Do rape-crisis centres exist to support rape victims, or to validate the beliefs of gender ideologues? This was the question at the heart of a recent UK tribunal ruling.

This week, it was revealed that the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) turned away rape survivors who were suspected of disagreeing with its trans-activist chief executive’s views on gender. Women who wrote to the ERCC to ask about women-only services were classed as bigots and had their communications stored in a folder called ‘Hate emails’.

All this came to light thanks to staff member Roz Adams winning her case for constructive dismissal against the ERCC. A panel of judges found that a ‘heresy hunt’ was launched against her because she ‘did not fully subscribe to gender ideology’, unlike ERCC management, which ‘wished to promote it in the organisation’. The targeting of Adams was instigated by what the employment tribunal described as the ‘invisible hand’ of Mridul Wadhwa, the transgender head of the ERCC.