Ask the men
Gotta have men in rape crisis centers says lunatic.
Biological men should still be able to work in rape crisis centres despite a scandal over a trans woman’s running of survivor services, a leading charity boss has claimed.
Sandy Brindley, the chief executive of Rape Crisis Scotland, confirmed that Mridul Wadhwa, a male who identifies as female and is chief executive of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, was not currently at work following a damning employment tribunal ruling.
Emphasis on “currently” no doubt.
Ms Brindley, who has previously championed Wadhwa as an “amazing sister”, denied that her organisation had any involvement in the appointment and declined to confirm whether the chief executive was suspended or on leave. She said she believed victims of sexual violence should be able to make “informed choices” about the sex of support workers.
However, she rejected claims that there was no place for trans women in rape crisis centres, despite admitting the employment tribunal ruling had been “damning and damaging.”
Well she’s wrong. You know why? Because women don’t want men for this job, but in addition to that, the problem with letting men work in rape crisis centers is the fact that they want to and feel entitled to push for the right to. It’s the fact that they put their wants ahead of the needs of the women. That should disqualify them all by itself. Women who’ve been raped don’t need to encounter men who put themselves first in a rape crisis center. That’s pretty much the last thing they need.
Marion Calder, a director at the For Women Scotland campaign group, said Ms Brindley had serious questions to answer over events at the Edinburgh centre. “She has previously described Mridul Wadhwa as a ‘warrior for women’s rights’ and repeatedly championed him, as well as the ludicrous notion that people can change sex,” she said.
“The culture at the centre was no secret and it was obvious for years that the needs of vulnerable service users were being sidelined for this deranged ideology. For her to claim that there is still a place for men in rape crisis centres shows she has learned nothing and means many women will simply not be able to trust these vital services.”
That’s how it looks from here.
I’m struggling to understand how Ms Brindley’s statement, “ She said she believed victims of sexual violence should be able to make “informed choices” about the sex of support workers.” squares with the facts of Edinburgh Rape Crisis’ actions as revealed in court? Those actions being, as I recall, to keep victims in the dark, and bully, harass and sideline any worker who seeks to provide information to victims.
It doesn’t. I think Ms Brindley was being a tad parsimonious with the truth there.
Sure, he could work for a rape crisis centre in a nation where the victim of rape is not female by definition, provided he accept that even accidental contact with a female victim is to be avoided. But in the UK? Hmm, I suppose he could work in a back-of-house or entirely off-site role. He could manage the expenses, or set the staff schedules, or process forms… so long as he never has contact with the victim.
But this risk of even accidental contact can be reduced all the way down to zero by hiring only women i.e. female adults, and UK law explicitly permits this. So Ms. Brindley can sod off with this nonsense anyway.
Gee, who could possibly have foreseen that hiring an entitled, fraudulent man to run a women’s rape crisis center would turn out to be exactly as horrifying and disastrous as the women said it would be? Look at all the damage that has been done to untold numbers of women over the last several YEARS, because a man’s ego matters so much more than raped women.
There are cases of men being raped, generally by other men.
I guess there could be a case for a male counselor in such cases.
For the more common case of a woman being raped by a man. No.
Jim Baerg, I would argue that they don’t belong in women’s shelters, either. They need separate facilities.