To think that the CEO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis should be fired?

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This is an absolute nightmare of a case. If you've not been aware of it before now it's time to wake up and take a hard look at what is happening in women's support services across the UK. There seems to be a concerted effort to dismantle women's boundaries and withdraw support from vulnerable women who need spaces away from men.

It's appalling that they were even appointed in the first place.

He should never have been hired.

YANBU, should never have been in the position as is totally unsuited to working with vulnerable women, but now they really need to get rid.

Yes. He should never have been hired.

Man larping as a woman, telling women how to woman.

YANBU

So nice to see MC supporting the rights of women. Considering she read biology at university you’d think she’d know better than to accept the rubbish that tw+w.

Absolutely agree with you.
He should have never been hired in the first place.

The fact that he was hired in the first place shows how to the core the rot is. This story just reminds us why. He needs to get gone immediately.

Yanbu
it was a travesty he was hired in the first place

YANBU a man should never have been appointed to that post. This man seemed particularly unsuited to meeting the needs is rape victims.

He should and the Board should also resign

however given how ineffective & inexperienced the Board were & are, I expect they’ll do nothing, agree amongst themselves that the judge must be a ‘TERF’ and MW will resign in a few months time, no doubt falling upwards into a political job

He was exemplifying one of the rules of misogyny - a man is whatever he says he is, and a woman is whatever a man says she is.

@RachelGreensHair , your diversity lead is an idiot. I recommend starting a new thread so your question doesn’t get lost in this one.

@RachelGreensHair that sounds appalling! Might be better to start a separate thread on it to get some proper advice?

A rape crisis centre being run by a man who refuses to accept a woman saying no and uses his power to force his will on her. Absolutely disgusting.

From one of the other stories at the archive link:
In 2021 Wadhwa, a trans woman, told The Guilty Feminist podcast that any “bigoted” rape survivors who objected to being counselled by someone who was born a man should expect to be “challenged on your prejudices” if they sought help from Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre.

I’m stunned that he got the job in the first place, as the Gender Recognition Act clearly allows exemptions in cases like this, where an actual woman is needed.

But the fact that he could show such stunning contempt for rape survivors, and still keep his job, shows there is something very wrong with ERCC. It is obviously riddled with misogyny. Extraordinary in an organisation supposedly set up to help rape survivors.

This is exactly right.

Exactly! How anyone can’t see the irony is unbelievable.

Not only should Madhwa get fired so should the people who hired him.

He should never have been hired in the first place, both because he's a man and also because of his incredibly misogynistic and plain dodgy ideas about rape and sexual violence.

And still so many people refuse to see that women are under attack from all angles.