It was a post which was expressly advertised as being for women only but, three years ago this month, a biological male was installed in it. It required a compassionate figure to lead a charity providing a 'safe space' to help rape victims get through the worst experience of their lives.
A damning employment tribunal judgment this week made that crystal clear. Here was a biological male working in a women-only space who, according to the tribunal, was on a mission to 'cleanse the organisation of those who did not follow her beliefs'. The inescapable conclusion, it seems, is that Ms Wadhwa's insistence on validation as a trans woman trumped all other considerations at her place of work – even giving support to traumatised women.
'Do you know if I am a man or a woman?' her solicitor Naomi Cunningham asked a witness who works at the centre.READ MORE JK Rowling says it is time for workplaces to protect gender critical beliefs after tribunal finds trans rape centre boss carried out 'Kafkaesque' witch hunt against female worker Yet the eight-day hearing earlier this year presented a chilling reality. A government-funded charity was doling out doctrine where it once offered comfort.
She was not sacked. There were no grounds for that. Instead, she was subjected to a nine-month disciplinary process for sending an email seeking guidance. She was labelled a transphobe for a communication she sent on behalf of a woman who had just been raped and who wanted to be in the company of other women.Upholding the trans inclusion ethos of its chief executive was what she concluded this supposed 'safe space' for women was really about.
Beira's Place, an Edinburgh rape crisis centre which insists on female-only support for rape victims, was set up after the controversy at ERCC. Pictured: Beira's Place board of directors Susan Smith, JK Rowling, Johann Lamont, Margaret McCartney and Rhona Hotchkiss Says Ms Gosling: 'These are brave, principled leaders who've been put in an impossible situation – and either way, vulnerable women lose.'
READ MORE Trans rape centre boss was behind 'heresy hunt' of female charity counsellor with 'gender critical' beliefs, tribunal rules 'Emails, complaint letters to the board. I think one of them… was signed by quite a few hundred people. So, pretty much from the first day, we began to deal with this onslaught.
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