"Activists call for inquiry into rape crisis centre trans appointment"

[PandorasMailbox]

An inquiry is long overdue. I see the comments are turned off (again)

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f85dcf9a-9430-11ec-bcf4-9dde9b8243da?shareToken=ea32172e21a2952556da2c3db5c9bf98

Good, this needs to happen. And yes, annoying that they keep turning the bloody comments off. If ever the public's thoughts on something needed to be seen, it was in regard to this very hot issue.

Excellent. Let's hope the appointment in Edinburgh will be disallowed.

They also need to look into the links with Sturgeon and Wadhwa's husband.

There's so much to unpack.

grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/mridrul-wadha-sacro-and-the-14-million?utm_source=url

I would guess that the rush with the GRA amendments is down to the recent legal ruling and I suggest that lack of reporting in the media means either no interest or the end of democracy.

The Four Horsemen of the apocalypse riding through the Scottish Parliament (sorry but I like a bit of hyperbole)

I suspect if the pressure for transparency gets too much, Wadhwa will quietly step down and hope it all goes away. Especially if there's an inquiry into any financial irregularities.

I did wonder if this could be done after the case last week. I hope that a decision can be made that defines the law so that this situation doesn’t happen again. That where sex matters, no conflation is possible.

@PandorasMailbox

I suspect if the pressure for transparency gets too much, Wadhwa will quietly step down and hope it all goes away. Especially if there's an inquiry into any financial irregularities.

Or claim harassment, bullying and transphobia

That's practically a given @ScreamingMeMe

In fact, I'd be more amazed if they didn't.

I read that, Pandora, and it's very revealing. Well worth reading. You can see the corruption.

Tick tock

It is usually the financial issues that shine a light on things in the end . Nobody cares about women.

Lovely late winter sunlight blazing through.

@endofagain

It is usually the financial issues that shine a light on things in the end . Nobody cares about women.

Sadly true.

Excellent.

When that one's done, perhaps they can then inquire into the ethics of 'the price of receiving services is to submit to political brainwashing'.

@Artichokeleaves

Excellent.

When that one's done, perhaps they can then inquire into the ethics of 'the price of receiving services is to submit to political brainwashing'.

Or, to put it more nakedly, 'one man has raped your body, now you must consent to let another rape your mind'.

Ain't that the truth.

@PandorasMailbox

I suspect if the pressure for transparency gets too much, Wadhwa will quietly step down and hope it all goes away. Especially if there's an inquiry into any financial irregularities.

I think any politician assuming that will be their get-out clause might discover, to their cost, that they’ve quite misjudged the position.

Wadhwa strikes me as someone who is unlikely to step down quietly from anything and certainly not to save anyone else’s skin.

He might if the financial irregularities concern his husband.

@PandorasMailbox

He might if the financial irregularities concern his husband.

Possibly, though there doesn’t look to be much more than speculation there. There has been a general policy throughout the UK to remove women only services and replace them with companies which cater less to abused women, and more towards cheaper, less targetted assistance to both sexes. Something similar happened to RISE in Brighton, so it’s not a unique policy.

That there’s bad decision making occurring in Scotland is not in doubt. Whether that decision was in any meaningful way connected to Wadhwa is much harder to ascertain.

You may be right though. My comment was mostly related to the Times article in your first post.

Excellent news. It's dreadful situation for female sexual violence survivors in Edinburgh.