So farewell then Mridul Wadhwa:
Wadhwa should never have applied for a job that was restricted to women only. He should never have been appointed. Once in post he should have acted entirely differently. After the damning ET judgment he should have resigned – & if he hadn't he should have been fired. 1/3 https://t.co/4FrxjKNwUj
— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) September 13, 2024
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"The chair and board should have stepped down too. ScotGov should have withdrawn funding from ERCC until there was an entirely new board and SLT. But yes, apart from all that, the "time is right" for Wadhwa to go. 2/3
"During his inglorious tenure he did provide one important service to women – he illustrated why men who demand entry to women-only spaces are precisely the men who should never be allowed in. They are, by definition, boundary violators. So goodbye Wadhwa – and good riddance 3/3"
The chief executive of a sexual assault support service has stood down after a review found it failed to protect women-only spaces. Mridul Wadhwa – a trans woman – resigned after a Rape Crisis Scotland report found she failed to behave professionally while head of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC).
The investigation, carried out by an independent consultant, also found Ms Wadhwa “did not understand the limits of her authority” and the needs of survivors were not prioritised.
In a statement, the ERCC board said it was implementing recommendations from the review, but felt the “time was right for a change of leadership”….
However, For Women Scotland – which has campaigned against changes to transgender rights – accused the board of "ignoring its own culpability".
In a statement posted on X, they said, external: "This is the very least that they can do. It seems the board are intent on ignoring their own culpability.
"It's not good enough.
"They, and Rape Crisis Scotland, are making a sacrifice. But they created the problem."
Mick Hartley 
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