Counsellor Dismissed From Rape Centre for ‘Gender Critical’ Views Is Compensated Almost £70,000

A counsellor who was constructively dismissed by a rape crisis centre in Scotland for holding so-called “gender critical” views has called for “meaningful change” and a clear “definition of woman” as she was awarded nearly £70,000 damages. Counselling support worker Roz Adams won her claim of constructive dismissal against Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) in May, with the tribunal judge finding she had suffered harassment and discrimination. A tribunal heard that the then-Chief Executive of ERCC, Mridul Wadhwa, a trans-identified man who took office in 2021 and resigned in September, labelled Adams “transphobic” after she said it was important for vulnerable women to know the sex of workers at the centre....