Surely Mridul Wadhwa has to go now? Report into ERCC out.

[GargoylesofBeelzebub]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13842189/Edinburgh-Crisis-Centre-designed-protect-women-suffered-sexual-violence-condemned-failing-damning-report.html

Pretty scathing. Wadhwa cannot stay surely?

This. MW is awful, but let's not pretend he's the only one. He's definitely not. It's a feature of transideology, not a bug.

Of course LangCleg always used to say - if you create a group of people that is exempt from safeguarding rules then you attract abusers.

We used to know this in safeguarding, but it's seemingly been forgotten - or people have been forced to pretend it's not still true.

I wonder how many cases such as this we'll have before journalists are brave enough to join the dots.

This case has to have broader implications and the Government have to be tough and make sure it does, the phrase damaging already traumatised women has to be repeated every time they wobble and whitter on about the toxic debate. This is a Government that has pledged to reduce VAWG by 50%, single sex absolutely women only spaces and services are part and parcel of that and if they need to be reminded every hour of every day then they will have to be.

Local Authorities that refuse to comply and insist on gender rather than sex will have to have draconian measures taken against them until they do.

The time for asking nicely and expecting decency and reasonableness in return has long gone, imposition is the only route left now. Let's see if the current Government have the guts and strength to do so.

Beeb article here. A brief mention of Beira’s Place (but no mention of the fact MW refused to signpost vulnerable women there).

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2edeyzz0xmo

There were two women's services who lost funding which went to SACRO for 'gender inclusive' services instead. Monklands and Lanarkshire.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4175951-Monklands-Womans-Aid-lose-contract-given-to-gender-neutral-facilities

And of course there is the link to Mridhul Wadhwa's husband or partner who had links to SACRO.

100% @Dumbledoreslemonsherbets and RCS have some nerve pointing out all the failings now when they were cheerleading MW's appointment and trying to silence anyone who spoke against it. This was all predictable; that the clear focus on ideology over support would cause problems, that someone so self-interested wouldn't make a good CEO, that appointing a male to this role wasn't right and wouldn't work long term. I don't feel sorry for MW but I do believe quite a number of people enabled this shit show, some very enthusiastically, and now expect getting rid of MW to fix it. I wonder how much they paid MW to go? It will show up in the Accounts for 24/25 so we'll find out by the end of next year if not before.

Just having a glance at Motherwell & District women's aid. They don't post much on X, but their last two posts, in 2022 and 2023 were about LGBTYS.

'Our service has been busy working hard for our silver LGBT youth Scotland Charter! We started this process in June 2022 and have been working to ensure our service is evolving and inclusive! '

x.com/DistrictAid

He's gone. This (circled) feels significant from the BBC.

Think Maggie Chapman from the greens was involved in this hiring.

but he had also been involved in other centres

scotland is riddled with the stuff. From government down

Riddled with this stuff and anxious to be seen as progressive

Thanks @ArabellaScott It's horrifying. I can't believe they infiltrated women's aid organisations like that and defunded ones providing single sex services. The absolute audacity of them. Our government are fucking evil. And culpable in all this. It wasn't just Maggie Chapman's hand that got MW into this position. Plenty of pictures of him with the 'real' feminist Nicola sturgeon too. She's accountable too. And again, I see that the paedophile enabling organisation LGBTYS rearing it's head. When are they going to be investigated???

Police Scotland recorded 14,602 incidents of sexual crime in 2022-23. 2,529 of these concerned rape or attempted rape and 5,282 were sexual assault. 94% of rape or attempted rape victims were female and 86% of sexual assault victims were female.

Just a reminder.

Do we think the message is getting across at all, or are these people so deeply captured by gender ideology that nothing will make them see sense?

Think Maggie Chapman from the greens was involved in this hiring.

Which would be unsurprising as MW was a member after MW left the SNP in high dudgeon after they voted to let women choose to have a same sex rather than gender forensic examiner.

Finally ! Thanks to all the amazing women and decent men who fought for this for years.

Now to sort out the rest of the mess. We are winning. Bit by bit! Lots more to do.

This story is on Woman's Hour on Radio 4 now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022sjm

On R4 Woman's Hour now.

Anita Rani: Where can rape survivors in Edinburgh go now?

Reporter: They can still self-refer to ERCC but also they can go to Beira's Place set up by JKR.

I missed the first bit, did they actually refer to the fact that Wadhwa is male?

It's good to see that the reporter is using they not she

Oh my! I can’t believe it was covered in such detail. Well done reporter Lorna Gordon.

The other woman seems to have changed Wadhwa's gender to non binary half way through, she started off she/hering and then moved to "they".

Throughout the piece the reporter referred to MW by name and as 'they'.

Anita Rani used 'she'.

That's good, I must have misheard. Thought she said "herself". Did they mention the objections to Wadhwa were because MW was "trans" or "male"?

I honestly don’t know. Certainly where I work the local authority, the NHS and every large brand charity is full of pronouns in emails, recording gender rather than sex even when their policies correctly reference sex as a protected characteristic and firmly be kind/jkr is a big meanie

I think they many of them still haven’t joined the dots plus they all have a handful of very proactive TRA in each organisation and I think even the ones who do get it just cannot be doing with the wearisome fight it would be to root out the ideology and/or need a job and know they’d probably be fired or sent for re education.