Full transcript of the shocking comments from Mridul Wadhwa yesterday.
Including repeating the notion that a movement built by volunteer women needs to "wash and clean" itself of the past female activism./ forwomen.scot/wp-content/upl…
Wadhwa also repeated the appalling proposition that rape victims need to "learn not to be transphobic".
The job of a rape support service is to support victims. Anyone with knowledge of trauma will know that raped women frequently cannot bear to be near males - even loved ones./
Naturally part of healing is to re-equip them for the world. But in a safe space, telling them they must accept clearly male people as women is mental cruelty.
Wadhwa's agenda could not be clearer and it is not the support of these women./
Then the disgraceful suggestion that the demo last week was joined by "fascists". We have comprehensively debunked this lie which was set in motion by people like Robertson and Hunter.
A desperate smear that Wadhwa should know will be used to justify harm. And doesn't care.
A couple of other concerning comments. Wadhwa recommends finding out what staff members think in order to change their opinion (not listen to their concerns). If they remain "prejudiced", Wadhwa seems to agree they would be impossible to work with so seek legal advice on sacking.
Wadhwa talks of trauma impacts on staff working with victims. However, even here some people are more equal than others: it is clear MW is claiming to need more consideration "for those of us who have protected characteristics" & wants "recognition of the additional challenges"
Here, Wadhwa talks about speaking to victim of rape concerned she may encounter a male. Wadhwa frames this as the "radical" inclusion of the "marginalised" (bio male) and the "relative privilege" of the female rape victim.
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🧵 The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) consultation on a revision to “deception as to gender” in its guidance on prosecuting rape and serious sexual offences was discussed by @Jebadoo2 on Free Speech Nation last night.
The guidance is written in the language of gender identity ideology and suggests people successfully “living as a man/woman” are less likely to face prosecution if they deceive a sexual partner about their actual sex.
The CPS consulted with numerous groups when writing the proposed guidance, before putting it out for public consultation, and @thespiralquirk eventually got an FOI disclosure of their names.
We emailed you about your statement on the @scottishgreens website on 2nd Nov. Not only does it misrepresent our court decision (which ruled that the vast majority of transwomen are MEN) but "anti-trans hate crimes" are NOT soaring.
Why has the web page not been corrected?
To clarify, once again, the latest figures from COPS show 36% FEWER charges of crimes with a trans aggravator than last year.
You should be pleased this happened even when gender reform was being debated in Parliament in 2022.
So, @PatrickHarvie is apparently now worried about abuse and "toxic" debate. But mainly when he's on the receiving end. Let's have a non-exhaustive look at all the times Harvie has tried to elevate the conversation:
#HarvieHatesWomen
Back in 2019, and following her thoughtful thread about sex and gender, Juan Mac, a blogger with a long record for abusing women (wonderfully, he was forced to apologise to JKR), named @JoanMcAlpine as his "weekly wanker". Harvie gleefully retweeted it. scotsman.com/news/politics/…
This wasn't the first time Harvie had a go at Joan. Some days previously, he had dismissed the abuse she received, characterising it as “complaints”.
Joan responded saying Harvie was saying she was asking for it.
#HarvieHatesWomen
Link to the Book 28 advice on @CILIPScotland website - much of it is illegal. First some boring serious points before the "fun" begins. Let's dive in!
https://t.co/YNECUw8FUobook28.weebly.com/uploads/7/1/1/…
Refugee groups for women should incl transwomen. No, esp as many women from ethnic minority backgrounds cannot be in mixed sex settings & this will exclude many of that cohort. You will be discriminating potentially on the grounds of:
Sex
Religion
Race
Toilets: with the EHRC's current interpretation on provision. If library users will not use the facilities if members of the opposite sex are present, they have protected rights. Waiting for men to commit assaults before challenging them is not safeguarding!
First we have the sanity intermission with @RobbieTravers during which Innes of @untribalnews makes offensive & ignorant comments about DSDs (again), says "men & women" is a social construct, talks "wrong body" & accuses Robbis of "going on another rant".
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This weekend saw two trans identified would-be politicians in the spotlight. Ellie Gomersall, a previous candidate for SGP & president of Scottish NUS, was called out for taking a place at a conference for women seeking election.
As chance would have it, both recently featured on the Untribal politics podcast along with @RobbieTravers who put the “GC” position factually - & with pushback from the host who made no secret of his bias (more later). The other 2 were very revealing.