Prominent transphobe found guilty of multiple counts of child sexual abuse across a 20 year period.

[ButterflyHatched]

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned at all - I tried to find a thread covering this verdict and got no returns.

A prominent transphobe, Nicola Murray, has been found guilty of repeated counts of child sexual abuse against four children across a 20 year period in West Lothian and Perthshire.

Bloody hell. Absolutely disgusting crimes when committed by anyone, but coming from a well known domestic abuse activist who of all people should have known better is particularly horrifying. I hope this doesn't end up harming Brodie's Trust too badly as an organisation and the important work that they do for survivors of domestic abuse - to discover your founder is responsible for such evil acts has got to be devastating.

From the vile behaviours described in the article, including the use of transphobic slurs against a child for daring to style their hair after their favourite pop star, she appears to have been completely deranged and consumed by her hatred of the differences exhibited by those poor children. Looks like she never succeeded in overcoming her hatred for trans people, which it explains why it spilled out into and marred her activism.

It must have taken immense courage for those young people to speak up about her abusive behaviour, but thankfully it seems this is one of the rare occasions where victims are believed and taken seriously when coming forward.

"echo chamber"

Your indignant anger that a place to discuss womens rights exists, gives you away. You've confirmed it.

I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw him brought up as some poor oppwessed victim hounded out of his job.

Pull the other one!

Let us not forget that Stonewall was, after all, a riot. We're still allowed to think of the event that kickstarted the modern struggle for LGBT rights as a positive thing, right?

Yet another disingenuous comparison, but who's surprised at this point?

Stonewall was a riot because the police had spent years entrapping and harassing gay people. The police have done no such thing to trans-identified people in the UK. Quite the opposite, in fact. They've consistently taken their side and failed to defend vulnerable women. A recent LWS event in Nottingham ended with the women getting so frustrated by police's basic failure to keep the protesters at a safe distance, that they walked to the nearest station and gave their speeches right on their doorstep instead.

The UK police do not entrap trans people and arrest them for being trans. (Which is not against the law.) They do not harass trans people. They do not sit on their arses and do nothing to ensure trans people's safety. In fact, they've had multiple awareness campaigns about it over the years, and often make a show of support at Pride.

To compare the behaviour of TRAs at the weekend to Stonewall, is truly deranged.

I mean, ffs. One of the reasons the Supreme Court ruling was even necessary, was that police departments up and down the country were allowing trans-identified male officers to strip-search women.

Apparently so. Never heard of her.
Ignoring that point, just to be clear her crimes are disturbing and appalling. I’m very glad the victims both spoke up and were taken seriously.
I understand she was involved in domestic violence work, it does demonstrate the importance of no sacred castes and no-one being above suspicion.

I’m so shocked by the examples on this thread. In all honesty I was on the fence about toilets before, but definitely see the case for bio women only now!

She's just an obscure outlier who shouldn't be taken as representative of the whole, though, right?

Yes, that's right Butterfly. Are you really still struggling to understand that predators are often very manipulative and successful at persuading people that they are something they are not? From what I've read about this woman, that seems to be the case here.

I saw an article in the Times Scotland about her after she was convicted, didn't recognize the name or the charity.

...witch-hunt against Mridul Wadhwa (who was driven out of her job at a rape crisis centre in Edinburgh by the abuse she received at Murray's hands...

Mr. Idul Wadhwa is and always has been a man. He should never have been employed at ERC, or any related organisation, because of the Single Sex Exemption Cause.

He used his position to bully and abuse women, who had been rated and who were in dire need of help. He sent them away and deliberately and knowingly refused to give them the details of other centres, which could have helped them.

There was no witch hunt, he's not a woman, or a "she."

He's a vile, abusive skidmark, who inveigled his way into a job, for which he had no accreditation qualifications at all.

Imagine not being able to recognise when manipulation and deception occurs…. Surely Hatched recognises deceptive actions.

GC women as a group, don't hold up signs calling for another group of people to -

Be decapitated.

Be raped.

To die in a fire.

TRAs hold up these signs calling for violence and sexual violence as clear as day, on record, and they do in fact act out on these calls for violence regularly with acts of actual physical violence against women and children.

As horrendous and tragic and shocking the Nicola Murray case is, women still make up less than 2% of the prison population for violent crimes, less than 0.5% for crimes against children.

There's no point trying to claim GC women are prone to violence when the facts show the opposite.

With that user name I thought you were going to bring up barbie kardashian.