Minister for Equalities invites Mridul Wadhwa to meeting to discuss LGBT+ hate crime

It has indeed been deleted, but LWD and others are rightly calling for a review.

This is interesting, it's noticeable at our local school as well, and not just for boys. What I notice, however, is that it's not really related to any particular viewpoint on sexuality, even the ones who are kind of artsy-fartsy and woke use it.

It's like it's been shorn to a large extent of the meaning, I suppose similarly to how it had lost the older meaning before. It mainly seems predicated on being contrary to the language diktats of the authority figures, that is, the teachers and school admin.

It has - obviously they finally woke up to his badly it was going down though no doubt she was say it was due to 'abuse' or 'hate' 🙄

OMG literal erasure!

I think this has been deleted now?

Wtaf?? 🤬

Wadhwa is on the list for the area, not a main candidate, and not at the top which means he is unlikely to be elected.

What kind of chance do the Greens have in that seat? Please say a non-existent one

Good christ above.

It gets worse for those of us in the north I'm afraid. Wadhwa is standing for election in Edinburgh and Lothians East. For the Scottish Green Party, naturally.

The F-ing audacity of this bloke who is clearly determined to exert control over women. The Greens' list is a rogue's gallery, and people will vote for them because they think they are harmless tree-huggers.

I never ever thought it would be a possibility for me but I will probably either spoil my ballot again (by writing “adult human female” ) or I might just have to put a ❌ beside the conservative candidate.

The icing on the cake - Bridget Phillipson's Social Media Muffin has reposted it!

Isn't there some respectable transwoman living a quiet life in Sevenoaks or somewhere, who they can have on standby to go up to Whitehall when a Minister wants to have a photocall with alphabet community stakeholders?

It reflects a lack of self awareness or ego - he must know he's going to attract negative attention, but can't step aside for a Mx Respectable. Or even wanting to signal the inconditional support he has from the government.

Oh FFS. Has anyone told any of the Equalities ministers there are nine legally protected groups, plus a fair few other disadvantaged ones that are not legally protected (class, many carers) all of whom would merit their attention? Most don’t seem to have progressed beyond the most vulnerable 🤦‍♀️

The Greens x
The Lib Dem’s x
Reform x
Your Party x
Any Party that doesn’t respect me x

I will be spoiling my vote by voting Conservative 😂

I think it is deliberate.

I think it is clearly saying to women we dont care what you think.

We dont care that he broke the law.

He was invitied because we want you to know we are never ever going to listen to women who drone on about sex based rights as your vulnerablity is nothing compared to trans people the most oppressed people in the world.

So, Labour saw the outcry and rage Wadhwa created in Scotland and the damage it did to the SNP, and thought - we'll have some of that?

Sorry I misread the OP title. It didn't say Women - it did say Equalities.

Her Government post is:
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
Department for Education

She's a junior minister, mostly in education but also has the junior equalities brief under Bridget Phillipson, with a particular focus on LGBT. So I'd be interested to know if or how she's fed into the slow walking of the EHRC guidance.

She seems to belong to that common group in the political world, a lesbian who doesn't know what a woman is.

Oh, it's possible. Far, far too many MPs are baselessly self-confident eejits with all the curiosity & observational skills of tooth powder.

I agree with all the comments about how the hell did this man get invited. Even accepting such a meeting is needed - surely even the most hard bitten TRA would have thought maybe not put his name and face in the public domain. Wont do our reputation any good. Or mabye they think it does. Maybe they think macho posturing is a win win for TRAs.

Disgusted.

Also agree with where was the representation of L&G? Just a further example of how the T cuckoo has pushed the founders of the user not just to the sidelines but out of the nest.

Horrific.

But just to add, Olivia B is not the minister for women, nor on the WEC and according to AI not on any committee.

So what was the meeing, and what was its purpose.

Does anyone know.

Because it would be good to send feedback to who ever it is.

If the Minister is having a meeting with stakeholders, especially one that's gonig to have publicity photos, there will be a list of people attending along with thumbnail bios.

The Minister herself may or may not read the bios, but her spad certainly will. There have been enough controversies in recent years, yea even in recent weeks, about Labour Ministers being photographed alongside people with controversial backstories. There is no way on god's green earth that they didn't know about Wadhwa and precisely why he's controversial.

Isn't there some respectable transwoman living a quiet life in Sevenoaks or somewhere, who they can have on standby to go up to Whitehall when a Minister wants to have a photocall with alphabet community stakeholders?

How the fuck is he still being entertained in the political sphere? Surely there are transwomen without a controversial backstorey out there?

I've never considered myself a single issue voter, on balance would probably have voted labour at the next election, despite everything. But this is so utterly tone deaf. Three blokes in dresses, and to include Wadhwa. Utterly tone deaf. If she doesn't know his past, she should, if she does know his past it's unforgivable. I think I'll be voting Tory, Labour women are utterly without a spine, or they believe in things I can never, ever accept. A plague on them all.