Mick Hartley

Fun and games at Rape Crisis Scotland and the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, where former head Mridul Wadhwa, beloved of Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP, was forced to resign last year after pushback to his imposition of trans ideology. In, of all places, a rape centre. He shouldn't have been in the job anyway – it was advertised for women only – but this was Scotland, and he was trans, so…yes, it was a shoo-in.

Now:

A rape crisis charity embroiled in a transgender row has dropped a pledge to issue a definition of women, The Telegraph can reveal.

Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS) admitted it was no longer planning to publish a definition, despite previously promising to do so, following the recommendations of independent expert review.

Vicky Ling was commissioned to investigate Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) after a damning tribunal ruling found it was operating an “extreme” version of gender identity theory under the leadership of Mridul Wadhwa, a biological male who identifies as female.

Her report found that the centre had failed to properly protect women-only spaces and had “caused damage to some survivors”.

Ms Ling called on RCS to devise and publish a “shared definition of woman/female” to be adopted across its network.

The charity, which receives more than £3 million in annual funding from the SNP government, had previously accepted Ms Ling’s recommendations in full. Sandy Brindley, its chief executive, claimed last September that work on a definition had been going on for nearly a year.

It's so complicated. The greatest philosophical minds are stumbling over this one. Well, only the greatest philosophical minds are stumbling over this one. Everyone else knows that a woman is an adult human female.

Tess White, the Scottish Tory shadow equalities minister, claimed the “shocking U-turn” showed RCS “haven’t learned any lessons” from a series of scandals.

“Once again women have been badly let down by an organisation that is supposed to support them, but which is failing to show any common sense,” she said.

“It is unacceptable that RCS still cannot give women reassurance that they will be able to access single-sex spaces at these centres.

“Ultimately, the SNP’s reckless self-ID policies are to blame for this betrayal of women and girls.”

Meanwhile, life goes on:

The Sunday Post reported at the weekend that in an internal consultation document about new rules, RCS stated that a woman can be “anyone who self-identifies as a woman”.