Inside the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre scandal

Roz Adams is not a public figure. She is not on social media. Yet this hardworking rape crisis support worker has found herself at the centre of the Scottish gender wars over the last few months, due to her employment tribunal against the beleaguered Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC). It all makes for a rather harrowing tale.

Adams was constructively dismissed from her former position at ERCC in 2023, after a lengthy period of discrimination and harassment from colleagues. She takes the view that when a woman approaches a rape crisis service requesting a female counsellor, she should be assured that this is what she will receive. This was not a controversial stance to take in rape crisis services until relatively recently – until under Mridul Wadhwa, ERCC became a place where such views became verboten.

Wadhwa, who identifies as a trans woman, was controversially hired as ERCC’s CEO in 2021 and has repeatedly come under fire from feminists for pushing gender identity beliefs into the Scottish rape crisis sector.