Mridul Wadhwa - Male CEO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis

trisher

Chewbacca have you any evidence that this has actually happened? She has been working with women survivors for sometime. Have any of the women she has dealt with complained? During the 16years since she started working in the field of women's aid how many women have complaind that she forced them to do as you say?

Chewbacca posted again because apparently you haven't read it. Show me the evidence that she has ever made any women uncomfortable by insisting on a particular counsellor and I will back you completely
As it is I think 16 years of supporting women defeats your "she will make women who have been raped do this"

I would quite like to see more info on the other concerns.

Galaxy If you click on the link for the article by Graham Linehan, you will see that he has provided screenshots from Company House regarding Wadwha's partner and businesses. Company House records are free to access if you would like to follow the trail through.

One, who no matter how he genders himself, remains biologically male with functioning male sexual body parts.

I wondered if the women he counselled were aware of that when they sat alone with him and poured out the details of their rape.

I can’t actually write on an open forum what is in my mind here.

Chewbacca

^It doesn't concern you that Wadhwa wants to deny women the right to choose a female doctor^ to carry out intimate examinations

Or that he wants to discuss whether a woman orgasms whilst she's being raped? Or that he has supported a serial litigant and period-obsessed paedophile, Jonathan Yaniv, against a group of migrant women? Or that he tried to overturn single-sex provisions allowed for in the Equality Act 2010?

Does none of this strike you as the behaviour of a predatory male, who is systematically trying to remove all safe guarding for vulnerable women?

I think your last paragraph sums up this man totally

It doesn't concern you that Wadhwa wants to deny women the right to choose a female doctor to carry out intimate examinations

Or that he wants to discuss whether a woman orgasms whilst she's being raped? Or that he has supported a serial litigant and period-obsessed paedophile, Jonathan Yaniv, against a group of migrant women? Or that he tried to overturn single-sex provisions allowed for in the Equality Act 2010?

Does none of this strike you as the behaviour of a predatory male, who is systematically trying to remove all safe guarding for vulnerable women?

What weird rules you operate by trisher. I have seen you use links to shock horror men numerous times are they speaking for you?
What I would say Chewbacca is I am very cautious about information until it is from sources I am sure of, there are lots of women and organisations working on this issue at the moment so I would quite like to see what they have to say. The information re reasons for leaving SNP are a matter of public record, I would quite like to see more info on the other concerns.

trisher

Is it a sign of something that women who profess to be huge feminists need the comments of a man to support their views?
I find it quite funny.

trisher is that really your only thought on the last few posts? It doesn't concern you that Wadhwa wants to deny women the right to choose a female doctor to carry out intimate examinations. That transwomen's validation is more important than rape victims trauma? That sickens and disgusts me. To quote FarNorth again Why would any male person, transwoman or not, want to insist on their 'right' to do an intimate examination of a traumatised woman?

Peasblossom

It was just sneering and belittling Chewbacca.

You know, what men do to women when we won’t agree with them.

Is it a sign of something that women who profess to be huge feminists need the comments of a man to support their views

A somewhat peculiar comment from someone who believes "gender is but a social construct"! What does it matter what sex or gender Graham Linehan is provided he does his job? Are you saying that only males are called Graham? He could be transgender but you've just made huge prejudicial assumptions that he is definitely a man. It would appear that you're just as bigoted in your assumptions as the rest of us afterall trisher.

Nor mine.

Should women not have a voice. Just accept what is given them. Are their views of no account.

S that what you believe trisha?

I'm losing respect for you trisher. I've twice answered your post @ 17.18 yesterday but you haven't done me the courtesy of answering mine @ 17.28. Why not?

Alas it seems we still need a man, because people like you still deny women their voice.

So many women appalled and protesting and you close your ears to them.

Is it a sign of something that women who profess to be huge feminists need the comments of a man to support their views?
I find it quite funny.

Thanks Chewbacca

Rosie51

grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/mridrul-wadha-sacro-and-the-14-million

Chewbacca it gets murkier and murkier. Do you have a link to the substack?

There are currently 92 comments at the bottom of that article. They make interesting reading.

FarNorth Why would any male person, transwoman or not, want to insist on their 'right' to do an intimate examination of a traumatised woman? I know, sickening isn't it? And so, so revealing of where their priorities lie.

Interesting article from GrahamLineham.substack.com:

Mridul Wadhwa is the trans-identified male CEO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. As has been much reported, he made some deeply alarming comments when appearing on The Guilty Feminist podcast earlier this month. We have reported on Wadwha in the past, making the following points:

He has no GRC so is still legally male.

He lied about his sex to secure a job at Forth Valley Rape Crisis Centre.

He objected to an amendment allowing rape victims to choose the sex of the medical clinician examining them.

Pursuing political ambitions, he took a place on an SNP all-women shortlist.

He has demonstrated a shocking lack of knowledge regarding legislation that affects women’s services, a sector in which he’s worked for over a decade.

He is ‘disappointed’ by the single-sex provisions allowed for in the Equality Act 2010 and finds them ‘discriminatory’ against transwomen.

He sided with serial litigant and period-obsessed paedophile, Jonathan Yaniv, against a group of migrant women.

He seems to think it suitable to discuss whether rape victims experience orgasm.

If Wadhwa’s contempt for women wasn’t already apparent, his appearance on The Guilty “Feminist” Podcast made it perfectly clear. (For Women Scotland have compiled a transcript of the entire broadcast.) Denying that women who’ve suffered male violence need female-only spaces, he made this shocking statement:

“Sexual violence happens to bigoted people as well… If you bring unacceptable beliefs that are discriminatory in nature, we will begin to work with you on your journey of recovery from trauma. But please also expect to be challenged on your prejudices… You have to reframe your trauma… To me, therapy is political”.

His horrifying statements were roundly condemned by women's service providers, mental health care professionals and rape survivors, prompting the hashtag #AskRapeCrisisScotland.

But their words fell on deaf ears; Rape Crisis Scotland didn’t want to know. They issued a statement trying to throw scorn on those protesting Wadhwa’s damaging comments rather than addressing the issues.

On Thursday Wadhwa issued a brief statement, claiming his words had been ‘taken out of context’ yet all he did was double down; “If what we see/hear from someone is clearly prejudiced and we are not responding to their urgent support need it is also part of our role to provide a space to explore and challenge this”.

And now it looks as if he is keen to spread his particular brand of men’s rights activism over the border. Sheffield-based SAYiT is a charity focusing on LGBT+ young people and sexual health/HIV. It is hosting a free online event at which Wadhwa will be discussing ‘intersectional inclusion in rape crisis services’.

And there’s more… In February we reported on Monklands Women’s Aid having its funding withdrawn by North Lanarkshire Council after 40 years of providing specialist domestic abuse services to women and children. The council awarded its new £1.4 million contract to an organisation called Sacro which is not a specialist in domestic violence nor local to the Lanarkshire area. Council Officers said "that contracting a new service was ‘Informed by the findings of gaps in services with respect to specific groups including LGBT+’ and that Sacro ‘will better help male victims’." Monklands was only one of three women’s sector services in Lanarkshire which lost out to Sacro after their funding was cut.

Well, you’ll never guess who was a director of Sacro until March this year…? That’s right, Arun Gopinath. Arun ‘he/him’ Gopinath is, according to some sources, Wadhwa’s partner/husband.

So, to sum up, Mridul Wadhwa has spent well over a decade working in the women’s sector. In that time he’s actively pushed an agenda that allows males into what used to be female-only services, ostracising and denigrating the women who protest. Meanwhile, his partner was, until a few months ago, the director of a company which hoovered up the lucrative million pound contracts when these women’s services were cut off from public funding because of their female-only policies."

From The Times Scotland Aug 12th

Wadhwa left the SNP after MSPs overwhelmingly backed an amendment allowing survivors of rape and sexual violence to choose the person examining them on the basis of sex rather than gender.

Note : This was a vote about intimate medical examination of sexual assault survivors - not even counselling.

MW did not want women to be able to specify that they want a biological female to examine them, after a sexual attack.
MW felt it overwhelmingly important that that right should be denied to women, in favour of validation for transwomen doctors who may want to do those examinations.

Why would any male person, transwoman or not, want to insist on their 'right' to do an intimate examination of a traumatised woman?

No need to fix anything for me thanks. I'm quite capable of expressing myself. By all means disagree but don't 'fix' me.

So it seems that your own beliefs and values take precedence over the victim's needs, which is precisely what you are blaming Mridul for doing. I think you'll find it's the needs of the victims that are being prioritised, rather than the counsellor's. Nobody is stopping any woman who is comfortable with a transwoman counsellor from using one, but there should be choice without accusations of bigotry being levelled.

The anti-trans lobby don't care what damage is done in their crossfire.
Trans activists don't care about the safety and trauma of those victims of rape who want to select their help by sex not gender identity. They prefer to prioritise the feelings and validation of the staff. There you go, fixed it for you.

“Actually you are doing more harm than the person you are complaining about”

What should the many, many women who believe that Wadhwa is wrong do, *trisha”?

Should those women not have a voice? Should they just accept what the organisation chooses to give them?

Why is their opinion of no account in determining their own needs?

trisher

I'm not borrowing anything I'm simply pointing out that as a result of all the negativity women who need help will probably not be able to access it. And actually you are doing more harm than the person you are complaining about. So it seems that your own beliefs and values take precedence over the victim's needs, which is precisely what you are blaming Mridul for doing.

Like this post. It's very sad but unfortunately true.

The anti-trans lobby don't care what damage is done in their crossfire.