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

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www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5dc99960-be22-448d-ae42-371a058dce7f?shareToken=810c030b858153875ba6f64bd858ed8d

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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.

The judgment is full of striking stuff:

10. Towards the end of her period working at the respondent the claimant became aware of a specific case where a woman in her 60s approached the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre and indicated she wished to take part in group work. She had kept secret for 40 years the fact that she had been sexually assaulted. She wished to meet other survivors as part of her recovery. The claimant was aware that during the course of her initial conversation she asked ERCC if they could reassure her that it was women only. She was advised that ERCC were trans inclusive and when she made clear that she was unhappy that she may be seeing someone who was not biologically female she was advised that she was not suitable for their service and was excluded from the service. The claimant was concerned that this meant that someone was effectively excluded from the services of the respondent for asking for a women’s only survivors group. She also became aware later in her time with the respondent that the respondent had a policy of not referring people in this situation to Beira’s Place which by this time was a sexual violence support centre set up specifically as a single sex space or as an organisation run by women for women.

In any event, wouldn't MW have had to present some form of ID on taking the job?

I could be remembering this wrong, but I’m sure I read somewhere that he didn’t actually apply for the job, but rather was offered it outright after attending a conference or event of some kind?

I remember this. That this male person expressed so much interest at women who orgasm during rape. There was SO much publicly available about this male person before they were hired, and yet, some panel hired them.

So many red flags.

FFS nauticant. This is horrific. I missed a lot of the tribunal but this is abhorrent.

Reddit r/Scotland

www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/s/f8C6KNavYO

WTH?

He has no relevant qualifications for it.

We need an enquiry into how he got it in the first place. I'm guessing Maggie Chapman placed some sort in that

Yes the same Maggie Chapman who thought children as young as six should be able to legally change 'gender'.

That's ... not the reaction I was expecting from Reddit at all.

Is the tide turning?

I notice that even the most militant of TRAs are largely keeping out of this.

Does everyone remember the early interview with Wahwa where he express wonder about his power over whether his actions allowed a family in the US to eat that night or not from his role in India answering calls in the call centre?

I always felt that this is a man who gets something from having power over women getting their needs met or not. That first interview that I heard and all the ones since has never shaken this suspicion.

I will see if I can dig up the interview link if it still exists.

I notice that even the most militant of TRAs are largely keeping out of this.

I was just wondering where the usual Mumsnet TWAW! regulars were seeing as this is remaining on AIBU.

I can’t post the link as you need to subscribe, but The Times reporting that he is under pressure to resign.

Please stop repeating this misinformation. People can lawfully be discriminated against on the basis if sex if there is a genuine occupational requirement for a man or a woman to do a job.

Mridul Wadhwa is a man. He does not have a GRC. No other man would have been considered for this job, therefore refusing to interview him would not have been discrimination.

Women are not objecting on the basis that he is trans but because he is a MAN. Stop trying to frame the objections as transphobia when that is not what is happening, its really dishonest.

• It's so much easier to write posts now we can call a man a man without getting deleted.

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Please stop repeating this misinformation. People can lawfully be discriminated against on the basis if sex if there is a genuine occupational requirement for a man or a woman to do a job.

It's worth remembering that at the time ERCC was actually claiming that they used this exception.

Apologies @FOJN meant to quote you

Didn't he suggest previously that rape victims should refrained their trauma 🤔

Reframe!

Finally, BBC are reporting
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ee39wn30xo.amp

The Times article:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-rape-boss-resign-mridul-wadhwa-2mqxshwq3

And helpful archive link to it: https://archive.ph/S6qgL

Basically says Wadwha's position is untenable and two directors (Miren Sagues, and Katie Horsburgh) have resigned, although Companies House says that Sagues resigned at the end of January this year and Horsburgh resigned on 8th May.

Nice blouse,shame there were none available in his size.

Mridul knew and should have had the integrity not to apply.

Contrast this, if you will, with the approach of the person currently answering questions on an AMA thread, who is female, presents male, and appears to take infinite care not to embarrass either female patients who might mistakenly believe her male, or male patients who have asked for same-sex care.

There is no genuine occupational requirement for a CEO of any organisation to be of one sex or another. 🤨

The objections to hiring a person as CEO on the basis of their sex are discriminatory.

Stop trying to frame my comment on sex discrimination as transphobia when that is not what is happening, that is really dishonest.

And Mridul had a near-infinite choice of jobs not requiring him to be female. The users of rape crisis centres have few choices of where to go for single-sex care, and MW didn't care about that at all.

Take it up with Rape Crisis, they are the ones who restricted the job to women only.