Mridul Wadhwa: Forth Valley Rape Crisis

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I believe this individual has been discussed previously.

They are a transwomen. They recently disclosed on twitter (now deleted) that when they applied for the job to run the centre they did not disclose their sex. (It is likely, though unconfirmed that this position would have been advertised as a female only post). Archive here: archive.ph/UErrk

They have also discussed their role here where they describe how they are a wife and mother, and how important it is that the rape crisis centre is women only.

Surely any decent human being would realise that this is a role that should go to a women and not apply in the first place? The motivation of a transwoman deciding that this is the sort of area they want to to work in concerns me.

Focusing on orgasm in rape is an unusual approach for a rape crisis manager.

studentnewspaper.org/an-insight-with-mridul-wadhwa-into-working-in-a-rape-crisis-centre/?fbclid=IwAR3GVW-Brc7bnpBwxIAVcIiEsBHYKK5xN-uYSK1V4HVRa9SBaQ52v3G_U1I

The Student asked Wadhwa if she believes a man could be a successful rape crisis centre manager. She does not: “I don’t think men are ready to go out and set up services of this nature. Women’s aid organisations and rape crisis centres have been set up with the blood, sweat, and tears of women. It’s about the women’s experience of sexual violence. Our workforce is reserved for women only.”

Beggars belief.

The Student asked Wadhwa [who was born male] if she believes a man could be a successful rape crisis centre manager. She does not: “I don’t think men are ready to go out and set up services of this nature. Women’s aid organisations and rape crisis centres have been set up with the blood, sweat, and tears of women. It’s about the women’s experience of sexual violence. Our workforce is reserved for women only.”

Is delusion the right word?

Got installed and in a position of some influence... and then (and only then) Wadhwa suddenly realised that transactivism was important to Wadhwa.

The pattern of under the radar underpinning so many things.

no more than calling themself "mother", Crone?

This is exactly what women have been saying we are worried about - males masquerading as women in order to access female only spaces.

The only person who thinks this is fine is Mridwul.

Another thought... suspect this might be another buster of the myth the idea that transactivism only became problematic due to recent influences and that ”real trassexuals” are not the problem.

Is delusion the right word?

Duping delight is the right words.

Seems Wadhwa has deleted Wadhwa's Twitter account, where these discussions took place.

“I don’t think men are ready to go out and set up services of this nature. Women’s aid organisations and rape crisis centres have been set up with the blood, sweat, and tears of women. It’s about the women’s experience of sexual violence. Our workforce is reserved for women only.”

That is some brass neck.

Women's accounts get deleted by trans activists to silence the women and trans activists' accounts get deleted by trans activists when they realise they're making themselves look bad.

It's not exactly two sides of the same coin is it?

that student newspaper link now seems to be down....

Wow. One of the examples given for occupational exceptions in the EA is:

A counsellor working with victims of rape might have to be a woman and not a transsexual person, even if she has a Gender Recognition Certificate, in order to avoid causing them further distress.

See section 789

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/notes

BernardBlacksWineIceLolly it seems to work when the extra stuff is taken out from the URL.

studentnewspaper.org/an-insight-with-mridul-wadhwa-into-working-in-a-rape-crisis-centre/

I saw a documentary where MW compared being harassed in the street as being fired at with bullets. MW also said that MW was a mother in the intro. I struggled to watch it for many reasons but one was because I couldn't get the mother of their children out of my head.

If one was working in the field and women said that male bodied people made them uncomfortable that response should be respected. I just cannot imagine how someone supposed to be there to support women would ignore the distress of women who are by definition in a vulnerable position.

Wadhwa has been discussed on here before. She has said that she is primarily interested in the needs of BAME/ PoC ethnicities. 96% of the population of Scotland is white. That 96% is skewed by Glasgow, and to a lesser extent , Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. The area covered by Forth Valley will have at least 96% white population.

And trans issues, I seem to remember. Astoundingly enough.

If this person was genuine, why not work with transwomen who need shelter & protection-or work with transwomen within the prison service? They have no place in a womens refuge.

It's not right, that. I would not want to see that person. Deceitful.

Also on the Board of YWCA Scotland www.ywcascotland.org/about-us/meet-the-board/mridul-wadhwa/

And yes, most links seem to now be down or deleted.

Previous mumsnet thread Rape Crisis Centre 'likes' tweet calling women hateful bigots www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3580174-Rape-Crisis-Centre-likes-tweet-calling-women-hateful-bigots

the Select Committee paper linked there is an interesting read. Discussing single sex exemptions, where different views were offered, including those that supported single sex spaces in refuges:

'30.Mridul Wadhwa told us that the provision was:

discriminatory to transsexual people especially trans women. I genuinely believe that there is no space for it in the gender-based violence sector and that it has no place in violence against women work. I was unaware of its existence until a few weeks ago. I have worked in the violence against women sector since 2005 and have never known for it to be used. I am disappointed to think that someone has the right to refuse work to me and others like me in my sector just because they think that I might not be a woman.'

The newspaper article that seems to have disappeared has been archived here:
<a class="break-all" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190406144503/studentnewspaper.org/an-insight-with-mridul-wadhwa-into-working-in-a-rape-crisis-centre/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">web.archive.org/web/20190406144503/studentnewspaper.org/an-insight-with-mridul-wadhwa-into-working-in-a-rape-crisis-centre/

^30.Mridul Wadhwa told us that the provision was:

discriminatory to transsexual people especially trans women. I genuinely believe that there is no space for it in the gender-based violence sector and that it has no place in violence against women work. I was unaware of its existence until a few weeks ago. I have worked in the violence against women sector since 2005 and have never known for it to be used. I am disappointed to think that someone has the right to refuse work to me and others like me in my sector just because they think that I might not be a woman.'^

If I articulated exactly how this person makes me feel I would probably be banned.

This person came to my attention a year or so back. They seemed to have got the post for personal validation reasons rather than to help the young women of Forth Valley. They had been in a ? tV programme where they did lots of hair tossing and discussed how important ethnic minority women are. Forth Valley women are 95% white. They are in the wrong job.