Times article Mridul Wadhwa placed on 'leave' in May.

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Well they kept that quiet.

Archive version of The Times article below.

"The chief executive of a rape crisis support centre has been put on leave pending an investigation into its “Kafkaesque” treatment of staff.

Mridul Wadhwa, a man who identifies as a woman, was sent home in May by the board of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) after being identified as the “invisible hand” behind a “heresy hunt” designed to force out Roz Adams, a counsellor with gender-critical views.

The outcry over Wadhwa’s behaviour intensified following the sentencing this week of Cameron Downing, a coercive and manipulative male sex offender, who identified as non-binary and claimed to have received extensive support from ERCC."

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Thanks for posting OP 👍

I’m glad to find out that, following the Tribunal judgement, someone is taking matters seriously and steps have been taken to investigate matters at ERCC.

But it would have been very reassuring to members of the public to have known about this enforced leave and investigation when it first happened back in May. The only people who benefit from silence on this development are Wadhwa and the ERCC board. I think this lack of public announcements demonstrates the lack of ability to put victims of sexual violence at the forefront of their work

It's all so grubby and behind closed doors, isn't it?

I'm astonished to see the language. A "man who identifies as a woman"? Now did that one slip through internal censorship or does it herald an actual policy change?

Yes, they certainly kept that quiet, i bet the bastard is getting paid, however I hope he is sacked, and Sandy Brindley, Maggie Chapman & all the other people who enabled him are dismissed from their various roles ASAP

Thanks for the link.

In a way, apart from the one (sginificant) comment from an insider about MW being on leave, its not much different from the Telegraph article of yesterday.

But again what an eye opener, that papers you would like to think are approaching the situation with expectations of due diligence etc., have not even followed this story up, and it is left to the Times and the Telegraph to show how adults / professionals should behave.

Also interesting the Scottish Rape Crisis is now getting involved (because of the latest revelantion?) but didn't at the time of the Roz Adams case.

You would like to think that Scottish Rape Crisis at all times would be on the alert to ensure that their member organisations are being run and providing servicies in lines with agreed standards. Not turn up after the event and say there should be an investigation.

And in fact, really strange that at the time Edinburgh RCC didn't issue a statement saying following court outcome CEO would be on leave until internal investigation completed. Instead just this we are so sad nonsense back in May https://www.ercc.scot/statement-from-edinburgh-rape-crisis-centre-board-of-directors/

Perhaps they're keeping quite about it because they're doing it 'by the book' because they don't want to give him grounds to take them to a Tribunal when they eventually sack this scummy, toxic, shitshow of a man.

The gender fanatics at ERCC, including Wadhwa’s many female acolytes, burnt all of their bridges with their zealotry. There’s no going back for these traitors to women. Hope a way is found to sack them all.

He would love to threaten a tribunal- he would allege bullying, sexism, racism, mega hurty feelings and and every other thing he could to try and squeeze out a big payout.

I wonder if Wadhwa had any oversight in Cameron Downing worming his way into a centre for vulnerable women. I would be curious to know if Wadhwa took a personal interest in assisting Downing have access to certain therapy groups that would please a sex predator like Downing.

Excellent, isn't it? Finally, a national newspaper using clear, unambiguous, reality-based language. Let's hope, as you say that it's part of a deliberate policy.

Thank you for posting. Cannot believe this has been kept quiet for so long, but this fact shows every single one of those staffs must have supported this man being there. Otherwise this news would have leaked.

I assume it’s because it’s i) a legally accurate statement and ii) relevant to the story.

Wadhwa doesn’t have a GRC - which means that Wadhwa’s legal sex remains the same as Wadhwa’s biological sex: male.

The EHRC recently clarified/confirmed that it would be legal to exclude an applicant who asserts an opposite sex gender identity but doesn’t have a GRC from a job role to which single sex exemption/ exceptions apply.

A male individual was give a role advertised as female-only and has now been suspended from that role. Therefore clear and accurate reporting of the individual’s sex is relevant to the story.

I assume Wadhwa will wait to be sacked. If someone has the front to take a woman's job and turn it into a crusade for men to access women's spaces, they're not going to resign.

"The outcry over Wadhwa’s behaviour intensified following the sentencing this week of Cameron Downing, a coercive and manipulative male sex offender, who identified as non-binary and claimed to have received extensive support from ERCC."

As we repeatedly say, all of this will eventually explode as the steady stream of predators, perverts and bullies is exposed - many via the courts and others via the press stepping away from the shackles imposed by "Press for Change" and the other trans media censorship groups.

The furore around the case led to calls for Wadhwa’s resignation, which intensified following Downing’s conviction. “There is no way Mridul is coming back,” one insider said.

I really hope that turns out to be true. He’ll become a martyr to the cause in the eyes of the Faithful, but at least he’ll be gone.

What a pathetic wishy-washy ‘statement’. You can almost hear the eye rolling and tutting from whomever composed that pathetic statement.

Fuck me wims. We really are able to predict the future.

Who could have known that putting a man pretending to be a woman in charge of a rape crisis centre would end in tears. Our powers are epic.

Can I have the lottery numbers please

Wadhwa doesn’t have a GRC - which means that Wadhwa’s legal sex remains the same as Wadhwa’s biological sex: male.

indeed. What's the betting he gets one asap.

Since the scales dropped and I became GC I have switched to The Times. Sensible, factual and non silly reporting of facts.

thank you for posting OP

Thanks for posting. I wasn’t aware of the Downing case. Words fail me. It’s interesting that Wadhwa said to fire anyone not toeing the line. That seems to indicate staff have to believe in gender ideology to work there. This is discrimination and covered under the EA - is that also the case in Scotland? This has been a long time coming but I imagine Wadhwa will be on full pay unfortunately.

Oh,but it's such a 'humiliating and distressing experience'.

Or so I'm told.

Thanks for posting OP.

What I’m wondering is who holds a board of trustees to account? If they whitewash this or even if MW is sacked (or more likely paid off and free to move into another role elsewhere) what/who ensures they don’t continue with the same culture of vilifying women who want SSS and letting any male with a special identity in? Is it Rape Crisis Scotland?

“put on leave”

With or without pay?

It will be with pay. Suspended without pay is for very extreme cases and this doesn't sound like that (galling as it is)

Each and every one of those trustees should be under the spotlight, and barred from any further governance roles tbh.