Surely Mridul Wadhwa has to go now? Report into ERCC out.

Police Scotland recorded 14,602 incidents of sexual crime in 2022-23. 2,529 of these concerned rape or attempted rape and 5,282 were sexual assault. 94% of rape or attempted rape victims were female and 86% of sexual assault victims were female.

Just a reminder.

Thanks @ArabellaScott It's horrifying. I can't believe they infiltrated women's aid organisations like that and defunded ones providing single sex services. The absolute audacity of them. Our government are fucking evil. And culpable in all this. It wasn't just Maggie Chapman's hand that got MW into this position. Plenty of pictures of him with the 'real' feminist Nicola sturgeon too. She's accountable too. And again, I see that the paedophile enabling organisation LGBTYS rearing it's head. When are they going to be investigated???

Riddled with this stuff and anxious to be seen as progressive

Think Maggie Chapman from the greens was involved in this hiring.

but he had also been involved in other centres

scotland is riddled with the stuff. From government down

He's gone. This (circled) feels significant from the BBC.

Just having a glance at Motherwell & District women's aid. They don't post much on X, but their last two posts, in 2022 and 2023 were about LGBTYS.

'Our service has been busy working hard for our silver LGBT youth Scotland Charter! We started this process in June 2022 and have been working to ensure our service is evolving and inclusive! '

x.com/DistrictAid

100% @Dumbledoreslemonsherbets and RCS have some nerve pointing out all the failings now when they were cheerleading MW's appointment and trying to silence anyone who spoke against it. This was all predictable; that the clear focus on ideology over support would cause problems, that someone so self-interested wouldn't make a good CEO, that appointing a male to this role wasn't right and wouldn't work long term. I don't feel sorry for MW but I do believe quite a number of people enabled this shit show, some very enthusiastically, and now expect getting rid of MW to fix it. I wonder how much they paid MW to go? It will show up in the Accounts for 24/25 so we'll find out by the end of next year if not before.

There were two women's services who lost funding which went to SACRO for 'gender inclusive' services instead. Monklands and Lanarkshire.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4175951-Monklands-Womans-Aid-lose-contract-given-to-gender-neutral-facilities

And of course there is the link to Mridhul Wadhwa's husband or partner who had links to SACRO.

Beeb article here. A brief mention of Beira’s Place (but no mention of the fact MW refused to signpost vulnerable women there).

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2edeyzz0xmo

This case has to have broader implications and the Government have to be tough and make sure it does, the phrase damaging already traumatised women has to be repeated every time they wobble and whitter on about the toxic debate. This is a Government that has pledged to reduce VAWG by 50%, single sex absolutely women only spaces and services are part and parcel of that and if they need to be reminded every hour of every day then they will have to be.

Local Authorities that refuse to comply and insist on gender rather than sex will have to have draconian measures taken against them until they do.

The time for asking nicely and expecting decency and reasonableness in return has long gone, imposition is the only route left now. Let's see if the current Government have the guts and strength to do so.

This. MW is awful, but let's not pretend he's the only one. He's definitely not. It's a feature of transideology, not a bug.

Of course LangCleg always used to say - if you create a group of people that is exempt from safeguarding rules then you attract abusers.

We used to know this in safeguarding, but it's seemingly been forgotten - or people have been forced to pretend it's not still true.

I wonder how many cases such as this we'll have before journalists are brave enough to join the dots.

I think there will probably be some raging on Twitter and Reddit though.

The outcome of the Employment Tribunal and the Judge's comments regarding Whadwa were very hard to spin and now this report just heaps more difficulties on top.

Our usual scolders avoid threads like this like the plague which tells me all I need to know about them.

What about the rape crisis centres in the UK that have been forced to close because they had a policy of sex rather than gender. Their local authorities withdrew funding. I'm thinking about Brighton. I'm not up to date with how that all panned out does anyone know? The broader implications of this case have an impact or was the most important area just getting rid of MW. The broader implications being a confirmation that women are entitled to single sex spaces and people who state that view and are sacked, are being discriminated against?

tumbleweed isn’t it??

the guardian are presumably still working out how to frame it so it’s women’s fault

I notice our usual scolders haven’t turned up on this thread to tell us off.

I keep hoping there'll be a watershed moment, but we really are going to have to fight every single tentacle aren't we?

Unfortunately, yes.

It is exhausting isn't it?. There are a number of other charities, the NHS, the civil service where men like this have been promoted and appear to use their power to enforce this ideology as opposed to doing their job.

I can think of some highly inappropriate medics using their trans status to promote the transitioning of children as an example. While really such a personal investment in a controversial ideology where the harm it does to children is now evident, should be seen as an immediate professional "conflict of interest" .

Good.
Pindrop silence from all the people who supported this.

“frankly it was obvious MW was an entirely unsuitable leader who they should never have employed in the first place.”

This is male person who from the very first opportunity showed how they thrived on having power over female people. I remember that interview, I think the first one Wadhwa gave way back, where Wadhwa told about the role in the call centre in India. And the delight of being in control of whether a woman calling from the USA would have food for her family that week.

Wadhwa was all about power over female people. The way that Wadhwa phrased Wadhwa’s answers was so concerning. And yet, organisations continued to employ this individual. Organisations that served female people in desperate need no less!

And whenever I see a conjunction of Scotland and jumpers, I always think of Celia Imrie saying this line in a sketch by Victoria Wood: "Oh dear, Morag, I've spat on my cardigan."

I may be paraphrasing. Can't remember the name of the sketch, either.

Some threads which have been resurrected might contain reports/recordings of the meeting you are thinking of.

Thank heavens he's gone, but what about the other enablers who put MW's glorious trans status and a junior member of staff's non-binary status above the needs of rape victims?

And does this mean that the Scottish government will now fund women only spaces? (As in actual women only spaces)