we want all survivors to be able to access the support they need when accessing domestic abuse services.

Nik Peasgood, Chief Executive of LWA, said, “We are appalled that someone with such crimes could come to a women’s refuge using a different identity. We are aware that a criminal using authenticated identification could access any housing provider’s services, and we are not unique in being manipulated in this way.

We have informed children’s services and are working with our closest stakeholders, including Leeds City Council and Women’s Aid Federation England, and will share any learning with our sector in order to improve safety of victims-survivors.”

leedswomensaid.co.uk/leeds-womens-aid-statement-nov-22/

They work throughout London, looks like: niaendingviolence.org.uk/

I know that several specific Women's Aid refuges lost funding to 'gender neutral' service providers.

Some of whom happened to be funded by Sacro. Mridhul Wadhwa's husband is on the board of Sacro. Mridhul is of course the male who runs Rape Crisis Edinburgh.

I believe NIA maintain a single sex refuge.

To be fair to Women's Aid, those that have tried to maintain single sex spaces have risked being defunded.

Absolutely.

We are appalled that someone with such crimes could come to a women’s refuge using a different identity.

So appalled that you are going to, idk, do something about it?

We have left a very very generous bequest to Women’s Aid in our joint wills.

Deliberately placing a sex offender in a women’s hostel has made me FURIOUS.

I’ll need to re-do our wills. Fuckssake. It’s a pain but they won’t get a single penny more from our family either monthly, one off, bequests, Christmas donations nothing. Those poor poor children.

I wonder if there are other charities who are (no longer?) captured by this bullshit. Food banks, maybe? I’ll have to research.

It's quite sad that this could be a solution. Refuge spaces for transmen and transwomen survivors of domestic violence- it just needs to be a separate space physically from other survivors, particularly vulnerable women and children.

That brave girl in Morrisons, bless her. Nicola needs to give her own head a wobble.

Oh they probably will, but will have poor, vulnerable KD at the forefront, and how mean it is of the women to be scared and complain.

It is bloody obvious that this is a bloke. I don't care what name he has changed to, he shouldn't have been allowed in.