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.

She's a junior minister, mostly in education but also has the junior equalities brief under Bridget Phillipson, with a particular focus on LGBT. So I'd be interested to know if or how she's fed into the slow walking of the EHRC guidance.

She seems to belong to that common group in the political world, a lesbian who doesn't know what a woman is.

Sorry I misread the OP title. It didn't say Women - it did say Equalities.

Her Government post is:
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
Department for Education

So, Labour saw the outcry and rage Wadhwa created in Scotland and the damage it did to the SNP, and thought - we'll have some of that?

I think it is deliberate.

I think it is clearly saying to women we dont care what you think.

We dont care that he broke the law.

He was invitied because we want you to know we are never ever going to listen to women who drone on about sex based rights as your vulnerablity is nothing compared to trans people the most oppressed people in the world.

The Greens x
The Lib Dem’s x
Reform x
Your Party x
Any Party that doesn’t respect me x

I will be spoiling my vote by voting Conservative 😂

Oh FFS. Has anyone told any of the Equalities ministers there are nine legally protected groups, plus a fair few other disadvantaged ones that are not legally protected (class, many carers) all of whom would merit their attention? Most don’t seem to have progressed beyond the most vulnerable 🤦‍♀️

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?

It reflects a lack of self awareness or ego - he must know he's going to attract negative attention, but can't step aside for a Mx Respectable. Or even wanting to signal the inconditional support he has from the government.

The icing on the cake - Bridget Phillipson's Social Media Muffin has reposted it!

I never ever thought it would be a possibility for me but I will probably either spoil my ballot again (by writing “adult human female” ) or I might just have to put a ❌ beside the conservative candidate.

It gets worse for those of us in the north I'm afraid. Wadhwa is standing for election in Edinburgh and Lothians East. For the Scottish Green Party, naturally.

The F-ing audacity of this bloke who is clearly determined to exert control over women. The Greens' list is a rogue's gallery, and people will vote for them because they think they are harmless tree-huggers.

Good christ above.

What kind of chance do the Greens have in that seat? Please say a non-existent one

Wadhwa is on the list for the area, not a main candidate, and not at the top which means he is unlikely to be elected.

Wtaf?? 🤬

I think this has been deleted now?

It has - obviously they finally woke up to his badly it was going down though no doubt she was say it was due to 'abuse' or 'hate' 🙄

OMG literal erasure!

This is interesting, it's noticeable at our local school as well, and not just for boys. What I notice, however, is that it's not really related to any particular viewpoint on sexuality, even the ones who are kind of artsy-fartsy and woke use it.

It's like it's been shorn to a large extent of the meaning, I suppose similarly to how it had lost the older meaning before. It mainly seems predicated on being contrary to the language diktats of the authority figures, that is, the teachers and school admin.

It has indeed been deleted, but LWD and others are rightly calling for a review.

He has children? www.instagram.com/reel/DVBzVMbDYL6/?igsh=MWIxZm53NWJtcWd2bw==

Adopted, I believe

And there I was, thinking Mridul Wadhwa had been thoroughly discredited when his Rape Crisis capers came out in court and that he would disappear into obloquy. Well silly me.

Wadhwa is standing for election in Edinburgh and Lothians East. For the Scottish Green Party, naturally.

Well, I wasn't planning to vote Green anyway but that puts the tin lid on it. I'd rather risk Reform than even half a chance of giving Wadhwa any power at all. With Reform at least I don't know that one of their candidates abused his professional role with rape victims.

And when it comes to Conseratives - have you seen the photo of Tess White with her 1200cc motorbike? 😉

The irony - sorry I'll rephrase that, one of the lorryloads of ironies - is that there still are crimes against the 'LGBT+' community, but guess what? most of them are against the L&G part - lesbians and gays, not trans people.

Lesbian couple beaten by group of men still need justice | Advocate.com, or the couple beaten up on a London bus
London bus attack: Arrests after gay couple who refused to kiss beaten
[that was not recent it was 2019 but I don't suppose that kind of violent anti-lesbian hatred has gone away]
Man beaten in Bournemouth homophobic attack in pub toilet

Homophobic crimes like these do not involve 'hurty words', they use boots and fists and, like sticks and stones, break bones.

Homphobic 'Hurty words' abound on football terraces, where racist abuse is quite rightly condemned and will be acted upon, but homophobic abuse is just 'part of the culture'...or something.
And 'gay' has become an insult again in school?

The irony is that the literal literal violence against lesbian and gay people is subsumed into the category 'LGBTQ+ hate crime', and guess which letter in the acronym is the only one that matters?

LGB✂T

If Roz Adams fits the L or B she should have been invited to that table.

Shame for Olivia and Bridget someone archived the Threadreader version.

https://archive.ph/HnItm