A victory at last against the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre and its head, Mridul Wadhwa – a trans woman appointed despite the job being advertised, for obvious reasons, as women only, and despite his lack of any GRC.
An employment judge has condemned a support service for rape victims and found that its chief executive was behind a “heresy hunt” against a female worker who held “gender-critical” beliefs.
Roz Adams won her claim of constructive dismissal against Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, which is funded by the Scottish government, with the tribunal finding that she had been harassed and discriminated against.
Supporters of Adams condemned the “abusive management” she was forced to endure….
The judgment describes an investigation undertaken by the centre into Adams’s opinions as “unfortunately a classic of its kind, somewhat reminiscent of the work of Franz Kafka”.
Ian McFatridge, the employment judge, identified Mridul Wadhwa, a trans woman who is ERCC chief executive, as a key figure in an internal investigation that “should not have been launched in the first place”.
McFatridge said the review “was clearly motivated by a strong belief among senior management and some of the claimant’s colleagues that the claimant’s views were inherently hateful”.
He added: “It is clear that [Wadhwa] was involved in the process since she was the one who selected and contacted who would deal with the various stages of the disciplinary and grievance process.”…
The tribunal, which has yet to decide on a settlement, heard that the dispute began when Adams spoke to colleagues about a rape victim who asked if her counsellor would be a “man or a woman” because she would feel “uncomfortable talking to a man”.
It intensified when a non-binary member of the staff copied Wadhwa into an email chain.
In evidence, it was revealed that Wadhwa had told a university event that the “best way” to get staff to support trans inclusion policies was to “fire them”.
Helen Joyce, of the campaign group Sex Matters, said: “Sex-based boundaries matter for everyone, but most especially women who have experienced male violence and sexual assault. By standing up against the abusive management, Roz Adams has helped women across the UK.”
Adams now works at Beira’s Place, a centre funded by the author JK Rowling, which offers a “sexual violence support service for women run by women”.
Good luck to her.
Also…
Edinburgh Rape Crisis Center just posted this 7 minutes ago on their IG page. Not addressing they lost the employment tribunal brought against them on ALL COUNTS.
Mridul Wadhwa needs to be discharged immediately. pic.twitter.com/ZMmXL07DBc
— Mochi ⚢ (@IsleLesbos) May 20, 2024
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Mr Mridul needs to resign immediately. In fact, he can take the entire management board with him in the process. ERCC is not fit for purpose, quite clearly. It's become an entitled male fetishistic transvestite's play thing https://t.co/eaVxH7r2Fv
— Clive Simpson (@QueensSpeechUK) May 20, 2024
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