The capture
JK Rowling is leading calls for resignations across Scotland’s rape crisis service after a report found a centre in Edinburgh had “damaged” survivors.
It’s not so much that she’s leading them, I think, as it is that she’s got the clout to get people to listen. Maybe that’s what “leading” means in this context, but I doubt she wants to be portrayed as the boss, or to get all the credit.
The author intervened after Mridul Wadhwa, a trans woman, quit as chief executive of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) having been found to have “failed to set professional standards of behaviour” and for not understanding “the limits on her role’s authority”.
Pff. He systematically bullied everyone there, especially the women who needed the service.
For critics of Rape Crisis Scotland, the row erupting about ERCC symbolises the ideological capture of the Scottish government by trans activists.
It is the ideological capture. No need for symbolism; it’s the thing itself.
This week’s report on the ERCC, commissioned by Rape Crisis Scotland, found that Wadhwa had failed to ensure the centre carried out its primary function: to deliver services to women and girls who have experienced sexual violence.
Its practices “caused damage” to survivors and some “did not feel safe” using it, according to the author, Vicky Ling, a legal specialist.
During her research, Ling asked the ERCC for further information on the women-only services it provided but was told there was “very little demand” for them.
Anyone believe that? Anyone at all?
It emerged that for a 16-month period until February this year “there were no protected women-only spaces available through ERCC unless they were specifically requested”.
These people make me feel stabby.
Love the minimization of Wadhwa’s actions. It’s not that he “failed” to do something. This leaves it open to the interpretation that he tried but did not succeed, that he was well-meaning but ineffectual. This is not what he was doing. He was actively sabototaging and undermining the institution of which he was put in charge. He was not acting in good faith. He went in planning to eliminate single-sex rape crisis services for women. Wadwha wasn’t blundering around, in over his head, affably failing to do his job correctly because he didn’t know what he was doing, despite all his best efforts. That would have been “failure.” The calculated, ideological dismantling of women only services to centre “transness” was nothing of the sort. It was cruel and malicious. And for a time, he succeeded.
If you hire someone to inflate your car’s tires and he turns around and slashes them instead, you would not say he “failed” to pump them full of air: you’d say he destroyed them. There was no effort on his part to do the job entrusted to him. He did not “fail” at the assigned task. His actual energy and effort was put into doing its exact opposite. That is wanton destruction. That was Wadwha’s “failure.”
Certainly there should be an investigation, because Wadwha’s hiring despite his not having a GRC, broke the shitty rules that were in place at the time. His “woman-ness” was pure self-ID, without the skeletonized fig-leaf that the GRC might have provided as cover. He didn’t belong there, but was hired nonetheless. Why? How? These are questions that need to be answered so that the like does not happen again. The women of Scotland deserve to know how this happened, to find out who sold out their rights in order to pander to the faux progressive fad of trans ideology. They already know the price that they paid. Who thought it was a deal worth making?
Who believed hiring Wadwha was a) legal, and b) a good idea? I refuse to believe there were no qualified women available to take this post, that none of them were applying for it already. So who will explain why they hired a MAN. Who will take resonsibility for saying “Yes” to his appointment? Who will stand before the women that they and Wadwha harmed to apologize? Do they even know that they did wrong? Heads should roll. They are not fit for the positions they held and abused. The women they betrayed deserved better in the past, and deserve better in the future. Those officials who failed them should all be sacked.
What do you mean, “unless they were specifically requested”?
Even when “specifically requested,” such services were flatly refused, and the requesters punished for making the request. Clients were bullied and denied, and employees were harassed out of their jobs.