Minister for Equalities invites Mridul Wadhwa to meeting to discuss LGBT+ hate crime

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https://x.com/oliviabaileymp/status/2032154723512430645?s=20

The meeting features several trans women. Wadhwa famously applied for a job reserved for women at the Edinburgh rape crisis centre, told women who weren't happy with men in their support groups to "reframe their trauma" and was forced out after an investigation.

Was he forced out, or given the chance to slink away? Those poor women who had to endure what many would classify as male emotional abuse, and misogynistic gaslighting, on top of their existing trauma.

Appalling that he was given a seat at the table. But then, Bailey is Labour and presumably of the brains-fallen-out variety when it comes to trans?

Is LGB hate still a big problem? I know gay is back as the number one boys insult at schools again. But in real life for adults, does anyone get worked up if you are gay? I haven’t come across it professionally or socially. I cant help but think it’s an issues for T people meeting and they are tagging the LGB on to make it more inclusive.

Labour continue to demonstrate the utter contempt they have for women (like pretty much every political party) I find it impossible to believe that they don't know who Wadhwa is or what he did but they think it's fine to invite him to a select round table

meanwhile they still can't be fucking arsed to meet FWS

From James Dreyfus on X.
Yo, Liv…

You forgot to ask anyone from @LesbianLabour
@HumanGayMale @MensNetwork1 @AllianceLGB @project_lesbian @LesbianPersist or any other groups that actually represent LGB people.

You shouldn’t be that pleased with yourself, tbh…

https://x.com/i/status/2032426541028687915

Labour have become ridiculous as well as incompetent

Labour continue to demonstrate the utter contempt they have for women

The. Labour slogan should be "we are here for he/him"

Labour for the men not for you

In the workplace... a few years ago I had a boss who was gay, and he was also gay, and if you hadn't noticed his Pride lanyard he was more than happy to talk about what a huge fan of Madonna he was. But for anyone under about 50, it seems to be a complete non-issue, apart from young straight women heading down to Brighton for Pride. I know there must be homophobic incidents in some workplaces, just by the law of averages, but I don't think I've seen any in the wild for decades.

I don't think boys at school saying "your trainers are gay" is a national crisis either, though we do live in a country where the Prime Minister thinks we can solve misogyny by forcing kids to watch Adolescence.

LGB people continue to get abused and in some cases assaulted or killed, although it's probably rarer than it once was. A gay man where I work was driven out of his home by constant homophobic abuse from his neighbours, including criminal damage.

Although not a national crisis, I don't think having the main insult used by boys linked to a sexual orientation is a great state of affairs. Can't be great if you're a gay kid growing up.

I think the same. Of course there will always be some hate (as indeed there will always be some misogyny / racism snobbery / ageism etc etc).
I think the T and Q (and I still don't know why the Q need any special treatment just for liking spicy sex and odd outfits - I mean, talk about 1st world privilege) are tagging on to the LGB to pretend 'trans' is a civil /human rights issue. It works too, as we know.

I should have added though that of course there is a lot more simmering hatred of lesbians than of gay men. Misogyny at work as ever.

Hatred of women trumps all the LGBT+s added together - the stats and anecdotes on violence, assaults, sexual assaults, rapes, murders, DV and so on bear that out.

Mridual doesn't care about that though - he only cares about the men.

As soon as I read the title I thought - oh for fuck's sake!

The comments suffer no fools

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Ffs.

Mind you, they knew who Mandelson was and what he did, but thought it fine to make him US Ambassador. So their track record doesn’t provide assurance. Of course they’re not going to meet boring old women who continue to insist women as a sex class matter. That’s not daring or progressive or edgy the way Labour want to be seen. But ultimately they are all so transactional as a party.

It reminds me a bit of that time Starmer's people tweeted pictures of him in Blackpool meeting "the LGBT community", which turned out to be several gay blokes and a drag queen. Guess which part of the acronym wasn't in the picture.

Half of the Parliamentary Labour Party is female, but it seems like there are shitloads of Labour MPs (even some female ones!) who literally don't see women.

I have approved of quite a lot of what Labour has tried to achieve but then they go ahead and do this and I have to conclude that many are idiots. Mean idiots. We can guess what’s going to be in the amendments. More jail time for women who point out that men wearing dresses are not women.

Its not possible that they dont know of the controversy around Wadhwa. It makes his inclusion a statement.

They seem him as the victim.

It's not clear why he was there. He moved to an electric car company after leaving the rape crisis centre - no announcement has been made about a move back into the LGBT+ world apparently.

I've never considered myself a single issue voter, on balance would probably have voted labour at the next election, despite everything. But this is so utterly tone deaf. Three blokes in dresses, and to include Wadhwa. Utterly tone deaf. If she doesn't know his past, she should, if she does know his past it's unforgivable. I think I'll be voting Tory, Labour women are utterly without a spine, or they believe in things I can never, ever accept. A plague on them all.

How the fuck is he still being entertained in the political sphere? Surely there are transwomen without a controversial backstorey out there?

If the Minister is having a meeting with stakeholders, especially one that's gonig to have publicity photos, there will be a list of people attending along with thumbnail bios.

The Minister herself may or may not read the bios, but her spad certainly will. There have been enough controversies in recent years, yea even in recent weeks, about Labour Ministers being photographed alongside people with controversial backstories. There is no way on god's green earth that they didn't know about Wadhwa and precisely why he's controversial.

Isn't there some respectable transwoman living a quiet life in Sevenoaks or somewhere, who they can have on standby to go up to Whitehall when a Minister wants to have a photocall with alphabet community stakeholders?

I agree with all the comments about how the hell did this man get invited. Even accepting such a meeting is needed - surely even the most hard bitten TRA would have thought maybe not put his name and face in the public domain. Wont do our reputation any good. Or mabye they think it does. Maybe they think macho posturing is a win win for TRAs.

Disgusted.

Also agree with where was the representation of L&G? Just a further example of how the T cuckoo has pushed the founders of the user not just to the sidelines but out of the nest.

Horrific.

But just to add, Olivia B is not the minister for women, nor on the WEC and according to AI not on any committee.

So what was the meeing, and what was its purpose.

Does anyone know.

Because it would be good to send feedback to who ever it is.

Oh, it's possible. Far, far too many MPs are baselessly self-confident eejits with all the curiosity & observational skills of tooth powder.