Last week’s controversy around the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre put the spotlight on the need for single-sex services to protect vulnerable women, but it’s very far from the only example of how Scottish women are being let down in this regard by both the Scottish Government and civic organisations.
The homelessness system in Scotland has collapsed. Emergency accommodation is dangerous, sub-standard, and overcrowded. There has been an epidemic of deaths in hotels and B&Bs in recent years.
As a writer, feminist and literary events organiser in Scotland, I’m regularly sent links to information someone thinks might be of interest to me. This week it was a document commissioned by one of Scotland’s leading and most powerful publicly-funded literary organisations, Literature Alliance Scotland (LAS).
Nobody, of course, objects to transgender writers being included or supported, but the content of the guidance raises several extremely serious and concerning issues.
Normally in cases like these, there’s an instant and concerted attempt to rubbish the judgement, both from amateurs and activist lawyers like Robin Moira “Barry” White, Jolyon Maugham, and the anonymous “Pissed Off Lawyer” tweeting as @legaltweetz. They’ll issue spurious “analyses” dismissing the findings with jargon terms like “obiter”, and either question their correctness or attempt to minimise their significance.
For some reason that didn’t happen this time. The hyper-antagonist online trans army has very conspicuously failed to rush to the defence of ERCC CEO Mridul Wadhwa, perhaps because Judge Ian McFatridge’s conclusions were so relentlessly, brutally and comprehensively excoriating of Wadhwa’s appalling behaviour that no amount of spin or disingenuity could disguise it.
But then, on white charger and with papoose, enter a hero.
Mridul Wadhwa, a man with whom Wings readers have been familiar for some years, was found by the tribunal judge to have been “the invisible hand behind everything that had taken place” as Roz Adams, a conscientious, caring and highly professional woman with a long history in the sector, was systematically and methodically hounded out of her job for holding, privately and sensitively, the belief that biological sex is real.
We watched Question Time last night for the first time in about nine years, and this comment from SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn raised an eyebrow.
Because we couldn’t remember ANY times that Flynn had publicly expressed any problems with the Scottish Greens during their governing alliance.
James Barr Gardner on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Nicola Sturgeon’s interview with Julie Etchingham is just as big a car crash as Prince Andrew’s interview with Emily Maitlis.” Aug 13, 03:40
aLurker on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “” JOANNA CHERRY: She’s promised to tell the unadorned truth… but will Nicola Sturgeon’s book answer any of the embarrassing…” Aug 13, 01:31
Young Lochinvar on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Can I also just add, the “re-elect now” 2016 election image in the article: I certainly don’t remember/ recall such…” Aug 12, 23:59
Young Lochinvar on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Thought provoking post Sally. I think you are right to be cynical as she will be angling on most men…” Aug 12, 23:44
Young Lochinvar on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Big Jock Well spotted! All political careers end in failure. She’s just unwittingly lit the blue touch paper to hers;…” Aug 12, 23:38
Young Lochinvar on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Perhaps I’m being lazy not searching but how many pages are there in this book? Lordy Rev; this looks to…” Aug 12, 23:23
Sally Hughes on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “There’s a huge amount of financial reward, from big pharma, re the gender/woke issue. Perhaps, one day, the evidence of…” Aug 12, 23:17
Big Jock on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “She has gone full lesbian now. Gone are the sharp business suits and thin figure. Replaced by men’s jeans and…” Aug 12, 23:15
robertkknight on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “I managed to keep a straight face for about 5 seconds there, Mr Scott. My apologies… I’d hoped to string…” Aug 12, 22:51
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “She kept us all safe through the Covid Years, when the evil BoJo would have killed all of us Scots,…” Aug 12, 22:51
Confused on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “yeah, but you like it, don’t you and you want the rest of us to like it too” Aug 12, 22:47
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Perhaps more true to the actual, lived reality: Frankly, My Queer, I Very Much Do Give A Damn. Isn’t that…” Aug 12, 22:38
Alan Scott on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Nicola was a great leader. I can’t understand all of this carping and criticism.” Aug 12, 22:32
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: ““you must eat a lot of shit then” Course I do, Confused, I’m Scottish. Don’t you live in Pilton, or…” Aug 12, 22:31
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “@ Marie says: 12 August, 2025 at 8:23 pm “No one makes up more Shyte than you Hasbara” Great post,…” Aug 12, 22:04
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “You forgot you are what you eat. Is that you confused again, Confused?” Aug 12, 21:29
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “@ Lorn says: 12 August, 2025 at 8:10 pm “We all carry the can when we elect spineless sock puppets…” Aug 12, 21:27
robertkknight on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “The publishers missed a couple of words off the title… Nicola Sturgeon FRANKLY, WHO CARES?” Aug 12, 21:21
Tartanpigsy on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: ““ TURABDIN says: 12 August, 2025 at 6:40 pm EXTRACTED FROM «FRANKLY». The established narrative now, though, is that I…” Aug 12, 21:02
Big Jock on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Why would anyone read the memoirs of a serial liar? You have to cast doubt on every single anecdote you…” Aug 12, 20:44
Confused on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “You forgot about EATING THE ENGLISH – that is my favourite plan. You would have to hang the meat for…” Aug 12, 20:39
Lorn on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “They all knew it was illegal (and immoral and anti female human rights), Liz. Yet, they pressed on with it…” Aug 12, 20:35
Lorn on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “The actual truth is that most ‘trans’ offenders are in prison for sex offences and many of them declared themselves…” Aug 12, 20:25
Lorn on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Hatey: no one is saying that they must carry the entire can for all that has gone wrong. Don lt…” Aug 12, 20:10
Lorn on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “I did not say she didn’t know the difference between a girl and a boy. I was referring to the…” Aug 12, 20:06
