The trans activist who destroyed a rape crisis centre

As anyone who’s spent time working at a charity will tell you, good causes often attract utter bastards. The women’s sector would seem to be no exception, with dubious do-gooders using worthy organisations to polish their image and promote their pet causes. Nothing illustrates this more powerfully than the reputational destruction of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) by one man on a mission.

This week, it was revealed that Mridul Wadhwa, the trans activist who was appointed as chief executive of ERCC in 2021, has quietly slithered on to pastures new. He has long enjoyed a successful career in the women’s sector, having worked at Shakti Women’s Aid, Rape Crisis Scotland and Forth Valley Rape Crisis Centre. Wadhwa identifies as a woman, but he is male and has boasted that he doesn’t have a gender-recognition certificate. You might have expected his maleness to be a barrier to working in rape-crisis centres, but it seems many in the women’s sector were desperate to crown him as queen of the feminists. He has been feted by Scottish movers-and-shakers and even once stood for the SNP on an all-woman shortlist.

News of his resignation follows a report by Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS), which found he had failed to understand the limits of his authority and that, under his tenure, ERCC did ‘not put survivors first’.

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