New CEO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis

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I struggled to even come up with a title for this thread as I am so enraged I know I will get deleted and even banned if I say what I really think.

twitter.com/EdinRapeCrisis/status/1389112490215288832?s=20

I thought this was a joke... I absolutely don't have the words to describe my disappointment in this. Women will always be trampled over by men who are eager to appear like box ticking inclusives.

ArabellaScott

Thanks for that link, I think the proverbial is well and truly going to hit the fan when this is more widely known. I think it is a definite breach of the EA 2010.

Yes, incredible and absurd.

There needs to be a national outcry about this. It’s absolutely unbelievable.

So is there something we can do about this?

If anyone has any sound ideas about who to write to with our concerns, I’m right there. Sadly I’m not in Scotland, and I’ll hold my hands up to not knowing all that much about the charitable sector.

I'm a woman in Scotland and would also like some ideas as to what more I can do. I have already written to Edinburgh Rape Crisis to express my disbelief/upset/anger (I don't even know how best to describe how I feel about this - flattened?).

Voting is on Thursday. I absolutely will not support the SNP. I've never voted Tory before, should I start now? I feel like I can't vote for any of these people. I'm lost and confused with this, but I will vote. Does anyone have any advice for me on this?

I know I am preaching to the converted but everytime something like this happens I think surely this is the moment people at least start to question things and start realising that it is something that people (women) have reasons for their concerns. Instead it is more digging their heels in and yelling transphobes. There doesn't even seem to be the ability to separate the concerns about this individual from their trans status. Surely one can believe TWAW and still think 'ouch, that's not the best person for the role given their recent doings.'

I will no more vote for the SNP than I will grow a penis and go for being the first man on Mars.

I will do whatever it takes to try to stop these fuckers getting in.

@Huggybear16 I had a similar dilemma. I sent off my postal vote yesterday and for the first time in my life I voted Conservative. Truly, they seem to be the only party who are sure what a woman is, and still have some respect for women's sex-based rights.

I'm distraught at the idea that the SNP and the Greens will hold all the power, and we all know they will use it against us. This awful appointment at the ERCC just demonstrates the problem.

Not saying I've suddenly become an ardent Tory (I haven't), but desperate times call for desperate measures. If we lose our rights, how many years will it take us to fight to get them back?

In the twitter thread linked to by a PP above - twitter.com/sarahstuartxx/status/1297452001291362304 (Sarah Stuart's The lies they tell) - it is reported that MW told an 'amusing' anecdote to the audience at an event they were speaking at... in it , they call themselves a 'mother of two' and say their children are fostered/adopted (it's not quite clear). They describe how they were called by a concerned headteacher, because one of the children (age 6/7) had been overheard taking to another child about 'how his mum's penis had been decapitated'. MW had laghed and asked the headteacher what the problem was.
I can tell you what I think the problem is - that it is totally inappropriate to have been talking to a vulnerable young child about the issue in the first place. I wonder who instigated the conversation?
MW seems convinced that they pass totally as a woman, so why even talk to the child in this way? Presuambly the young child did not know that their foster mum was male? Or is it blindingly obvious even to a child?

Apologies for repeating myself but if anyone in Scotland is thinking of writing to anyone I'd suggest the Edinburgh Joint Integration Board - they are listed on the original job advert as funding this CEO post, and appears to have as its board members some actual grown ups who may be receptive to questions about due process, legality, safe guarding, reputations damage, appropriateness of trustees etc etc. The board of the rape crisis centre itself appears a lost cause.

The chair of the Edinburgh Joint Integration Board is Angus McCann and is on Twitter here twitter.com/ehealthangus?s=21

And the details of who they are is here www.edinburghhsc.scot/the-ijb/eijb-board-members/

This is unbelievable! Shocking how Scotland has been captured by Stonewall. If anyone has evidence of gender ideology being used in schools do send it my way. The Family Education Trust is compiling evidence on this indoctrination.

People to complain to are the funders (as mentioned above) also who they are registered with as a charity (is it different in Scotland) and possibily other funders of the project just on the basis on good management ie advertising post being for women only as under EA and then going against that advertising. And also as I mentioned earlier Scottish Women's Aid assuming that ERC is a member organisation and their behaviour reflects badly on the RC network.

re timing of resignation of board members - you actually would need to look back and see when they were appointed. some trustee posts are only for a limited period (so that people dont get their feet under the table and start thinking it is their little fiefdom. Or it could have been that 2/3 years ago there was a crisis in management and a lot left. Not giving them a let out but way of jumping to conclusions.

Would be interesting to see the ads for the trustee vacancies. I wonder if they were advertised as being exempt under the EA?

Interestingly ERC have left their post on facebook up which has a large number of critical comments about their new CEO.

www.facebook.com/edinburghrapecrisis/photos/a.156340431121264/3978227878932481/?type=3&theater

Thank you @Tootsweets23, I did not see your previous post so I'm glad you did repeat yourself. Don't apologise for it, there are plenty like me that don't read the whole thread and miss important posts like this. I will use this info to reply to others on other platforms asking the same question.

I am so angry that things have gone as far as they have, not just with this case, but with the erasure of women in general. It's very unsettling that our refusal to conform to this is considered hateful.

Thank you for your reply @Lucienandjean. This is the most important issue for me right now. I don't agree with a lot of what the Conservatives have done recently, but this is too important, so I will vote accordingly. They are the only party who stand a chance against the SNP in my area.

I cant see all the facebook comments - only the lovefest

That's an interesting FB thread, Stumble

First comment I saw was from Emma Walker, who stood for Lib Dems here and then bailed because she was treated to the most appalling sexism. I see that Mridwul has taught her how to "use" her trauma?

Weaponising her trauma - where did I hear that before? Oh yes, from what the TRAs said about JKR.

Noted.

I think the start of the comments are the lovefest. Have you clicked show all comments? There are around 690 in total, and most are critical.

I wonder if you aren't signed into facebook that you wont see all comments because individual posters may have set their posts to private of something.

I’m not on fb - I can see the comments.

Some are absolute stotters.

Maybe - I'm trying to multitask just now so need to make myself a nice coffee, grab some chocolate and have a read.

Not sure if this MN thread has been linked to:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4071477-Mridul-Wadhwa-and-Rape-Crisis-Scotland

Which links to this Twitter thread:

twitter.com/hightreebud/status/1323965389144002562?s=20

Interesting reading.

People need to start being accountable. If heads start rolling - I cant see how this isn't gross misconduct. Breaking the law for starters is Very Naughty Indeed surely?

Some thoughts on the fact that Edinburgh Rape Crisis provide mixed sex services:

All victims of abuse should be able to access specialist services, and that includes men and boys. There is a question, though, whether women's services are the best option for them. Campaigners for abused men have highlighted how different the trauma reaction is in men.

This is a bit irrelevant here, however. Ed RC only provide services to young men and boys and those who do not identify as men - so transwomen and non-binary. I am struggling to understand why a young male who had been raped and sought help at this centre would be admitted or shown the door depending on pronouns. Because, unless I misunderstand, this is what they appear to be saying.

In which case, surely they are discriminating illegally? Non-binary is not legally defined.

They also say the female only times and spaces are open to all as identify as women. I cannot fathom how a rape crisis centre can be so wilfully cruel. I think trans people should be able to access services and I think groups like STA should put some of the chunks of money the gov throw at them towards starting services rather than leaning on the women's sector - maybe Mridul would be great at running services for them. But that isn't happening. Instead, vulnerable women are being chased out of spaces they desperately need.

That is very interesting reading LostToucan, thanks for highlighting that.

If anyone is interested in email ERC direct, their email address is [email protected]

ERC took down first tweet

Then put up same tweet but turned off replies

Still included BAME women in the tweet

Jeez how racist they are